TASTE of Manchester has found the perfect Christmas present for the trio behind Bangers & Bacon – the porcine-centric permanent pop-up at The Kitchens Spinningfields – bacon-scented undies.
One of the most talked about news items of the week has been the launch of these specialist briefs by Seattle-based bacon experts, who modestly explain: ‘Marrying the ultimate in comfort and cured meat, J&D’s Bacon Scented Underwear represents the gold standard of meat-scented luxury undergarments.’
Not that B&B’s James and Heather Taylor and Richard Brown (left to right, above) are going to have much time on their hands for prezzie shopping on the build-up to Christmas. On Friday, November 27, they launch an additional venture, the cheekily monickered Well Hung steak diner in the former Yakumama premises across from Bangers & Bacon, the quirky teaming of Bobby’s Bangers and Flavours Found chef Richard – motto “We put the Piggy in the middle”.
Two days later the Well Hung team will also begin a six week, seven days a week residency at Trinity Kitchen’s street food court in the heart of Leeds, serving the menu they have created for Manchester.
“We couldn’t say no to the Leeds opportunity,’’ Richard tells me as I catch up with him and the gang wallpapering the new site after a busy day sausage sizzling and the like across the way.
“Steak is the thing, no burgers, no mince. High end steak sandwiches with home-made flatbreads, fresh salads, home-made sauces such as a Blacksticks Blue cheese one or our own version of chimichurri. There’ll be seasoned fries, truffle and parmesan for example, with home-made aoili or our tomato ketchup with pork belly bits. For puddings cheesecake and chocolate brownies.”
So a New York vibe going on? “Definitely. The look is going to be that, too – bricks, stone, metal. As with Bangers & Bacon we’ll refresh the menu and in our new place we plan to do evening sit down table d’hote Thursdays, Friday and Saturdays, challenging the view of the Kitchens as a place just to gran a quick lunch.”
Sounds fab to us, even as we are saddened by the departure of Yakumama’s Marcello and Hannah who are taking their award-winning take on South American street food to Australia. Good luck to both. Fans of their living wall (pictured below) will be pleased to know it has moved to the Wonder Inn, Shudehill, where coincidentally Bangers & Bacon ran their phenomenal series of chef’s tables for Guerrilla Eats. They just can’r stop cooking.
