TICKETS are still available for one of the final – and most fascinating Manchester Food and Drink Festivalevents – Goatober at Koffee Pot, where three of the city’s finest head chefs will showcase how good goat meat can taste.
The dinner at the Northern Quarter eaterie is part of a monthlong nationwide campaign called Goatober, supported by ethical meat champion Cabrito Goat Meat. Their MD James Whetlor (above) is joining forces with Mary Ellen McTague (Manchester Art Gallery Café), Richard Sharples (Hispi Didsbury) and Darren Goodwin (Grafene, city centre), each providing a course
McTague will cook goat shoulder in hay with quince, saffron and cubebs plus air-dried goat ham with fresh goat curd and cauliflower; Sharples follows with kid goat breast, cabbage, gooseberry and mussel dressing; Whetlor with kid goat and salt baked celeriac ‘lasagne’ smoked Peakland White custard and pickled roots; Goodwin closes with sambocade with goat milk sherbet and elderberries.
Elsewhere throughout October restaurants across the UK will be giving a dish of this under-used meat pride of place on their menus. To date, male billy goats, which are a waste product of the dairy industry, have been euthanised at birth.
Cabrito is ending this waste by buying the kid goats from the farmer to rear for meat. First launched in London 2016 Goatober UK saw over 40 restaurants take part and the launch event raised £6,300 for charity Action Against Hunger.
Koffee Pot, 84-86 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. Sunday October 8, 7.30pm. £40. Book here.