Bunny Jacksons and Crazy Pedro's team to revive Northern Quarter favourite
21.09.2022 - 20:48
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The crew behind bars like Bunny Jacksons and chaotic pizza establishment Crazy Pedro’s are to revive a favourite Northern Quarter haunt. Liquor & Burn on High Street is being extended into the next door unit, where the Convenience Store bar was, and will re-open for business this weekend.
Also planned is a new ‘upscale’ bar upstairs, in the unit formerly housing the original Almost Famous burger bar, and a potential ‘pop-up’ revival of the infamous tiki bar Keko Moku. “That building, I think, is the coolest spot in the Northern Quarter,” Liquor & Burn’s new owner Lyndon Higginson told the Manchester Evening News.
Higginson is involved with all manner of bars across the city, from Bunny Jacksons and sister bar Junior Jacksons, the dive bar on Oldham Street, to other projects like Pedro’s, The Liars Club and Junkyard Golf. However, he started his career as the bar manager of Keko Moku, back in the early 2000s.
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“That little bar, which was my first manager’s job, I thought was the best bar in the country at the time,” he went on. “It’s where my career started, so it’s a nice full circle. That building can tell a lot of stories! It’s so nice to go back to it. We’ve knocked through into the space where Convenience Store was, so the space is bonkers.
“We’ll tweak things a little bit, but keep the food as it is, though we’ll refine the burrito menu, and make the taco menu twice as big. We’ll also start doing two for one margaritas all day, every day. There may well be the return of Keko Moku too, as a pop-up here and there, dress the place up.”
Meanwhile upstairs, where Almost Famous was, Higgingson is planning a new cocktail bar called Super Deluxe.
“That’s going