What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[clapton is god]

Cracking night out in Manchester last night.

Started at Slug and Lettuce on Deansgate for a couple of scoops. The Peter Kay crowd were passing through and there was a Hen Night parties going on so it was very busy but good natured.

We had a table booked at Las Iguanas (opposite Waterstones) so moved in there at 7.30pm. I'm sure this restaurant has been mentioned in this thread previously but its worth mentioning again. Really, really enjoyed it in there. A lovely place, a great selection of food and drink and expert and friendly staff. I enjoyed the Gambas and chicken fajitas plus a two carafes of some vodka based cocktail shared around the table. Coffee and amaretto to end the meal. Lovely!

Moved on to The Bridge on Bridge Street to end the evening before rolling home around midnight.

Deansgate Manchester was really busy. No comparison with Deansgate Bolton that was totally dead last week. Thousands of people, no drunks, everybody happy and not a hint of trouble anywhere.

[General Mannerheim]

Cracking night out in Manchester last night.

Started at Slug and Lettuce on Deansgate for a couple of scoops. The Peter Kay crowd were passing through and there was a Hen Night parties going on so it was very busy but good natured.

We had a table booked at Las Iguanas (opposite Waterstones) so moved in there at 7.30pm. I'm sure this restaurant has been mentioned in this thread previously but its worth mentioning again. Really, really enjoyed it in there. A lovely place, a great selection of food and drink and expert and friendly staff. I enjoyed the Gambas and chicken fajitas plus a two carafes of some vodka based cocktail shared around the table. Coffee and amaretto to end the meal. Lovely!

Moved on to The Bridge on Bridge Street to end the evening before rolling home around midnight.

Deansgate Manchester was really busy. No comparison with Deansgate Bolton that was totally dead last week. Thousands of people, no drunks, everybody happy and not a hint of trouble anywhere.

It has, and so it should, i love it there and for a chain restaurant, they're about he best.

I always direct people to the Bridge too if they're asking, great pub - was our regular lunchtime haunt when i worked on Deansgate! food in there is vey good also1

[P.O.S.]

Seconded, I like The Bridge too, it's the unoffical office local as well - the official one is Hogs Head but I get sick of heading straight for there anytime there's a works do, Bridge is a much better option.

I hear the Mark Addy is good too but I'm yet to go in there despite working down here for 4 years!

[William the White]

So - is Las Iguanas mexican? or Latin american? Or generically hispanic? What's the wine like and from where?

[boltonboris]

So - is Las Iguanas mexican? or Latin american? Or generically hispanic? What's the wine like and from where?

Wine is mixed, but it's not really a wine kind of place... More lager and cocktail. It's Latin American and it's not too bad, plenty better, just on Deansgate, never mind the rest of town.

Moved on to The Bridge on Bridge Street to end the evening before rolling home around midnight

Clapton, it's been a while since I ate there, but I'd have to question your reasoning, when you go to the Bridge for drinks, but Las Iguanas for food?? It has to be t'other way round surely! Also, next time you're down there eating, try Luso.. Always empty for some reason but cracking grub (at least it was a couple of years back)

[Bruce Rioja]

We had a table booked at Las Iguanas (opposite Waterstones) so moved in there at 7.30pm. I'm sure this restaurant has been mentioned in this thread previously but its worth mentioning again. Really, really enjoyed it in there. A lovely place, a great selection of food and drink and expert and friendly staff. I enjoyed the Gambas and chicken fajitas plus a two carafes of some vodka based cocktail shared around the table. Coffee and amaretto to end the meal. Lovely!

Aye. I mentioned that colleagues and I went in the midst of the Christmas bustle (unbooked) and that the staff went out of their way to accomodate us, then served us some truly memorable food. I mentioned it on here and then it turned out that quite a few on here, The General most notably, had all had excellent experiences there. You're absolutely right, Clapton, we're all quick enough to slate a place if it doesn't come up to snuff, so to praise a good place again is always worth doing.

[William the White]

Nice wlak, winter hill from barrow bridge. Three hours. Out of it after a long winter, so knackered. Shower. Nice dry cider from hereford - not tried cider for years, thought i didn't likke it, but this was recommended and is really refreshing.

