Fuel

Best place in Withington for a drink out!
I am a big fan of the décor in Fuel, it is interesting, quirky and unique. The also serve a great combination of real ales and craft beer more typical of the northern quarter or Chorlton.
I know they are also a very highly rated vegetarian café and so will 100% be coming back here for lunch and/​or a coffee.

Cool veggy place with food good enough to eat for us meat eaters too! Have been on many occasions for breakfast. Very tasty indeed!

A hip location at the centre of withington that offers a range of quality food and drink for the money. The décor is wild as is the music which attracts a lot of interesting folk including many young students. There are often events, live music but I go for the Vegan Meze made by the great chefs that really seem to put the extra effort into everything to help stand out from the rest. Its not perfect and I would hope they put the fruits of there success towards smoothing out some of the finer details of the place but overall the majority will have a great time at this venue.

Fuel me up!
This place is great. A veggie café/​bar serving really tasty food in a cute and quirky café. There’s also music nights put on upstairs.
I had a halloumi ‘fish finger’ sandwich which was really tasty. It came with some salad and some excellent hand cut chips. I was a happy woman.
My friend got a big bowl of regular and sweet potato chips with a houmous dip and sweet chilli dip. Again, excellent.
I found the food good value and the booze about standard. A bottle of Rekorderlig is £3.80. My halloumi and chips was £5.50.
They also do a really good (but hard) pub quiz on Wednesday with free chips!

There has been a veggie /​vegan café in this site for over 20 years. It used to be called ⁶⁰⁄₄₀. It’s current guise as fuel is an excellent

Good place for a drink/​lunch. Really nice food– always good quality and service. Not much selection though, could do with a menu change.

What do you call it when you have a mistress, but you’re a straight woman? A mister? Anyhow, whatever the word may be – Fuel is it for me. When I am not home around meal time my man knows that this is where I am likely to be.
As a vegetarian Fuel has fulfilled my affordable-​meets-​quality choices fantasies. You can dine in, and you can get take away. If it’s a night where there is music happening upstairs it might be a little loud and less cozy, but if you time it right then it’s also a nice place to sit down for some romance.
The staff here is friendly. I have pretty high customer service standards and, I’ll be honest, Manchester hasn’t really tickled me in that regard since moving here a couple of months back. However, this place ticks all those boxes.
Fave mains so far are:
Veggie fish and chips. I love you genius person who decided to make fried cheese «fish.»
Goats Cheese and field mushroom ciabatta.
Starter of choice: spicy sweet potato wedges are delish.
Working my way through the rest of the menu. Say hi if you see me. I’ll be the short blonde in the corner with five meals in front of me.

Great Vegan breakfast.
Pros: Quality food and lots of it plus very good value. We haven’t tried the rest of the menu but it looked good with lots of Vegan options including desserts. The staff were very friendly.
Cons: I’m all for «shabby chic» but it is bordering on «tatty» plus the toilets were minging. The jazz muzak also gets very annoying.

Great place. Especially love the pub quiz on tuesdays. Richard and Ed Barry are legendary, seriously, these guys should have their own TV show, cabaret, band, you name it.
I’ve never had food here although I’m told it’s really good, especially if you’re a meat-​eater that wants to kick the habit. I love the beer selection (Dobber & Lagonda ftw), it is a bit pricey however (£4 for a local Manchester pint, but also £4 for a 12 oz american craft beer). But yeah, definitely worth it!

I’m not a Vegetarian but in summer I do tend to eat more healthy :))
I shared a mezze plater (there was loads of grilled halloumi, delicious hummus, homemade red cabbage cole slaw, qualitative green & black olives, grilled courgette, goat feta cheese and salad!). They served it with sweet potato wedges and sour cream AND additionally per person a whole brown pita bread. Wowzer!
All this for approx. £11!
Lovely and cute place /​quite alternative or even hipstery but I really enjoyed having my first time lunch with my boyfriend.
Recommend it!

One word: mediocre. Two words: spicy beans…
Last words: yr spicy beans were tasteless and yr food is boring.

Love it here, great vegetarian food and nice relaxed atmosphere. Service is friendly. Like the quirky feel. Will be back.

Not eaten here ever but always a good stop for a drink and live music. It’s very relaxed, friendly and there’s always something going on. They have a good selection of drinks and some good drink deals! Double Spirit and a mixer comes in under £4 which isn’t bad.
I find it quite hippy-​ish in there but I am a bit hippy-​ish myself so that’s ok! Not for people who like a more formal and dancey night out; it’s definitely an alternative place and being in Withington it’s not all that studenty either.
The toilets aren’t the nicest but I don’t go in there to exclusively use the toilet… obviously. It’s a good solid drinking destination; check out if they’ve got any live music going on before you drop by as their upstairs space is fun and intimate… like the band is playing in someone’s living room.

