The Real Food Company

The Real Food Co is situated inside Terminal 2 at Manchester airport departures and it’s the best option you have for food if you find yourself waiting for a plane! Saying that, the food options on offer aren’t exactly an abundance of Michelin starred restaurants or gourmet street food shacks!
Sidestepping the likes of Nero’s and Frankie and Bennys, the Real Food Co does at least seem to offer a a few good options like fresh fruit, cereals and some ‘healthy’ snacks but it’s still at heart a canteen environment catering to quick in and out guests, with full English’s and dishes like Shepherds pie and dried up vege under a hot bulb being the order of the day!
I enjoyed a tasty bacon bap but at £5.50 that was so steep in price that I did feel like I was being asked to climb K2. Coffee was standard coffee shop price and standard in quality The yoghurt is not something I’d advise getting either — it was quite dreadful if the truth be known.
Would I go back? Well it depends on how long I’d be waiting for but it serves a purpose — I guess there’s no real reason on their part to increase the quality or lower the price of the goods on offer if there’s nowhere else to go!

It’s 6am. You’re in Manchester airport. You’re knackered having only had three hours sleep because you left all you’re packing till the last minute the night before and you didn’t actually have any clean t-​shirts which made things even worse. All of this annoyance has happened, and the only thing that will really make things better is a bacon sandwich.
Usually I’d just head to one of the nice cafes in the Northern Quarter. But in Manchester Airport Terminal 1, my only realistic choice is the Real Food Company. It’s a light and bright food area up in the food court above the shops, and it does a kind of breakfast bar thing in the mornings.
I went for a breakfast bap of sausage, bacon and egg, whilst my girlfriend got a couple of eggs on toast. It was all fairly decent, if not a little dry, but then they were serving loads and loads of people so it’s not like you’re going to get a lovingly cooked greasy wonder of a breakfast. At least it was hot.
The worst thing was the price. Over £10 for these two meals with some orange juice felt quite a lot like robbery to me. I was at the airport, what could I really expect.