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 ...
Reviews
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 ...
Buzzing with the cuttlefish bumblebees – afternoon tea at the Yang sing
By Neil SowerbyWITH The Yang Sing promising to unveil an exciting new project, a Chinese Tea House, “the first of its kind here in the UK outside of London” in time for the Year of ...
Beers and beards at Victoria swimming baths - it can only be IndyManBeerCon
By Neil Sowerby I BLAME powerful potions like Delta Red Disorder, an Italian brewers 8.6 per cent take on a super-hopped imperial red ale or maybe my final brew at IMBC (Independent Manchester Beer Convention, ...
Further south of Little Italy Neil Sowerby reviews Solita Didsbury
WELCOME to the Widowmaker. Not a phrase you might associate with leafy Didsbury, but then Solita is bringing NQs take on dirty food to the burbs on the site formerly housing Cibo and, before that, ...
4244 Reviewed: Aumbry Transfers Triumphantly To The Northern Quarter
By Ruth Allan AUMBRY chef Mary-Ellen McTague has moved her tabernacle of fine English dining to a pop up space in the back of Teacup on Thomas Street. Strangely, things look much the same: there ...