ORGANIC growth of cities is as passé as Quarters being one fourth of a whole. Nowadays these aspirant hip urban enclaves are dotted across the map in their dozens, it seems. At least First Street, ...
Reviews
Review: The Lawn Club – David Gale’s Grass-tronomic Idyll in the city
By Neil Sowerby GRASS cuttings in your turn-ups, jolly japes playing croquet with a parasol, while girlish cries of ‘Don’t spill the Pimms, cherub’ ring across the sward. That would be the Lawn Club of ...
Saluting the new Dockyard – Spinningfields’ ship really has come in
By Neil Sowerby ONE man’s Deli Po Boy is another man’s doorstop buttie. If a real stevedore turned up at this Dockyard with a healthy appetite after a heavy day’s unloading he might be hard-pressed ...
Review: Neil Sowerby loves NQ newcomer Tariff And Dale
I AM sitting at the bottom of a lift shaft contemplating the delights of bone marrow in an eclair. A first. On my table are the crumbs of scoffed sausage rolls that can best be ...
DISH OF THE WEEK: Halibut, saffron and mussel beurre blanc at TNQ restaurant
Neil SowerbyANTHONY Fielden is one of the city’s unsung culinary heroes – producing beautifully balanced dishes from impeccably sourced ingredients. It makes the Northern Quarter Restaurant a beacon among the burgerlands. I particularly like his ...
Review: Scene – The streets of India come to Spinningfields
By Neil Sowerby SCENE is a huge shiny gastrodome that fits the dining out template of the new Spinningfields – think Fazenda, Iberica, Tattu – with some of the street food folkiness of Thaikun thrown ...
Volta has a Spring in its Step with New Menu
By Lucy Lovell Lunch at Volta had been on my to-do list for far too long, and the glorious spring sunshine was enough to entice me to the laid-back, leafy suburb of West Didsbury. Volta ...
Filthy Cow is alive and kicking – just don’t take it moo seriously!
By Neil Sowerby I DIDN’T expect to like Filthy Cow. I resented that the louche and leftfield Lounge Ten had been replaced by yet another burger bar – and one seeming to out-filthy Almost Famous. ...
Review: Neil Sowerby loves the pizzas and the alternative NQ vibe at Ply
I LIKE the words ‘ply me’. With drinks, with well-thought out cocktails, with an airy, light ambience that puts so many Northern Quarter mock industrial look-alike bars to shame – just Ply me. I thought ...
Review: Cafe Football hits the target with some premier league bar food
By Neil Sowerby ONCE upon a time pro footballers would retire to run a pub where they could frame their international caps behind the bar and sign the odd autograph or two for the passing ...