THE Northern Quarter periodically subscribes to a New York vibe. It must be all those Big Apple on the cheap movie location shots it has hosted. Some bars try for it and get it, notably ...
Reviews
Review: Bundobust new menu
NELSON Wang, now there’s a name to conjure with. Not on your radar the Mumbai restaurateur of Chinese lineage who invented Manchurian Chicken in the Seventies? Me neither until an encounter with the Gobi Mushroom ...
Review: Yu, Alderley Edge
DURING a sojourn in Hong Kong I never encountered a deconstructed duck. I saw a man deconstructing several live snakes with a machete and declined the resulting soup. But in the teeming melting pot of ...
Review: Australasia, Spinningfields
AUSTRALASIA was always a loving nod to creator Tim Bacon’s Aussie roots, where Pacific Rim cuisine and fruity New World wine had gradually ousted the old Commonwealth pie and tinny culture. Welcome to the Republic ...
Review: Mr Cooper's, Midland Hotel
IT’S a year since The Midland Hotel’s flagship restaurant was successfully repositioned as Adam Reid at The French following the departure of Simon Rogan. Under the radar during all this went Rogan’s stylishly workaday second ...
Review: Masons at Manchester Hall
BEING flexitarian doesn't mean I'm going to forsake the recommended rump of lamb. After all, I‘ve not taken the holier than thou Veganuary ‘pledge’, merely played the role of fellow traveller in cooking an assortment ...
Out of town: The HInchliffe Arms
THE dish above is quiet perfection – just a light pastry case filled with stewed mushrooms and spinach, then dusted with parmesan. At just £7, it put a marker down for a parade of accomplished ...
Review: Elnecot in Ancoats
IT’S a giant culinary leap of faith from duck hearts in the Northern Quarter to crispy lamb’s testicles in Ancoats. Just as ToM admired the offaly jolly sense of adventure of the Bay Horse’s small ...
Review: Yadda Yadda at Electrik, Chorlton
FLATBREADS, pitta, wraps, what a stodgy approximation to the real thing we find in our bog-standard kebab houses – and that’s before we get to the fillings. You don’t have to be born in Turkey ...
Review: Alston Bar & Beef, Corn Exchange
AFTER dipping into the gin and steak offering that defines Alston Bar & Beef – the best Glaswegian addition to Manchester since Sir Alex Ferguson – this gentleman definitely prefers Tweed. The sylvan valley of ...