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 ...
Reviews
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 I resented that the louche and leftfield Lounge Ten had been replaced by yet another burger bar – and one seeming to out-filthy Almost Famous.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 ...
Review: Open up a whole new world of wine with Chorlton’s Cellar Key
WE at Taste of Manchester really appreciate the Return Of The Wine Bar. The city centre is now blessed with Salut and Bistrovin, while West Didsbury’s Wine and Wallop is a terrific wine (and beer) ...
Southern California street food hits the groove at The Beagle
THE Beagle in Chorlton has rarely stood still with its food offering and its latest hot streak is for ‘Southern Californian street food flavours and Calexican classics’. Using a fusion of American, Mexican and Korean ...
Neil Sowerby reviews tapas at Iberica – A Spectacular Spanish fantasy
UNLESS you are centring your Spanish dining experience on a whole suckling pig from snout to tail or the kind of communal paella that encompasses rabbit chunks, a shoreful of shellfish and a paddy field’s ...
Review: The thrill of Gourmet grilled cheese (you tasted it here first)
WE here at Taste of Manchester read with a certain lipsmacking amusement about the imminent arrival in Soho of the UK’s ‘first’ gourmet grilled cheesed bar, purveying ‘New York-style’ upmarket toasties to the glitterati – ...
REVIEW: EASY FISH, HEATON MOOR, NEIGHBOURHOOD TASTE OF THE SEA
By Neil Sowerby SOME suburban stretches, West Didsbury and Chorlton spring to mind, seem to have offered enticing clusters of bars and eateries almost since time began – or at least since foodieness first burgeoned ...