A lost Manchester tea room known for 'amazing cakes' was loved in the city centre for generations MENnewsdesk
Situated in St Ann's Passage, the arcade between King Street and St Ann's Square, for decades Meng and Ecker was the go-to place for hot drinks and cake, long before the days when a Starbucks or a Costa dotted every high street. The business was first established over a century ago by two Swiss confectioners, Fleury Meng and Joseph Buchegger - who later changed his name to Joseph Ecker - who came to England in the 1890s.
He told the Manchester Evening News: "The business started in Sunderland before 1900. It was set up by a man called Fleury Meng and I think his brother might have been involved with it and then they set up a partnership in 1900 and that tied into my family. Joseph Ecker married my grandfather’s sister, which would have been my great-aunt."I knew him quite well because he kept very close to the family and I even spent time in Switzerland with him when I was 13-years-old.
"People would order wedding cakes and all kinds of things there. But, for the restaurant itself, there was a door sort of to the side that came off St Ann's Square and you went up a narrow staircase up to the second floor. Ross said, during the war, Joseph also managed to get together a group of people who had "sugar points" to be able to make his parents a genuine wedding cake with real sugar. Ross said: "It wasn't a very big one because there was only five people at the wedding because, that's the way it was during the war."Ross said he also has fond memories of the first time he left England at aged 13 to stay with Joseph in Switzerland.
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