Went to the Manchestrer Livebait on Friday evening, 19th Nov 10, at 6-30pm. We both had the fish soup to start, which was a nice soup base but there was not a single piece of fish init. My wife had the cod with crushed new potatoes. The skin of the cod was soft which I would have expected to be crisp since it was roasted. Underneath was the smallest amount of potatoes that the whole dish looked like a small starter. I had the fish and chips, and I have to say I have had much better from take away chip shops. The fish tasted like it had been cooked in old oil. The chips consisted of about 5 or 6 normal sized chips and the rest were bits and scraps that ...  Read the complete review

Worlds worst ever customer service. Don't waste your money. They were not interested when i tried to complain.

Until I was searching online I had no idea that Livebait had a branch in Manchester; I once went to the Waterloo branch about ten years ago and had a thoroughly splendid evening - possibly something to do with seeing not only Marc Almond devouring a lobster but wishy-washy Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes dithering over the menu (they weren't together as far I know but with old Hughsie's admissions recently maybe I'm wrong…) I had almost forgotten about Livebait, though, until last week when I needed to book a meal in Manchester at short notice. Manchester is a city I vaguely know but don't get to that often so I had no starting point. An online search threw up ...  Read the complete review