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The
Grill On The Alley |
5
Ridgefield, Manchester, M2 6EG
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Restaurant
opening hours:
Sun-Weds 12pm - 10pm |
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Thurs-Sat 12pm - 11pm /
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The
Grill On The Alley |
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| Located
off iconic Deansgate this restaurant epitomises old and new Manchester,
coming together to form a perfect partnership where you may hide
away in a haven of great food, drink and atmosphere. |
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Grill On The Alley, a Blackhouse grill restaurant, as the name
suggests, is a fulsome nod to that classic grill preoccupation
- the glorious steak, along side of which runs a healthy obsession
with the freshest of produce from our seas. They make no apology
for offering a combination of popular requests and old favourites. |
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ultra-nouvelle cuisine or chef's mad experiment in minimalism here,
you will not be sent away with a tasting menu rattling against your
rib-cage and in desperate need of a dictionary and a proper meal. |
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key to Blackhouse is in the quality of the ingredients; all of their
beasty-based foods are sourced only from farmers whose wellies are
splattered in honest, hormone-free muck, and are in possession of
a healthy, ruddy-glow, a clear indicator of time spent chasing live
stock around the pasture. |
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Similarly, their sea-produce, while not exactly required to be still
jumping up and down on the plate or intoning ‘ahoy there matey',
as proof of provenance, is as fresh as the proverbial daisy. The
quality of the meal is in the base produce - Head Chef James Brown
and his team will lightly threaten the produce with a little heat
and then arrange it - simply.
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simplicity and restraint in the kitchen need not necessarily mean
Calvinistic frugality in the choice of ingredients, indeed, the menu,
written in plain-speak - lists such blatant temptations as; Lobster,
Ostrich, Suckling Pig and Oysters and that almost mythical, super-pampered
delicacy of the meat world, Kobe beef. |
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while the atmosphere is reassuringly lively and yet comfortably decorous
the underlying mantra remains; restraint in the kitchen, care and
thought in the choice of produce, and a desire to be recognised as
an honest refuge for the restrained hedonist. |
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