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Restaurant Wars: The Battle For Manchester
niceguy1966
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I hope a thread doesn't already exist for this show. I love food programs and I hope this shows a lot more of the actual food side of things, testing menus, sourcing ingredients, training the staff, etc. It would be too easy just to show a lot of grumpy Manchester customers going on about fancy food isn't for them.
So far Simon Rogan is coming across as a bit of a Dick, but I quite liked him on Great British Menu, so I hope he just suffered from bad editing in episode 1.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/restaurant-wars-the-battle-for-manchester-bbc2--tv-review-a-nononsense-battle-of-the-chefs-whets-the-appetite-9259718.html
So far Simon Rogan is coming across as a bit of a Dick, but I quite liked him on Great British Menu, so I hope he just suffered from bad editing in episode 1.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/restaurant-wars-the-battle-for-manchester-bbc2--tv-review-a-nononsense-battle-of-the-chefs-whets-the-appetite-9259718.html
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Mancunians seem happy confirming the northern stereotype then! Pie and chips forevermore....
Aiden seems really humble - and he works in that restaurant every day and night in full view of the customers so you know he cant get away with speaking to people like shite!!
The fact he did change his menu to attract more local diners says he isn't too proud. I'm sure it wasn't his life's ambition to run a pub, but he got his hands dirty and did what was necessary when his posh food was failing financially.
Good Luck to him, and considering it was "just" fish and chips and burger and chips, it did look really nice!
It looked good but you could fair hear his voice dripping with contempt at what he`d been forced to do.
You don't always get the same things. The taster menus change regularly and with seasons.
She was so off her face she wouldn't be able to tell the difference between foie gras and a turd if they were put in front of her.
I also think the good burghers of Manchester can live without Simon Rogan's ox in coal oil - sounds a bit like the Emporer's new clothes to me - though I haven't yet tasted it and I'm not sure I want to!
She was a very sour piece of work. All the sophistication of an Aldi ready meal eaten while sipping Tennents Pils through a straw.
Quality description.
Wow there's an image to scar the mind.
All she goes there for for 40 years is smoked salmon and omlette?
Chist! live a little.
Manchester has some very fine restaurants in and out of city centre as you seem to know yourself.
It was a silly comment that the commenter said about people 'up north' not spending that type of money.
I am sure there is a restaurant in Cartmel in the NW that is ranked number one now with The Fat Duck being number two.
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Just seen that the restaurant I was referring to in Cartmel is owned by Simon Rogan.
We were booked in there once for a business meal, but I cancelled due to illness.
That comment was very London centric and did the program no favors. Given that one of the two chefs was based in 'the north', it sounded stupid as soon as they said it.
And as much of a dick
I just wanna punch that guy
It's his right hand man - chef advisor? - that seems to be out of touch with the standards and food they need to be producing.