With the opening of both Manchester House and Mr Cooper’s House and Garden, September is set to be a pretty exciting month for the restaurant scene of Manchester. So exciting, in fact, that the BBC has commissioned a new television programme detailing the city’s race for a Michelin star, an accolade we haven’t had for thirty years. Now that Rogan has arrived at The Midland Hotel with guns blazing, Aiden Byrne (pictured) wants a piece of the action too, and this menu illustrates how he plans shake things up. You’ll notice some old favourites nestled in there, such as prawn cocktail and the infamous Manchester tart, as well as some twisted classics like the frogs legs kiev. Other menus include a 12-course taster at £95, a fixed price lunch for £27.50, or a six-course lunch taster for £50.

Beginning
Prawn cocktail 12.50
Truffle-poached chicken with baby artichokes 15
Frogs legs Kiev 12
Butter-poached langoustines with carrots 12.50
Sea and soil with oxtail 13
Squab pigeon with cherries, pistachio and violet mustard 16
Roasted scallops with pearl barley 18

Middle
Belted Galloway beef and mushrooms (for 2 people) 57
Boddingtons steak and ale pie 24
Roasted cutlet of middle white pork and salt baked pineapple 25
Fire-roasted lamb rack, pine stock and sheep’s cheese 27
Poached lobster tail with smoked apple purée 50
Turbot cooked in fermented cabbage with morteaux sausage 29
Beer can chicken with onion macaroni 24
Wild sea bass, shrimp chorizo and red pepper 26
Belted Galloway Rib-eye 35
Belted Galloway Fillet 38

End
Manchester tart 8.50
Peach, pistachio and milk chocolate 8.50
Blackberry and beetroot cannelloni 8.50
Milk and honey 8.50
Szechuan, lychee and rose 8.50
Granny Smith with maple cream 8.50
Cheese selection 12

Manchester House, Tower 12, 18-22 Bridge Street, Spinningfields, M3 3BZ, Tel: 0161 835 255, www.manchesterhouse.uk.com

Words:
Jess Hardiman
Published on:
Mon 2 Sep 2013