AUTUMN is Taste of Manchesters favourite eating out season helped not a little by the availability of some amazing game and the increasing number of chefs handling it well.
Few places treat this succulent resource as well as the Hearth of the Ram www.hearthoftheram.com, Ramsbottom (Michelin Bib Gourmand, Good Food Guide listed and Food Pub of the Year in the 2013 Manchester Food and Drink Awards).
So we have big expectations for their Gourmet Game Dinner on Thursday, October 30. There are a few tables remaining for the seven courser cooked by chef Abdulla (Naz) Naseem (details below).
Wild Duck Liver Parfait, Sweet Potato Crisps; Warm Carpaccio of Inglewhite Venison Pumpkin Purée, Horseradish Gel, Liquorice & Port Reduction; Breast of Bowland Partridge, Wild Mushroom & Truffle Risotto, Marsala Sauce; Seared Breast of Quail, Quail Egg, Black Pudding Bon Bon, Game Jus; Roast Breast of Cumbrian Grouse Grouse Leg Confit & Black Pudding Wellington, Game Chips, Savoy Cabbage, Bread Sauce; Vanilla Panna Cotta, Autumn Berry Compote, Marinated Cherries; Stichelton, Walnut & Cranberry Scone.
The Seven Course Gourmet Tasting Menu costs £55.95 a head; for Seven Fine Wine Pairings add on £49.95 each.
Hearth of the Ram, 13 Peel Brow, Ramsbottom, Bury, Lancashire BL0 0AA. 01706 828681. www.hearthoftheram.com.
Neil Sowerby
