Cosy Club

This place seems to be a new addition to the corn exchange, it has a warm welcome and some nice décor!
After walking up the first set of stairs, there was a number of comfy chairs and pillows (probably where it’s name comes from) I didn’t investigate the room fully but I’d assume that’s a bat area.
I had a meal their, essentially a Philly cheese steak, this was a great cut of meat and I thoroughly enjoyed it. A friend of mine got fish and chips, which seem’d a bit greesy, so I’d suggest to avoid that.
Other than that, great service, good location and food on my part was nice!

The Cosy Club is one of the newer additions to The Corn Exchange, a phrase I use lightly considering it is probably over 6 months old now, and already has 10 reviews on Unilocal,before publishing mine.
Cosy Club can be reached through going through the outside entrance, although it does have views from the balcony of The Corn Exchange, you can’t get to it from the inside part, and just cut through the restaurant.
The lift here is much better than Zizzi next store, and is a better lift, instead of a «Stannah stairlift» type one, although it still wasn’t perfect, being really slow (I admit they was 30 stairs) and also made some funny noises, to the point I thought I was stuck in it, only for it to open, just before pressing the alarm button!
One of my main reasons of visiting Cosy Club was receiving a recommendation of their gluten free menu, the staff told me about this, and they had both gluten free and vegan menus. The menus were not massively impressive, however they did have bread and burger buns which was good, but apart from that they was just tweaking other dishes, for example the breakfast didn’t have gluten free sausages of any kind!
I decided to sit in the restaurant area, which has nice views of Exchange Square, opposite the Arndale and the new metrolink station, I do prefer the view of the Corn Exchange, which is a nice area, but as that is more of a bar type, I decided to sit in the «restaurant part» as it would be better to just eat there.
This is quite a big place in general, they have tried to keep some of the buildings original features, as it was built in 1903 such as the walls, which was nice, as well as adding their own twist onto the space.
The service here seemed quite slow, it took about 20 – 25 minutes to get my food, which shouldn’t of taken that long, to the point I guess they run off to Morrisons to get some gluten free bead, but still they should have warned me about the wait, waiting this long for a breakfast is still quite poor.
It is quite a pricy place too, especially on certain «sides», «dishes», and «drinks» with my Watermelon iced tea costing £3.75, I admit it was a very nice drink, with a fresh, tangy taste but still the price was still far too much, anything over £3 would have been, and even £3 would have been pushing it, but acceptable as it is a location in Manchester city center.
Now to the food, when it finally arrived, it looked like they had tried to pile too much onto one plate, and although they were some nice things on there, they might have been too much, which kind of makes it a less classier place, and more of a «Greasy spoon» type restaurant, although it wasn’t like that, with the baked beans being presented in a pot, it just gets rid of the class a bit, especially with a «leaning tower of scrambled egg» as it was propped up by the mushrooms.
The portion of eggs were unbalanced, as I got lots of scrambled eggs, which were unmixed, meaning some parts tasted good, and some parts bland and awful, and it was a real mix, when they could have just spent an extra 30 sections making sure the balance is better, and the poached egg was simply the size of a stamp, and it was even hard to get a decent taster, with it being a size of a free sample you would get in Costco.
The gluten free bread was quite nice for gluten free, although it was small, but still it was ruined in a way by the butter, which just tasted cheap, poor and low-​quality.
It also come with hummus, the hummus was quite nice and it did taste home-​made, and they was a good portion of it too, which helped go with the bread and the potatoes.
The grilled potatoes is another thing that was unusual to have for a breakfast, and although they were not horrible, they tasted satisfactory infact, they just didn’t taste right and fit in with my breakfast, and they could have been much better in general too.
Overall, most of my meal did taste good /​good quality, but they was certain items that were poor, for example the iced tea was excellent, however the eggs and potatoes, although they were satisfactory could have been much improved, the butter and also the lift situation, taking a long time and being rather unpleasant, I feel I can’t go over 3 stars.