STAR TURN MANA EARNS EVEN MORE ACCOLADES
TOP ANCOATS RESTAURANT ADDS AA ROSETTES TO ITS MICHELIN STAR
MANCHESTER’S only restaurant with a Michelin star has just scooped yet another prestigious accolade.
Mana in Ancoats has been awarded four AA Rosettes, making it one of the top restaurants in the UK.
The renowned Blossom Street business serves a set menu of around 14 courses, priced at £185 per person.
It was one of only three restaurants to be recognised with four Rosettes this year, accompanied by Forest Side in the Lake District and Tuddenham Mill in Suffolk.
The new Rosette Awards were handed out this week in a virtual ceremony.
Adam Reid at The French, the flagship restaurant inside Manchester’s Midland Hotel, already holds four Rosettes, awarded back in 2018.
Mana, headed up by chef patron Simon Martin, was praised for its ‘highly technical’ cooking.
The AA inspector said: “Situated on a cobbled street in Manchester, Mana has a minimalist look with high ceilings and picture windows.
“Dramatic darkwood tables are unclothed and an open islandstyle kitchen is populated by chefs sending out some highly accomplished Nordic-influenced cooking.
“Multi-course menus deliver dishes that are highly technical, intelligent and masterfully constructed to balance flavours and textures, with fermentation and fire contributing to the skills set.
“Expect to find the finest raw materials underpinning the likes of unpreserved caviar with sorrel and caramelised cream; a trimmed oyster with iced dill, English wasabi and macerated oyster leaf; ‘fillets’ of Devonshire blue mussel with garlic ‘cooked for two months’; smoked Scottish sea trout with ‘inoculated’ grains, and 100% outdoor raised Dexter Beef with ‘all the artichoke.’
“The sweet end of the menu brings wild fig soft serve with marigold and fermented honey, and ‘still-hot’ doughnut with Islay whisky custard.”
Simon Numphud, managing director at AA Media said: “As the hospitality sector reopens after a challenging year, it is an honour to be able to recognise those restaurants achieving the highest levels of gastronomic excellence.
“All 2021 Rosette winners deserve to be celebrated, with each one demonstrating the exceptional culinary standards being offered to diners across the country.”