I visited Papa G's for a late lunchtime business meeting with two business colleagues. We had a great Lunch, the food was spectacular, what a refreshing change to find a restaurant in the Printworks that really does offer freshly cooked quality food.

Two of us had the pizza with spicy sausage, I know pizza sounds a bit boring but this was excellent, the base was clearly freshly made and the topping was packed with flavour. This has to rate as one of the best pizzas I have ever tasted.

Our waitress was friendly and attentive and was quick to offer recommendations and advice on the menu. We loved the funky bright decor and friendly staff. This will now be my regular lunch venue when in Manchester on business.

My husband and I dined here at lunch on a Monday prior to a film. The decor and furnishings were very very well done.
The place was quite empty but we were told by the owner that it got very busy at weekends.
The menu was not extensive but very good value for a lunch time.

I had Calamari - beautiful batter - my husband had wings, we shared the two dishes and the wings came with a secret home made sauce which was excellent.
My husband's main of Pizza was light and tasty, my main Souvlaki was beautifully moist and well cooked, balanced with a very tasty tzatzini and sun dried tomatoes. and a flat bread drizzled with oil

We didn't have a desert but I would like to return for an evening meal and try the desert menu.

Our waitress was friendly and offered helpful advice on the dishes, the owner stopped to chat and I suggested he could add stuffed vine leaves and whitebait to his summer menu - which he took on board.

My only negative would be to say that I thought the wine was a little overpriced.my husbands post as Newark 76 gave 3 stars he meant to give 5 but it zapped in 3.
We hope to return with friends for an evening meal.
Well recommended

my wife and I dined at Papa G's at lunch earlier this week. The lunch menu offered a variety of food at a good price and the service was excellant. We were impressed by all our dishes and the calimari was particularly good, I enjoyed my lunch pizza and my wife thought her chicken souvlaki was quite good. The owner came by and talked to us for abit and seemed very interested in our opinions about the food and the service. We enjoyed our lunches and look forward to our next visit.

Myself and a party of friends dined on a Saturday evening approx 8.30pm. Firstly I will start with the positives- the venue itself is stunning, great decor and lighting. Thats as far as the positives go. When the waitress seated our party of seven, she tried to seat us on a table, which would have ben more suitable for a party of four It was way too small, so we asked them to move us to a bigger table. So we had another half an hour wait for this table to be ready. When presented with the wine list, we chose the wines to be told they had run out. We selected another bottle and that had run out also. Not a great start.

When ordering the main course, I ordered the moussaka and the waitress told me she thought the kitchens had just served the last one to another customer. So I would have to pick something else. Which makes me wonder whether it would have been freshly made, or maybe just out of the freezer. Two of my party ordered pizzas, they arrived at the table stone cold. They offered to take them away and reheat them. What arrived back was inedible, tasteless, dry pizza. I could have done a better job at home. One other ordered a pasta dish and again, it was dry, tasteless and had hardly any sauce on it. The worst dish was without doubt the lamb salad, the so called lamb- was crispy pieces of fat. I was really expecting a lovely meal, but was extremely disappointed and would certainly never go back.

The attitude of the staff and the manager when we expressed our complaints was quite frankly appalling. It just seemed they weren't bothered and really didn't care that we were really upset and unhappy with the food served.

My partner and i visistd Papa G's on Saturday 9/01/10. We arrived about 4.30pm and the place wasn't very busy but the waitress chose so sit us right next to some couples that were already dining. Very cosy,the tables are far to close together and i found myself whispering!

After ordering our food our starter came after a short wait only for our main to arrive before we had finished our second mouthful of the starter! The waitress offered to take the main away( lamb shank & crushed potato)and 'keep it warm' but we decided to take it off her hands and eat it while it was hot...........it was luke warm and bland.

We decided not to bother with a dessert and had paid the bill and was out of the door by 5.30pm......not the best hour of my life!

Elaine S

Passing through Printworks on our way Home Saturday Night we Decided to go to Papa G's Wow , 4 year old daughter disappeared straight to the library, , Very welcoming Excellent Friendly Staff and excellent food, would highly recommend as probably the Most child Friendly Restaurant We have ever been to,

Everything Well worth the price and we are still raving about it 5 days later, Thanks Guys,

We had lunch here with friends and we were all made to feel extremely welcome, we have an 8 month old baby and we were pleasantly surprised by the facilities they offered. It is very rare to find an establishment that welcomes children, has wonderful decor, superb staff and great food cooked very well. A little Gem as far as we are concerned we will certainly be returning.

All we can say is wow, we went in Papa G's before a show at the MEN arena and the experience ended up being the highlight of the night.

Food served fresh, not at all what you would expect from such an establishment within the Printworks. The restaurant itself is stunning, and even has a little kids library.

The place serves the best pizzas I have ever seen, huge considering the excellent price and you can just taste the difference from other establishments that use frozen products.

Our Waitress, Cailtlin was charming attentive and more importantly, genuine which is so rare these days but from the interaction with other staff we got the impression they were all like this.

We will be back, next time we will try the house specials which looked great and our waitress raved about.