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NNNNOOOOO!!!!! Ballbag wins
Well i know where i'll be eating next time i'm down in the south west (Nathan Outlaw) but after that i'd rather Elisha's than giving money to preacherman
i couldnt have said it any better myself
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ive ordered most of the substances from MSK myself, they do have a very big variety
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what would you like to know ?
"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
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
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"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
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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
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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
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I think a lot of the chefs have just cooked dishes they do everyday - never mind the competition criteria.
How many would have agreed to do this competition if say just the final was televised.
i agree and i guess it also help fill the reservations dairy too. im really looking forward to seeing jason atherton
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Fair enough and I apologise for my flippant comment that started this exchange.
Turned out nice in the end
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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 .
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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Unless the Moss Nock has had a drastic redo, when I went there with my boyfriend s parents in 1980's it was even then to my completely "Non Foodie" eye well past its sell by date.
I seem to remember it was the custom to frame bills over £100- or am I imagining that? Long, long time ago........, must get back to my zimmer frame!!
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Unless the Moss Nock has had a drastic redo, when I went there with my boyfriend s parents in 1980's it was even then to my completely "Non Foodie" eye well past its sell by date.
I seem to remember it was the custom to frame bills over £100- or am I imagining that? Long, long time ago........, must get back to my zimmer frame!!
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Who said I was a 'Foodie'? If anyone said that to my face I'd punch 'em in the nose
I actually live in Harrogate, I lived in Alderley Edge for a year 2006/2007 and struggled to find anywhere worth eating, all the places you mention appeal to their local market, who wouldn't know decent food if it hit them in the arse, the two I am more than familiar with (Alderley Edge Hotel and London Road) are the kind of over priced, under performing places you expect to find in affluent suburbs. Stanneylands has, I'm sorry to say, a pretty poor reputation locally, I'm sure things have changed recently, but news hasn't filtered through yet to the locals.
As for Mancunian closterphobia (whatever that is) It's nothing compared to the suburban claustrophobia you appear to be suffering from. I travel to find good restaurants, and always make the effort to seek out places worth trying wherever I happen to be.
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 .
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This week, I wonder if the culinary thunder is ever going to begin (with apologies to Morrissey).
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????
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There's hardly anything in Styal or Wilmslow, in fact nothing I can think of off hand.
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
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Manch doesn't need to beat itself up over lack of stars, no, but i still its non-'michelin' star restaurants never wow me either. the problem with the city for me is that i keep hearing about great places to eat so i go there only to come away disappointed.
if i go to nottingham or birmingham for example, it's easier to be impressed because nothing's been oversold to me in the first place.
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.
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i must agree, went there for lunch about a year ago, good food but no fireworks indeed.
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we are walking distance from wilmslow train station and i think theres hourly connections from manchester piccadilly
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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
i will eventually get to stanleylands - have you got a new menu yet? This is just a flying visit hence being confined to City centre......... Not sure i can stomach red chilli at 6pm so looks like it will be grado for now... -
stanneylands restaurant in stanneylands hotel, wilmslow
ote=thom,Feb 26 2008, 01:49 PM]
on my experience, it fits the bill, but it isn't really much good.red chilli is not that far from the train station either, though obviously likely to be a more substantial bite.
there's the danish place on the corner of picadilly gardens too, KRO, that might work in a light bite stylee
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
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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.
Ok. I'll start on my doorstep in Glossop:Old favourite for a kick-off - (Mettricks Butchers)
A wonderful, wonderful butcher which has twice won awards for the best butchers shops in the UK (One from Radio 4, one from Meat Trades Gazette!). Fantastic, passionate family, working with local farms to produce the best possible meat. They still have their own small abbatoir and home-kill all their animals, and home-cure they own bacons and make their own sausages. Their High Peak lamb in particular is fantastic and recently won a North West Fine Food Award ahead of the more famous Lake District Herdwick lamb.
Next, a really local one (to me at least) - De La Tierra Chocolates
I only found this stuff when it was on sale in the Love Saves the Day deli round the corner from my office in Manchester. Weirdly, it seems to be handmade out of a terrace house about 250m from my front door! The chocolate itself is seriously good, with the dark slabs studded with cherries being a particularly favourite of mine. You chocolate nerds can read all about the beans etc on the website but sourcing from Venusuela (sp?) seems to be the big thing.
Ok, somewhere you can actually eat out next - Dowds Restaurant
The fact that this place doesn't even have it's own website yet doesn't suprise me. Nor does the fact that the reviewing website classes Glossop as being in Cheshire (rather than Derbyshire). This is the sort of restaurant that no-one on here would rave about, but as the review points out in Glossop it IS worth flagging up. Here is a place that is an independent, trying to cook bistro/brasserie style cooking to a decent standard, and every town or neighbourhood should have such a place. Until twelve months ago, we didn't.
Anyway it's actually not bad. As with so many of these places touches on the menu occassionally make you think it's over-reaching, but some of the cooking is decent, and it's cosy enough in a "not trying to hard" sort of way. Oh come on, I know it's not going to have you going there in droves but I cite it as it is the only restaurant of it's type (ie not a 80's style Italian, Indian, Greek etc) for a local population of 40,000+!
Next up, two places just over the hill in Hayfield. Firstly, The Pack Horse.
This place is not some high-falutin dining pub, and the recent refurb may be a bit bland for some (The Star at Harome it is not) but it actually does exactly what you want pub food to do (especially after a day yomping across the moors in the drizzle) and it's a proper community pub to boot. They source from within a ten miles radius, use Mettricks meat, and the chef (ex of the Waltzing Weasel down the road) does an excellent Bread and Butter pudding. Simple pub stodge done absolutely right.
The other good place in town has a terrible name - Grumbleys
Now I have to admit I have not eaten at this place for a while, but when I did it was pretty good. Simple pasta, well cooked, light saucing; it hit the spot. It seems to have developed a bit in the meantime and local word of mouth is great (though the sterling reviews on the website look a bit old now). It's next on my to do list.
I'll try and write up the nearest Michelin star place next - Fischers of Baslow Hall - which has always been highly rated but seems to have loosened up and raised it's game recently. Also, it's related bistro Rowleys is actually excellent with a fine light touch with the cooking and very sensible prices (alas the purple, faux-ostrich skin banquettes). The other relatively recent launch of note is The Walnut Club, which despite having a unexplained monkey on it's website is all kinds of intriguing - great reviews, an ex-Novelli chef, an ambitious and intriguing menu, and a claim to be entirely organic.
Ok, ok the reports so far may not have you actually moving to the Peak District, but should you visit here you'll be glad of this thread damn you!
Cheers
Thom
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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
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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.
The Fat Duck 2008
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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