IF you don’t make haste you won’t get to taste David Gale’s revamped menu at The Lawn Club until March! They are closing for a couple of weeks to rearrange the ‘luxury garden shed’ bar ...
Reviews
Brassica, Heaton Moor – just what I’d love as my neighbourhood restaurant
By Neil Sowerby HEATON Moor holds a fond memory – for the one occasion I was the lovely companion of a food critic. Usually I’m the one requesting to be accompanied. It’s a bit like ...
Review: Aamchi Mumbai – Beautiful Bollywood Bites in Cheadle
By Neil Sowerby I AM gazing out on a floodlit Gateway of India from the roof terrace of the Taj Hotel, at a reception for Bollywood starlets. I am equally dazzled by the buffet, which ...
An early look at The Abel Heywood – Woozy Boozer and Boutique Bolthole
By Neil SowerbyI BLAME Beer Studio’s 6 per cent Arctic Blonde for my rambling take on the classic palindrome: ‘Able was I ere I saw Elba’. I had dropped in for a look around the ...
Neil Sowerby takes lunch at Volta and is quietly electrified
PEANUT Butter and Milk Chocolate Stout makes a perfect partner for Ox Cheeks Braised with Orange Zest and Star Anise. Just as a much smaller glass of La Gitana manzanilla sherry, fresh and saline, hits ...
Hold Fast As The Submerged Northern Quarter Gets Nautical But Nice
By Neil Sowerby 'AROUND The Northern Quarter In 20 Identikit Bars' – a tragic tale but true. Every week a new shipwreck – or at least a floundering concept. Packing in the punters, yes, but ...
Neil Sowerby, almost rum-free, reviews Revolucion de Cuba
HEY caramba, it’s not every food review you come away with a pair of maraccas and a natty straw hat. Perhaps the raucous build-up to Christmas, when all around you are in Bacardi-fuelled Havana heaven, ...
Neil Sowerby checks out Tampopo’s winter menu (and support for landmine charity)
I REMEMBER eating in the original Wagamama within weeks of it first opening just around the corner from the British Museum. Back then in 1992 such pan-Asian canteen style dining seemed revelatory. Two decades later, ...
4244's Christmas Menu - Can NQ Pop-up deliver the gourmet goodies?
By Neil Sowerby WHEN is a Christmas dinner not a Christmas dinner? That’s a question of expectations. It is no crime to abjure the turkey on steroids with the texture of sawdust or consign the ...
Neil Sowerby samples new Cloud 23 cocktails with a Manc message
LONG ago, well eight years, when the Beetham Tower first soared above the Manchester skyline it all felt a bit Lord of the Rings to this correspondent. Surely Lord Sauron was up there ready to ...