Taste
Fleetneedle’s Forage: You’re the apple of my eye
As we approach the end of a long, hot summer, most fruit and vegetables are becoming ripe a good few weeks earlier than usual.
Review: Cheese Box, Winter Tarn Dairy, Lake District / Manchester
There’s a card on my wall which sums me up perfectly. A present from my sister, it reads: ‘She just couldn’t behave herself with cheese.’
Food Review: The Libertine, Withington, Manchester
A derelict bank has been given a second life as a bar and restaurant in Withington, Manchester.
Food Review: Luciano by Gino D’Acampo, Alderley Edge
As I travelled to Cheshire’s Alderley Edge to sample the new spring menu at Luciano by Gino D’Acampo, my mind turned to Valentina Harris.
Food Review: Northcote, Langho, Blackburn
I am many things but I am not a good cook.
Food Review: Campagna at The Creameries, Chorlton, Manchester
I’ve always thought that the length of a good lunch should be about the same as a football match: around two hours (give or take a few minutes for injury time and the obligatory half-time break).
Food Review: District, Oldham Street, Manchester
When I booked my tasting menu at Manchester’s District, its website informed me that Discovery (£50 a head) encapsulated ‘a new life in the off-world colonies’ and ‘a new chance in a golden land of opportunity and adventure’.
Food Review: Supper Club, Butcher’s Quarter, Manchester
During the first lockdown, when the great and the good were allegedly being ambushed by cakes, I contented myself with a weekly bike ride to the Northern Quarter and Ancoats in Manchester.
Review: Polish Wine Tasting, The Spärrows, Manchester
Everyone I mentioned this event to reacted with the same quizzical raised eyebrow. “Polish wines?” “Yes,” I said. “Polish wines”.
Food Review: 10 Tib Lane, Manchester
There is a great moment in The Wizard of Oz when, as it starts to snow, the Cowardly Lion remarks: “Unusual weather we’re having, ain’t it?”
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