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A SPACE FOR THE COMMUNITY

The Old Abbey Taphouse re-opened in October 2016 as a STEAM (that's Science Technology Engineering Arts and Maths) focused hub in a pub. 

The first stage is finished - to open as a functioning pub serving food and drinks and hosting great events which bring together the community.  Just a few highlights of this year are hosting a BBQ for Reel Mcr - which brought together all the local residents who used to live next to the pub in the Greenheys Estate, working with Hulme Community Garden to put on a family festival, 10 STEAM events culminating in a STEAM Maker's led by Dr Jana Wendler, having a class full of local school children down to help us plant our garden and lots of lots of Live Music.

Upstairs we have completed the rehearsal room, recording studio meeting room space and most recently Wellbeing Room.

Alongside this we have been developing our outdoor space.  From the start we have been proud to be home to Farm Lab - innovative community project led by Dr Erinma Ocho - which grows exotic mushrooms and teaches people how they grow.  Over the summer we developed more seating and completed our out door stage.

With support from UMIP Just Social at the University of Manchester we will be launching as a Social Enterprise.  Through this we will be running projects which encourage localism, circular economies, arts & music, wellbeing and STEAM.  Basically we want to become  a networking space helping to facilitate creativity in the local community!  We are DIY people and we want to help anyone who has a project and needs some people power behind them. 

FOOD

We have an exciting menu that offers something for everyone.   We specialise in making real Italian Style Stone Baked Pizza.  Our pizza dough recipe follows authentic Italian methods.  We use the finest Italian Pizza dough which we hand-knead and then proof for 3 hours.  We want to cater to as many tastes as possible - hence we offer the option to make all our pizzas Vegan. 

For those Gluten-Intolerant we make a really good Vegan Chilli or lovely fresh Salads which are prepared in a separate area to the pizzas.

DELIVERY

We deliver our hand-made stone baked pizzas to the local area.  We offer Vegan, Veggie and Meat options - meaning everyone can eat together!  Order online now by clicking our menu above.
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Sustainable

We use Electric Bikes to do the deliveries and use Biodegradeable Plastic Cups and Straws for our milkshakes and Smoothies. 


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Vegan

We have a wide selection of Vegan Icecreams sourced from Gold's of Wigans.

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CATERING

We offer catering on and off-site.  Our buffets offer a mixture of Mediterranean and Italian classics served alongside Pizzas.  We can cater for most budgets so why not drop us an email.
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We also do a great Caribbean BBQ.
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Or if there is something else you had in mind our chefs have extensive experience in Vegan & Meat dishes and are always up for making something a bit more out of the ordinary!

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EVENTS

GET INVOLVED

We have a really wide and varied selection of events on every week.  Wether you fancy playing some board games, getting involved in a jam or learning how to make wine! 

We have designed the space to be flexible and multi-use.  We have years of experience putting on gigs, events, festival and shows of all sorts, our passion is supporting our local art and music scene.  If you have an idea for an event you'd like to host at The Abbey please get in touch theoldabbeytaphouse@gmail.com


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