Dakota Grill – the popular restaurant housed at boutique hotel Dakota Manchester – has unveiled a limited-edition menu showcasing six “statement” courses for just £40 per person.
A Taste of Dakota is an exclusive new menu that defines the unique style of Dakota Grill.
The restaurant – which is renowned for its “feel-good food with a fabulously fine twist” serving up quality and seasonally-inspired dishes – has curated a menu like nothing else in the city by blending some of the finest ingredients to create an explosion of flavour.
So, what exactly can you expect then?
In true Dakota style, the A Taste of Dakota menu starts with an amuse bouche, followed by pork cheek with pear, hazelnut and parma ham for a sweet, nutty and salty flavour all in one. Then you can tuck into a twist on a king scallop, which is served with cauliflower cheese, pancetta and pea, before moving on to signature, prime cut, grass-fed, 35-day-aged beef steaks – which are Dakota’s speciality.
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Sourced from the very best British farms, you can enjoy a lightly-seasoned Chateaubriand beautifully cooked to your preference over hot coals, or try the 500g sharing steak, which is served with shallot puree, confit tomatoes and, fries.
For dessert, you can try a British twist on an Italian classic – Earl Grey panna cotta with lemon foam – and then finally, finish on a richer note with chocolate and pistachio with blackberry sorbet.
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There’s also the option to add on sides of short rib mac & cheese, truffle and parmesan fries, and vegetables and salads.
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If you’re a vegetarian, you can enjoy port poached pear with hazelnut and chicory, followed by crispy cauliflower with a classic combination of soy, ginger and garlic, and then hay-baked celeriac with truffle potato puree and tenderstem broccoli.
A lemon posset with blackberry will cleanse the palette, before an indulgent millionaire’s shortbread with caramel ice cream brings the meal to a finish.
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The exclusive A Taste of Dakota menu is available for a limited time only.
Dining at Dakota Grill is described as “the ultimate decadent dining experience”. Situated on the ground floor of the Dakota Manchester Hotel, the restaurant’s sleek interiors and intimate dining zones combine both luxury and comfortability.
Reservations for A Taste of Dakota must be made in advance and the menu can be enjoyed Monday to Thursday from 5 – 7:30pm, and Friday from 4 – 7:30pm up until 12th November 2020.
You can make a booking via the Dakota Manchester website here.
Eats
A pub in Stockport has launched a full Scotch egg menu
Daisy Jackson
It’s one of the world’s greatest snacks, especially when paired with a decent pint – and now a local pub is doing a whole Scotch egg menu.
The Davenport Arms over in Stockport is running a ‘Scotch Egg Week’, with a whole host of different Scotch eggs.
There’s even a dessert one, made with a Creme Egg instead of a real one.
The historic pub, which is known locally as The Thief’s Neck (and displays both names on its signs), is filled with cosy corners and snug rooms.
It’s an independently-run pub that operates under the Robinson’s Brewery family, with beers brewed just down the road in Stockport.
And now the local boozer is doing a full menu of homemade Scotch eggs, for one week only, each served with the perfect condiment.
There’ll be ‘The Classic’, where pork meat is wrapped around a perfect jammy-yolked egg, served with house piccalilli.
The Manchester EggA classic Scotch eggThe Davenport Arms, known locally as The Thief’s NeckInside the pub
Or you can get the much-loved Manchester egg, which features black pudding and a pickled Scotch egg, served with mustard mayo on the side.
Fish fans can grab a smoked haddock Scotch egg served with a curried mayo.
And for vegetarians, there’s one made with cheese and onion instead of meat, served with a house tomato relish.
There’s even a sweet one – a Creme Egg encased in brownie mix, and then wrapped in a Biscoff crumb, served with ice cream.
And if you really can’t decide, The Davenport Arms will do you a full platter of all of the above, for £29.95.
The Scotch Egg menu is available from Monday 30 March until Saturday 4 April and you can see more HERE.
One of Manchester’s grandest restaurants has finally reopened TWO YEARS after fire
Daisy Jackson
One of the most historic restaurants in Manchester has reopened at last, two years after a fire forced its closure.
Mount Street Dining Room & Bar – which many of us may remember as Mr Cooper’s – stands within the Grade II-listed Midland Hotel.
The grand dining room dates all the way back to 1903, when it opened with the hotel as the Grill Room.
The restaurant was at the epicentre of the Industrial Revolution and was frequented by railway travellers, perhaps best-known for hosting a lunch between Charles Rolls and Henry Royce in 1904, who went on to form the world-famous Rolls-Royce brand.
The Midland’s restaurants has gone through several changes in the decades since, undergoing a major £14 million refurb in 2020 to relaunch as Mount Street Dining Room & Bar.
Its interiors are inspired by the hotel’s early 1900s art deco and railway heritage, with a menu that focuses on locally-sourced British produce.
But the restaurant has been shut since early 2024, when a fire damaged the entrance and trellising around its main entrance on Mount Street.
The beautiful bar areaA glimpse of the menu at Mount StreetCocktails and British food
The Midland has finally managed to get the restaurant back open again this month, with a new food and cocktail menus, which aims to offer refined but simple British dining.
Expect dishes like pork and black pudding bonbons, white onion soup with crispy potatoes, smoked British salmon with lemon gel and dill mascarpone, and slow cooked beef daube with confit garlic mash.
Plus desserts such as rice pudding with Anise glazed pearsand Bakewell pudding with cherry syrup.
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen inside this beautiful, storied dining room – and it looks just as beautiful as we remember.
Emily Sergeant -
30th October 2020 
