Fine Dining And Cocktails Arrive On Manchester’s King Street
QUILL IS HERE! Following weeks of suspense Manchester’s newest fine dining restaurant and bar is finally open.
The restaurant is headed up by Curtis Stewart and the menu has been described as modern British cuisine, with European influences.
Service is Tuesday to Saturday, with lunch from 12 noon until 2pm, early dining 5.30 ’til 7pm and evening service from 7pm until 9.30pm.
Lunch and Early Dining offer two courses for £19.95, three for £24.50, plus an additional six courses are available at lunch for £55. For dinner guests can choose between A La Carte and Tasting, the A La Carte menu is served in chapters offering two courses for £45 or three for £50.
For dinner guests can chose between the A La Carte and Tasting menus. Curtis’ A La Carte menu* is served in chapters offering two courses for £45 or three for £50. Starters include squid & octopus served with garlic curd, lime and consommé; foie gras with smoked eel, pecan and orange and chicken oyster with bone marrow, salsify and red grape. Chapter Two includes dishes such as lobster with mango, coconut and bisque and duck served with turnip, smoked garlic and hen of the woods.
The sixty cover first floor dining room also boasts a private dining area seating up to 21.
On the ground floor of Quill is the cocktail bar and terrace. It boasts a cocktail list inspired by the idea of the quill. The bar team devised the list combining historical elements of penmanship, quills and scribes to create theatre and bring alive the drinks which compliment the core flavours from the food menu. Quill’s signature Crow is used in the elaborate cocktail sharer The Crows Nest.
The bar at Quill will be open Sunday to Thursday from 12pm until 12am, Friday to Saturday from 12pm until 2.30am. The restaurant will serve lunch from 12 noon until 2.30pm and evening service will be from 6.30 until 9.30pm.
For more information visit www.quillmcr.co.uk or @QuillMCR.
Posted: Monday 30th November 2015
ID: 11330 - 1468
About Tast Cuina Catalana
Tast to open in Manchester in June 2018. Fazenda group, Pep Guardiola, Txiki Begiristain and Ferran Soriano team up with world-renowned Catalan chef Paco Perez
An authentic celebration of Catalan food and wine will launch in June on King Street, Manchester, with the opening of Tast Cuina Catalana, roughly translated as ‘Taste from the Catalan Kitchen.’
‘Tast’ will bring worldwide interest to the growing links between Manchester and Catalonia, bringing the talent of multi-Michelin star chef Paco Perez.
Paco is the renowned international patron-chef of two Michelin 2* restaurants - Miramar, in Llançà, (Girona) and Enoteca at the Arts Hotel in Barcelona, a city where he has six restaurants in all. He is also behind the Michelin 1* Restaurant Cinc at the Hotel Das Stue in Berlin.
Pep Guardiola, Txiki Begiristain, Ferran Soriano are among the investors in the restaurant. Acting in a personal capacity, the investors have teamed up with the independent Fazenda group, whose directors’ passion for South American cuisine has made their award-winning ‘rodizio’ grilled meat restaurants in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester (and recent Edinburgh opening) a great popular success.
Tast will have 120-covers over three floors, with a casual dining and bar area on the ground floor, a first-floor dining room and a second floor with private rooms offering a tasting menu.
Despite Paco Perez’s record, Tast is not pursuing awards, but will simply create a warm, friendly and affordable atmosphere for anyone wishing to experience the best of Catalan food and drink.
Catalonia is renowned worldwide for its gastronomy. Geographically diverse, it produces a variety of fresh, high-quality seafood, meat, poultry, fruit and vegetables. The Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrenees are the perfect environment for unique produce, and its distinctive cuisine benefits from French and Spanish influences. The region produces some of the best old world wines with renowned D.O's (Denominació d’Origen) including Penedès, Montsant, Empordà, Tarragona and Costers del Segre and one D.O.C (Denominació d’Origen Controlada), Priorat.
As well as serving traditional Catalan starters and mains, the Tast menu will offer ‘tastets’ – small portions and nibbles to savour and to share. Paco Perez says: “"We are delighted to bring the Catalan cuisine to Manchester and to be part of the amazing team behind Tast.”
Fazenda director Tomas Maunier says: “We are hugely excited to be working with these amazing creative talents. Catalonia has a distinctive identity and culture from that of Spain and our ambition is to introduce people to its wonderful tastes and flavours. Paco’s reputation is immense and we will serve some of his and Pep’s favourite Catalan dishes, both traditional and with innovative modern twists.”