'Three Course Menu'
More from the increasingly strange world of Manchester’s fine dining restaurants as I received the new menus this week for the ultra flamboyant Vermillion, from the looks of it (not actually eaten there ourselves yet) a palace-like place in the wastelands near Eastlands. Strange place to put a very smart restaurant that, incidentally, although I suppose being right next door to a premiership football club isn’t that bad an idea for a place that styles itself on opulence. They are looking at city centre venues though, rumour has it, which would probably be a good move.
Anyway, that’s not what I was going to write about. Following the Ithaca nonsense,Vermillion seem keen to get in on the act with their new ‘Business Lunch Menu’, which provides diners with a choice of five different menus to choose from. I don’t have a problem with that – I’m sure it’s all very nice, but posh-restaurant-stupidity syndrome strikes again at the bottom as they describe each ‘menu’ as being three courses. Tea or coffee is now, apparently, a course. Laughable, if it wasn’t so earnestly tragic. Here's a snapshot for you - we got a four year old child to point out the important bit:
My Guinness investigations started last night, incidentally, as I popped into the Town Hall Tavern to kill half an hour. There was an old guy at the bar drinking a pint of the black stuff, which is generally considered a good sign – old men don’t take any crap, especially when beer’s involved. I asked him how his pint was. ‘Very nice’ he told me but I was unfortunately soon to realise that his taste buds must have been somewhat diminished by his years. The scores were recorded as follows:
Pour: 8/10. Left to settle and topped up nicely.
Look: 5/10. The head weakened significantly within a minute.
Taste: 6/10. Unmistakably Guinness and not the worst pint I’ve ever had but it was watery and had a slightly tobacco-tinged aftertaste, which isn’t a good thing.
Nice pub though and friendly staff and locals but the best Guinness in Manchester? No. The search continues.
Anyway, that’s not what I was going to write about. Following the Ithaca nonsense,Vermillion seem keen to get in on the act with their new ‘Business Lunch Menu’, which provides diners with a choice of five different menus to choose from. I don’t have a problem with that – I’m sure it’s all very nice, but posh-restaurant-stupidity syndrome strikes again at the bottom as they describe each ‘menu’ as being three courses. Tea or coffee is now, apparently, a course. Laughable, if it wasn’t so earnestly tragic. Here's a snapshot for you - we got a four year old child to point out the important bit:
My Guinness investigations started last night, incidentally, as I popped into the Town Hall Tavern to kill half an hour. There was an old guy at the bar drinking a pint of the black stuff, which is generally considered a good sign – old men don’t take any crap, especially when beer’s involved. I asked him how his pint was. ‘Very nice’ he told me but I was unfortunately soon to realise that his taste buds must have been somewhat diminished by his years. The scores were recorded as follows:
Pour: 8/10. Left to settle and topped up nicely.
Look: 5/10. The head weakened significantly within a minute.
Taste: 6/10. Unmistakably Guinness and not the worst pint I’ve ever had but it was watery and had a slightly tobacco-tinged aftertaste, which isn’t a good thing.
Nice pub though and friendly staff and locals but the best Guinness in Manchester? No. The search continues.
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