Neil Sowerby Sometimes life does imitate art. The award-winning restaurant that inspired an award-winning novel is now going to feature a dish invented by the author.
Green Tea Shrimp with Nano Lime featured as a canape at a Prestwich Festival event at Aumbry. The recipe sprang from the fertile imagination of Emma Unsworth.
Her Hungry The Stars and Everything (Hidden Gem Press, £7.99pb) has just won a Betty Trask award for Best First Novel by an author under 35.
Itâs about a restaurant critic and an 11-course tasting meal at an aspiring Michelin joint that unlocks the demons in her life.
Aumbry hosted a lunch/reading featuring dishes adapted from the novel and chef/proprietor Mary Ellen McTague announced the green tea shrimp tidbit might become a fixture on the menu.
Accolades
She and husband Laurence Tottingham are no stranger to prizes themselves, having scooped Restaurant and Chef of the Year in the last two Manchester Food and Drink Awards.
The enterprising restaurant in Church Lane is running a series of collaborations with Port Street Beer House. The Thursday, June 21 is sold out but there are tickets available for Thursday, July 26.
A six-course tasting menu has been matched to a specially selected range of fine craft beers, including three from the North West.
Port Street owner Jonny Heyes will be on hand to guide diners through the brews.
Dishes include potato and wild garlic soup, oxtail and kidney pudding and grapefruit posset with celery granita.
Tickets are £65 per person. For full details and bookings call 0161 798 5841. www.aumbryrestaurant.co.uk