Beef tartare on a flattened croissant and a Vimto dessert are among the attention-grabbing dishes at Counter, the theatrical new venue from chef-restaurateur Andrew Sheridan which opens on Monday (9 November) in Manchester city centre . Billed on its website as ‘unapologetically and consciously creative’, Counter mixes and matches ingredients and techniques from around the […]
A former Mersey ferry docked on the Liverpool waterfront is to open as restaurant, bar and events space Daffodil next week following a £3.5m makeover. Formerly MV Royal Daffodil, the ferry plied the route from Liverpool to the Wirral for more than 60 years and is now moored in Canning Dock, close to the Royal […]
A tasting-menu restaurant that combines three of the hottest cooking trends – hyper-localism, Japanese and Middle Eastern cuisine – has launched this summer in Lancaster under the name Now Or Never. Jeff Marshall, a former private and development chef, and his wife Nichola, a keen forager who acts as sommelier and runs the front of house, say […]
A new high-end steakhouse specifically aimed at women is launching in Warrington this autumn, as a challenge to the genre’s traditional red-blooded macho image. Pendergast’s, in the Cheshire town’s cultural quarter, will serve plant-based dishes including celeriac ‘steaks’ and chalk-stream trout alongside a selection of prime cuts of beef, in a chic environment with no […]
Liverpool chef Daniel Heffy, who has returned from a sojourn in Stockholm with a new repertoire of Nordic influences, is to launch a restaurant in his hometown next Thursday (23 March) – named appropriately Nord . Daniel’s introduction to cooking came in galleys as a teenage sea cadet, and he went on to train under legendary […]
Burnley FC may have been relegated from football’s Premier League this month, but the Lancashire mill town will soon have a premier league restaurant if a new “fine dining” venue lives up to its promise. Burnley Council has given a green light to plans to convert a disused Georgian pub, The Waterloo, into a 30-cover […]
