"Simply exceptional": Jay Rayner praises Greek-Mediterranean food at Manchester restaurant in new review
21.01.2024 - 13:39
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
While the décor at Manchester’s new Greek-Mediterranean restaurant might be over the top, the food is “simply exceptional”.
That’s according to esteemed writer Jay Rayner, who praised the eatery in a new review following his most recent visit to the city centre.
Though he compared the interior to the cantina from Star Wars and “10,000 Instagram reels just waiting to happen,” The Observer critic had nothing but positive words to say about his dishes, which included a moussaka, sea bass tartare and orzo.
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Following his trip to the restaurant, located in The Good Yard Building just outside Spinningfields, Jay wrote: “The food here, courtesy of Greek head chef Ippokratis Anagnostelis, is delightful.
“It’s all the flavours and textures of moussaka, not so much deconstructed as reupholstered. Some people object to this malarkey on principle. But when, as here, it’s done with such attention to detail, objections fall away. It works.”
The writer, who has been reviewing restaurants for more than two decades, also left a glowing comment on the sea bass tartare, adding: “A sea bass tartare is both worth looking at and worth eating.”
The food enthusiast also enjoyed a “fabulous dish or orzo,” which was “cooked until soft and starchy in an anise-heavy lobster bisque and topped with three fat langoustine tails."
Finishing with the crème brûlée served with apple crumble, he said the dish was “as accomplished as any I’ve ever been served” and worth “fighting over.”
Summing up his experience, mentioning his costly meal, the writer said: “Perhaps you didn’t think this was your scene. But now you’re here it turns out to have a lot to recommend it. Yes, some of Fenix