Taste of Scandinavia coming to Manchester with new restaurant

Ancoats is to get a new restaurant which will have a distinctly Scandinavian feel to it.

Manchester’s trendiest area is fast becoming a foodie hotspot thanks to a rash of new openings.

Last month Portuguese tapas restaurant Canto was opened by the team behind El Gato Negro.

And this month Mana is being launched by Simon Martin – who worked at the world famous Noma in Copenhagen.

The taster menu includes ingredients such as reindeer moss and bark as well as red deer stag.

The menu costs around £100 per person and includes beige scallops and nutritional yeast broth, and milk curds with urchin and dessicated spruce.

The menu concentrates on seasonal ingredients and wild game.

Other dishes include fried reindeer moss dipped in pine, red deer stag cooked over binchoton and chicken of the woods with pheasant garum.

Simon Martin has spent the last six months developing his menu.

He said: “We’re not making gels and foams and things that aren’t even recognisable. We’re making food – real food.”

The 16 dishes will be served in just 105 minutes at the restaurant in Blossom Street.

The plan is to attract an international audience and the new venue is aiming to become a ‘destination’ restaurant in its own right.

The restaurant is due to open on Wednesday, October 17th.