With distressed brickwork and wood panelling, hessian sacks and a range of eclectic chairs and tables it was love at first sight; in no small part due to the American Rock music being pumped through the bar. Two years ago, after decades of fluctuating weight, she decided enough was enough: * She wasn’t going to start a new diet tomorrow.

The result is The Greedy Girl’s Diet, which is packed with more than 100 delicious recipes, and Nadia’s invaluable tips and advice on how to achieve a slim, fit and healthy body. Nadia has taken a very personal approach to weight loss and offers the 'real woman's answer to a happy, healthier, and slimmer body' and the recipes in this book are presented in a fun, easygoing style. The comments are spot on, Mr Joe Orton would have p1ssed himself laughing that Orton Square has been so defiled.My wife monitors calories every now and again when she needs to and we have a fairly good general awareness of how good or bad foods are for us and this book has some recipes in that we have cooked in the past but it has to be said not as many as other diet books. Andrews then London) for 11 years, I started hosting regular parties for friends and that's how I started cooking. Imagine Adventures of A Terribly Greedy Girl as a book written by the illegitimate child of Nora Ephron and Laurie Colwin, dusted with a little Eastern promise.

The final course declared me the winner as the cheese was one of the best cheese plates I’ve had in Manchester, but the baked Alaska, although tasty was a little confused, being soft on the outside and hard in the middle. Every word written in that essay resonated with me - and I've never quite had that before with food writing. Have at least one item of clothing that was made just for you — it will always make you feel better.

A little less oil here, a different cut of meat there; brown rice instead of white, more herbs, spices and colour; and a dessert every day!

We started in the bar, which looks like an American diner and Speakeasy fell in love and gave birth to a strange breed of love child. And I tend to veer towards Asian food — light noodle soups, simple stir-fries, kow mun gai (aka Hunanese chicken and rice). Warmer, dryer and with better lighting but as a consequence all the males will be completely naked and the better lighting means you also see more of what you don't want to see.It arrived in a jar, which would have had me snorting with derision at the daftness of it all had the jar not served the purpose of keeping the smoky aroma firmly in the cocktail until opening the lid.