A hidden gem well worth getting the bus out to the suburbs for this slice of veggie heaven.
Gorgeous, fresh food (I especially love their falafel) and a lot of variety. Large drinks menu and relaxed, informal atmosphere means you could stop by any time and feel welcome. Various themed nights throughout the week means there’s always something fun going on upstairs. A firm favourite

Talk about flogging a dead horse. What more can I really add here that hasn’t been said before?
First of all, some context. I am a hungry carnivore. I love meat. Like a shit ton. So the very thought of going to a vegetarian café feels very much like a betrayal to my finer meat eating side. If there was ever anywhere though to convince me that vegetarian establishments aren’t all *that* bad, then Fuel is the place.
Happily situated slap bang in the middle of Withington village, Fuel is easy to find and even easier to kill a few hours in, with comfy chairs and tables and free wifi. What started as a stop for a drink and potentially some breakfast, ended up as an epic sit in, with some web surfage and a quality skype conversation thrown in for free.
I partook in a hot spiced apple drink to start with, something I’ve not seen too frequently since my jaunt stateside last year; not being a coffee drinker often leaves my choice limited to either coffee or tea, so it made a nice change to have a different option, especially one so good.
After umming and aahing long enough about whether or not to eat for the main menu to come available at midday, I decided to have a fake fish finger sandwich — imagine a real one but with haloumi fingers in place of the fish ones and you’re there — with a side of sweet potato wedges. The food was fresh, served quickly and most importantly was delicious, I almost didn’t even notice I wasn’t eating meat.
They saved the best for last; the milkshakes. I don’t really like swearing in reviews, especially not twice, but HOLY SHIT, those milkshakes are incredible! Check out the picture I’ve uploaded — that pint of malteser milkshake goodness happily fed two, and was good enough for us to punish ourselves with even after scoffing all the aforementioned greatness.
Fuel then is somewhere that happily caters for the veggies yet is good enough for us meat eaters to turn a blind eye to their wicked ways. Get in!

Another update for Fuel? Another five star rating? Am I boring you, Unilocalers? I do apologise. If you wish to snooze through the following transmission I fully understand, but should you choose to, then know that you will miss out on OMG SPLAWSOME FTW. For the very first time I was having a main meal at Fuel. A proper dinner. Not a snack, not a smoothie. Why? Everyone I know is a cow-​hide biting carnivore and refuses to come to a vegetarian restaurant with me. I know, the sods. Should I come into a windfall, I may well buy new friends, then pay for their plastic surgery so they’ll look just like my old friends.
I digress. My mother eats meat, but she appreciates a veggie meal just as much as she enjoys some roast chicken. So she was the perfect Fuel guest. On a lazy Saturday noon, we stopped off here before she was due to get her train back to Liverpool, ordered some of their fine coffee (which I have decided is the best coffee in all of Manchester — and they gave us a pot of hot steamed milk with our Americanos which just makes them even brillianter) and perused the menu. After much deliberation and peering over at other diners’ breakfasts with a mixture of intrigue and trepidation (those things are HUGE, people), I went for the blackboard special — stuffed peppers with cous cous and a Mexican side salad. My interest was piqued as to what the salad would contain. My mum opted for the ‘fish’ finger sandwich, and we had their mixed sweet and normal potato wedges between us.
So, the ‘fish’ finger sandwich, huh? You’re curious, I can tell. Well, in the immortal words of one Charles Sheen, WINNING! They use breadcrumbed halloumi, served with homemade tartare sauce on a wholemeal granary bun with a delicious side salad. I of course tasted this. Seriously, if you have any doubts, even really big ones, you’ve got to order it. It works. It works like a dream. My baked stuffed peppers with fruity cous cous and a salad below containing kidney beans, red peppers, spring and red onion was an absolute treat too. Nobody wanted to kiss me afterwards, but that was fine. I didn’t need human contact. I had epic salad.
Fuel just keeps getting better every time I try something new, and I’m insanely lucky to have it a mere short stroll down the road. I promise I’ll never take it for granted.

Myself and the lass popped to fuel the other day for some munch, and were not disappointed in the slightest!
The place is lovely, and typical Withington, with a quirky kitsch interior and some mismatched furniture to boot.
The food was excellent too, and as its vegetarian this came as something of a shock to me given my carnivorous habits. My ho had a veggie chilli burrito which she was happy with but not raving about. I, on the other hand, put away a gorgeous halloumi pitta with chips and cous cous for a mere five pounds something.
On top of this, the drinks were great. The Cruzcampo was crisp and appropriately glassed, and the pear cider was unusual and tasty.
Plus, a quiz was beginning as we departed and the questions sounded good. You cant ask more than that from a quiz, and I couldn’t possibly ask more than this from a vegetarian café.

I was surprised when I was first introduced to this venue in Withington — it would certainly not be out of place in Chorlton or the Northern Quarter. But the fact that I, like Sam, would endure a bus ride out of town to visit Fuel certainly says something about it.
I’ve been to a couple of live music events here, and I’ve never been disappointed. Each time there was a great atmosphere — entry was free, beer was plentiful, the upstairs room was packed full of cool types and the music was awesome and importantly at a volume where the ability to lip-​read friends’ drink orders is not necessary.
After reading these reviews I feel there is so much I’m yet to experience — Oreo milkshakes, sweet potato wedges? Yes please! Thank you fellow Unilocalers for your hearty recommendations — a re-​visitation to Fuel is now on my agenda.

Does what is says on the tin and nothing more really.
A affordable student aimed café/​take away in a student rich area.
Turn up refuel, leave.
No expectations– no disappointments.

Fuel Café bar is a great place for uni students and young professionals to hang out and do little more than watch the world go by and chit chat the afternoon evening away– sound fantastic to me.
This is definitely a place for young chicks and dudes to relax and unwind. The menu is by no means extensive but what they do serve is good — all that matters in the end.
I would definitely recommend this place for a great cup of coffee or as a hang over cure/​hangout. Really decently priced– what more could you want!