WE’VE been spoiled for choice with the influx of quality Spanish restaurants into Manchester. Now one of the heavyweights of Iberian cuisine is visiting the city for the first time to cook in the kitchens of Iberica, Spinningfields. It promises to be a real treat.
Quique Dacosta holds three Michelin stars for his ‘Quique Dacosta' restaurant in Denia and one Michelin star at ‘El Poblet' in Valencia, with his eponymous restaurant named 39th in the Top 100 Restaurants in the World.
He has accepted the invitation of Iberica exec chef Nacho Manzano to share the stoves with him for the restaurant’s first Nacho & Friends event on Tuesday, May 17. The pair, who hold seven stars between them, will produce a tapas-style seven course dinner with paired wines for an incredible £60 per person.
Nacho’s menu for the evening includes:sea urchins, served with cream, aromatic spices and yoghurt (main picture); soft shell crab; hake salad with hollandaise sauce and dried eggs; roasted apple with rosemary cream and cloud of cider.
Quique’s menu for the evening includes; ashes rice (from El Poblet menu); crushed tomatoes (from Quique Dacosta); lemon Fish (from Quique’s casual dining restaurant Vuelve Carolina)
To book tickets for this event, email mailto:[email protected] or call 0207 636 8650.
Iberica, 14-15 The Avenue, Spinningfields, M3 3HF. 0161 358 1350.
Meanwhile, Iberica have just launched their new Leeds branch in the beautiful Grade II listed Hepper House (above). The safe, which played a big part at Hepper House during its time as an auction house, is now serving as a drinks cabinet for Iberica’s finest spirits.
The new Iberica also contains La Bodega, a deli and wine bar offering light bites.