SUNSETS, beaches, cocktails, music, even on one occasion a small hurricane, are what I remember best of the Caribbean. Never the food. Sure the fruit at breakfast is just off the tree and the barbecue ...
Reviews
Review: The Lowry spring menu
SPRING has truly sprung in menus across Manchester. You wonder – was there a time before wild garlic was ubiquitous in ever upstart menu? Does the asparagus season get earlier by the year And don’t ...
Review: Iberica’s spring menu
SHOW stealers at a sampling of Iberica’s new spring menu were the veggie dishes. Who would have thought a clutch of baby Chantenay carrots tempura-battered (£5) could prove so beguiling in the company of glass ...
Review: El Gato Negro’s spring menu
A HALF dozen glistening shells on ice, cradling the fleshiest of oysters, topped with pickled cucumber, yuzu juice and ‘green caviar’ (tobiko fish roe infused with wasabi to give colour and spice). The culinary composition ...
Review: Tattu new spring menu
TATTU co-owner Adam Jones tells me, as I bump into him on the way out, that for the first time in its two years of existence he’s completely happy with the menu. Bullshit? Well, no. ...
Review: The new look Eagle & Child, Ramsbottom
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 ...
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 ...