The Sunday Times restaurant critic Marina O’Loughlin delivered a rave review of a much-feted Manchester restaurant over the weekend.
The acclaimed food writer visited Flawd in New Islington, the paper publishing her thoughts yesterday. “The cooking at Flawd is something else,” she gushed, “especially given it’s whisked up on little more than a panini press.” This was also noted in the Manchester Evening News’s own review of the restaurant earlier this year.
Also a bottle shop, the restaurant is known for its ‘low-intervention’ cooking. Using vegetables from its own market garden called Cinderwood in Nantwich, Cheshire, the only gear they have in the tiny kitchen is a pressure cooker and a sandwich press. READ MORE: Award-winning Salford brewery Pomona Island is to open its first pub Much of the food can be out of the ground and on a plate within hours, with the majority of it - though not all - being vegetarian.
They also serve fresh bread from the nearby Pollen bakery. “The food coming out of this ridiculous excuse for a kitchen is glorious, as if key members of a world class orchestra took to busking so that more people could enjoy their genius,” she goes on.
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