Albert’s Schloss called a ‘class act’ by top critic
MANCHESTER bar Albert’s Schloss has won plenty of plaudits since it stomped onto the Peter Street party circuit in 2015.
The Bavarian beer hall won bar of the year at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival awards in 2016 and has been nominated in our CityLife Awards for two years on the trot.
Now it can add a glowing food review from a top national restaurant critic to its growing list of accolades.
The Guardian’s Jay Rayner described the venue as a ‘class act’ as he heaped praise on its kitchen and bakery. “If you didn’t pay proper attention, you might dismiss Albert’s Schloss as Dante’s third circle of hell, only with less glamour,” the review of his Sunday night meal - complete with a cabaret show - begins.
The music - ‘so loud it could dislodge a filling’ - and the laid-on-thick ‘Germanic schtick’ would have sent him scuttling away making the sign of the cross had a Manchester friend not implored him to go, Rayner writes.
“I really should hate it. I should want to be anywhere but here. But I don’t. Albert’s Schloss is a class act,” he concludes. Ham and cheese croquettes are ‘crispy shelled, golden and pouting gusts of hot cheesy, piggy air at you as you bite in’; bratwurst sausages, made by Chorlton butcher W H Frost, are ‘an impressive piece of work...tight skinned, meaty and peppery in all the right places’; and Schweinshaxe (crispy roasted pork knuckle) is ‘monumental...as sustaining a plateful as anything I’ve had in a real Bavarian bier hall’.
The compliments keep coming for dessert - a peanut butter and raspberry jam kronut is ‘a model of its kind’, while a burnt Alaska ‘could stand comparison with anything coming out of Britain’s grandest kitchens’.