About to uncork a fine Hautes Cotes de Beaune to go with a boeuf bourguignon...

Pushing out the boat...

[TANGODANCER]

Couple of cheeses worth mentioning: Morrisons Delicatessen have Cheddar with pickled onion and The Lake District Cheese Company-Mature Cumbrian Cheddar. Both very tasty.

[Bruce Rioja]

Couple of cheeses worth mentioning: Morrisons Delicatessen have Cheddar with pickled onion and The Lake District Cheese Company-Mature Cumbrian Cheddar. Both very tasty.

See, I don't quite get this. I really don't need cheesemakers to start putting pickled onion, Branston pickle, chillies, or anything else into cheese. Just make the bloody stuff to the best of your ability and I'll decide what, if anything, I'll be having with it.

[Lord Kangana]

They do it to get rid of the sh*te they couldn't normally sell. Sorry Tango.

[TANGODANCER]

Thank goodness I still have the option to buy what I like, even if I do get slated for having the audacity to mention it. Sorry to lower the gastronomic tone.

[Bruce Rioja]

Thank goodness I still have the option to buy what I like, even if I do get slated for having the audacity to mention it. Sorry to lower the gastronomic tone.

I don't see anyone slating you for anything anywhere. You can probably get help for your persecution complex, Tango.

[TANGODANCER]

Thank goodness I still have the option to buy what I like, even if I do get slated for having the audacity to mention it. Sorry to lower the gastronomic tone.

I don't see anyone slating you for anything anywhere. You can probably get help for your persecution complex, Tango.

A reply (and it was actually to LK), even with a joking wink, is persecution complex? Oh dear, seems I do need help then.

[General Mannerheim]

Cruz Campo, till it's comin out me ears! Love all inclusive!

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

Just done poached salmon (in white wine, sage and vegetable stock) with a creamy cherry tomato sauce, served on a bed of asparagus and noodles.

Overdid the noodles, but everything else was great.

Nicked the main bits off a recipe, but made a bit up myself. I'm nowhere near good enough to do that off my own fag.

[William the White]

Spice Valley... just beautiful curry... fish starter, beautifully, delicately sliced little cubes of lightly battered fried fish... Me chicken methi, coriander bursts, light sauce, fab flavours... partner aubergines in spicy thick tomatoe sauce, had a liitle spoonful, just great... pilau, one naan between us... Two beers and a (ok) glass of house red. Tried to be modest but still loosening the belt a notch at the end.

£45 inc tip... I'm happy, nice, nice night out... good conversation, making each other laugh after 26 years... Fantastic

[2399]

Pork BBQ Hot Plate at a Thai Restaurant.

[William the White]

Sea Bream from the fish market, baked. Excellent. With jersey royals and asparagus also from the market and affordable.

Strawberries and cornish ice cream. A little crumbly Lancashire.

An Italian dryish white. chilled seriouly.

It's Friday. at last. Been a horrible week, not helped by sunshine over the moors every time I looked out of my office window. Looked great and I wasn't there.

But might be tomorrow.

[Bruce Rioja]

Thank goodness I still have the option to buy what I like, even if I do get slated for having the audacity to mention it. Sorry to lower the gastronomic tone.

I don't see anyone slating you for anything anywhere. You can probably get help for your persecution complex, Tango.

A reply (and it was actually to LK), even with a joking wink, is persecution complex? Oh dear, seems I do need help then.

Oh and there's me thinking that it's a public forum. Silly me. I put a little wink at the end of my post too look, but you must need further help in noticing it. Go on, fill yourself up on shit cheese!

[Bruce Rioja]

Spice Valley... just beautiful curry...

I always considered the claim "I know a good Indian restaurant" to be up there with "I know a good Mexican restaurant" in that it's pretty difficult to tell the food at one as being any different from any other until I went to Spice Valley. Absolutely first-class every time I've been, and everything that I've eaten in there has not only been an utter pleasure but completely beyond comparison to anything that you could possibly expect to be served down the 'curry house'.
Highly, highly recommended. A treat.