WE went to admire the new bedrooms and ended up swooning over the food. It should have come as no surprise – Ramsbottom’s Eagle and Child has won ‘Britain’s Best Sunday Lunch’ in the 2013 ...
Reviews
Review: Grand Pacific, Spring Gardens
GARY Neville ‘stole’ my table. Talk about the new pecking order in an old favourite. I should have complained to the metaphorical fourth official, but the gyoza and laksa starters had arrived, the ‘Letfield’ Albarino ...
Review: The Rabbit In The Moon at Urbis
REMEMBER the Glam Rock poodle cut Michael O’Hare once sported? Coupled with a prodigious leftfield culinary imagination, it made him stand out from the crowd on Great British Menu. All those free-form swirls on the ...
Review: Fazenda revisited
SOMETIMES it takes a while for a restaurant to grow on you. Fazenda is a bit like that for this Taste of Manchester critic. Ambience, service and wine list have always been attractive and I’ve ...
Review: Adam Reid's new look lunch at The French
A SERIOUS makeover. You know the phrase. Well, the dining room at The French has had a light-hearted one. Not a frivolous transformation, mind. The food that Adam Reid is serving us at lunchtime has ...
Review: 188 Kitchen and Bar, Whitefield
EASY to get your Skyrs and your Skreis in a twist. The first is that Icelandic yoghurty stuff which has invaded the supermarket cool counters; the second is an even stealthier intruder – delicious wild ...
Review: Refuge Sunday Roasts
ARE you a brunch or a roast kind of weekender? – the sort of question served up in those lazy celeb soundbites in the posh Sundays. I’m neither, as it happens. Not that my shrinking ...
Review: Pasta Factory, Shudehill
A SIMPLE pasta dish for lunch with a glass of wine. Easy to rustle up at home – boil to al dente the Cecco or Barilla, in the shape of your choice, and pour on ...
Review: Bundobust, Piccadilly
IT has become a habit. Purse strings stretched, this time we’ll just do the set lunch… and then can’t resist piling on the extra dishes. Not that such behaviour is going to bankrupt you at ...
Review: The Fusion Lab, Arndale Market
WATCH classical musicians try and play jazz. It just doesn’t work. Ask them to dip into World Music. Even worse. Ditto chefs trained in fine dining kitchens when asked to hang loose and produce street ...