Wood-fired kitchen · Manchester
Everything here meets the fire first
A wood-fired kitchen in the old print works. Open fire, a short menu, and a room built for long evenings.
Wood-fired kitchen · Manchester
A wood-fired kitchen in the old print works. Open fire, a short menu, and a room built for long evenings.
The kitchen
There is no gas in this kitchen. Everything is cooked over a single wood-fired oven that we light at four and let die out somewhere around midnight. It means the menu is short and it changes when the fire tells us to.
We buy whole animals and whole fish, so what is on tonight depends on what came in and what is left. If the plaice has gone, it has gone. We would rather tell you that than freeze it.
The room seats twenty-eight. One sitting a night. The table is yours until you want to give it back.
On tonight
Split over the coals, burnt lemon butter, sourdough to mop up.
Slow over oak, black treacle glaze, pickled cucumber, burnt onion.
Cooked on the bone, wilted greens, brown butter and capers.
Thick cut, rested pink, cider apples, crushed new potatoes.
Rolled that morning, wild mushrooms, crisped sage, aged parmesan.
Salted caramel poured at the table, burnt vanilla ice cream.
The room
The fire
The pass
The roomWhat people say
“The short rib is the best thing I have eaten this year. Four hours over oak and it tastes like it.”
Hannah Whitfield
Manchester Evening News
“It is a proper room. Dark, warm, loud in the good way. We have had three birthdays here now.”
Idris Osei
Regular since opening
“Booked for two, stayed four hours, nobody once made us feel we should leave. Rare and lovely.”
Marta Kowalczyk
Google review
“Confident cooking without a shred of fuss. The flatbread alone justifies the trip.”
Sam Delaney
The Northern Table
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