ernustus

Out of interest, where did you get the Alinea book from? Amazon (both US and UK) have it listed for an October release date? Lee ← pre-ordered it from amazon, 23 pounds. I would wish I had a pre-release copy... ← i ordered a pre release copy last year and i just recieved a pasword and login name which gives acces to pics + recipes + videos and preview pages of the alinea book and its awesome stuff. i cant wait for october when it get released

i couldnt have said it any better myself

ive ordered most of the substances from MSK myself, they do have a very big variety

what would you like to know ? Well done. Of course it would play better if you hadn't been caught out shilling your Restaurant on here in the first instance. You're still doing it on this thread, recommending people try Styal and Wilmslow whilst conviniently forgetting to mention you have your own place down there. Why do it? It's completely counter-productive. Plenty of chefs and operators here clearly flag up their own operations and people have no issue with it whatsoever. You have two rossettes! Be loud and be proud and don't hide your light under a bushel. Cheers Thom ←

"A dark day indeed for Manchester dining. Luckily, I hear everthing is peachy in the foodie-meccas of Styal and Wilmslow." well at least we still hold our 2 rosettes, might mean nothing to you but it looks to be a difficult thing to keep hold of

and now i hear eyck zimmer is leaving the lowry, and i also noticed the lowry lost 1 of their rosettes, another blow for manchester

i foung it amazing that all 3 judges went for toms menu, i reckon his starter mustve tipped it into his favour as everything else just seemed a pile up

i agree and i guess it also help fill the reservations dairy too. im really looking forward to seeing jason atherton

only "foodies" travel to find good restaurants, branding a place by saying it has a pretty poor reputation is not cricket if you havent been for yourself to make up your own mind or maybe you only go and dine at places on other peoples comments and thats only if they are good comments. suburban closterphobia is something i definately not suffer from as my career path has taken me to london for 2 years and also to belfast . ← Come on Ernustus old chap, if I haven't been somewhere, it's reputation is all I have to go on, that's how the world works. If going on other peoples recommendations is a crime, then I'm guilty as charged, as I would imagine is everyone on here. I have no interest in making my own mind up about places other people (whose views I trust) don't like, life is too short to eat crap meals, and the list of places I do want to try grows daily. Any comments I made about Stanneylands came with the rider that I'm sure things have changed recently, reputations take a long time to change, and I'm sure the food you're producing right now is a million miles away from the food that got the place it's reputation. However until some brave pioneer tells the world that Stanneylands is the place to go, I won't be risking wasting my time and money. Anyway, enough bickering, get back in that kitchen and start changing peoples minds ←

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only "foodies" travel to find good restaurants, branding a place by saying it has a pretty poor reputation is not cricket if you havent been for yourself to make up your own mind or maybe you only go and dine at places on other peoples comments and thats only if they are good comments. suburban closterphobia is something i definately not suffer from as my career path has taken me to london for 2 years and also to belfast .

im finding this week very boring, anthony last week i thought was cutting edge modern, but this week i havent seen anything modern at all, what was that prawns with pea puree and carrot foam all about????

shouldnt you as a proclaimed foodie be a bit more knowledgeble about your area? i can think of 39 steps in styal, moss nook restaurant in styal, stanneylands hotel in wilmslow, alderley edge hotel in alderley edge, paul heathcotes london road restaurant in alderley edge, but then again im actually interested whats happening in my area. you should get out more, it can be very closterphobic in manchester if thats the only place you ever go to dine

theres a lot of moaning about manchester city centre dining going on so why not try places on the outskirts (around the airport, styal, wilmslow for example) of manchester instead where there is actually quite a bit going on.

i must agree, went there for lunch about a year ago, good food but no fireworks indeed.

we are walking distance from wilmslow train station and i think theres hourly connections from manchester piccadilly

just finished writing the spring 08 a.l.c. gonna start the spring a.l.c mid march, the winter a.l.c menu is currently on the hotel website under the dining option - and im aware of the heading saying autumn 07 when it should say winter 08 and also loads of spelling errors - but thats what you get if you pay an external company to do your website - a shambles but theres noyhing wrong with the cooking though

stanneylands restaurant in stanneylands hotel, wilmslow ote=thom,Feb 26 2008, 01:49 PM] Red Chilli - Joy. A restaurant so good that it even got Gary to eat pig's maw. Kro Bar - Great for a beer or indeed a drink of any sort, but the food is shocking. Cheers Thom ←

ive been to fischers at baslow hall for lunch about a year ago and out of the 7 michelin establishments ive eaten in , i was the most dissapointed at baslow hall.

im going with my wife to arbutus for lunch tomorrow- 15/11/07. will give findings on my return home from my visit to london and arbutus

had lunch today at anthony`s in leeds for the first time it was very good. chose from the a la carte menu. first arrived a amuse of crispy ham hock with a pumpkin espuma and toasted pumpkin seeds. bread followed - it was good, served with 3 flavoured butters. starter was cured monkfish, bacon cream, toasted hazelnut - very very tasty, did like the bacon cream and the monkfish was so soft and smooth. main course was roast duck breast, chocolate, soya vinaigrette - a very nice and pink duck breast, a smear of chocolate, a deseeded and rolled date, a crispy samosa of the duck wing, all very very tasty. next was a pre-dessert of ginger and pear mousse with a lime foam. my dessert choice was coconut timbale, black sesame seeds, carrot foam. finished with coffee and chocolates, chocolates was very nice and rich. will not hesitate to return.