Mad_Cyril Was in Manchester over the weekend for a mate’s birthday. Hit the bars on Peter Street and had a lovely steak dinner and cocktails at Hawksmoor. Superb.

    hawksmoor is superb. especially the sunday roast

    Best sticky toffee pudding I ever did have?

    Rick’s in Tooting, followed by Hawksmoor.

      Grabbed some Chef Smelly’s takeout over the weekend. Half Dungeness Crab, Blackened Prawns, Garlic Noodles. Not the most aesthetically pleasing dish but whew was it good. Love this time of year for the crab alone.

        24 days later

        Off here tomorrow, reasonably new place in the city centre. Situated above St Georges market, which is a great food market if you are ever over in belfast.

        https://www.stockbelfast.com/#about

        Slightly concerned that there are items on the menu containing no potato.

        I’d go for this -

        Slow Cooked & Glazed Beef Cheek in Red Wine, Kale, Roast Onions, Buttered Mash

        Though I’d have to ask for the mash sans butter, obvs.

        You literally cant keep away from the spuds Ed LOL

        Did I ever tell you about the potato song Snr wrote?

        Ended up on a Kenny Everett album and he made £10k.

        Tru fax!

        A family infatuation it seems. Remember the time your old dear reckoned she saw 5 types of potato on a pub carvery menu?

        That was good craic to be fair

        Think it was at someone’s house in Wicklow.

        They served a Sunday roast with 5 different types of mash.

        Grabbed some noodles from a Chinese spot called Huangcheng Noodle House….

        Damn good. Spicy but the noodles are all hand-cut. I’m not sure what that means but they’re fucking good.

        @bosstrabs is Huangcheng an area/province in China? I can’t mind much information.

          jonattonyeah I had to look this up based on the characters, because there are so many homonyms in the Chinese language (many ’huang’s and many ’cheng’s).

          Huangcheng 皇城 is a village in Shanxi Province. The name actually means ‘Imperial City’ so it will have been an important capital of some fiefdom or warlord’s mini empire centuries ago probably. I expect it’s just where the owners are from.

          The noodles look legit, if excessively spiced. Either you dumped a shit-ton of chilli oil in there yourself, or they serve them like that for SF hipster tastes. No-one from anywhere in Northern China is eating that amount of spice in their daily staples, although someone from Sichuan might.

          If they are genuine Shanxi people (as opposed to third generation ABCs bastardising their grandparents’ recipes), G9 and B6 on their menu will be superb.