Chaps,

I am attending a wine offliner in Manchester in March.

The menu has been published and the theme is to match wines to the food.
I am usually ok on this topic but there are a couple of dishes I have no idea on.
Can you help ?? the dishes in question are the Porage and the Goat.


A Saturday lunch offline on 23rd March.

The theme is wines to match the food. £35 per head including corkage.

Tasting Menu - Four Courses

Amuse Bouche

Home Smoked Mackerel
Roast celeriac, pickled beets & mustard cream
(veggie option is without the mackerel)

Oat Groat Porage
White onion puree & cauliflower beignet

Slow Cooked Milk Fed Goat
Pearl barley, goat’s curd, cauliflower & scotch pine
(vegie option is Green's Cheddar tart with grilled baby gem lettuce & walnut vinaigrette)

Grapefruit Posset
Celery granite & sherbet

Any thoughts would be most welcome.
Richard

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I'd go for a 2012 Epsom Salts and a brown paper bag

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The goat dish doesn’t come across as particularly heavy, a medium weight red with good body & fragrance, a young Bandol perhaps?

Oat Groat Porage? Im afraid to even google it.

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Link here of the actual dish I beleive ??

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24726943@N06/7453693310/

Restaurant is called Aumbry and is rated very highly.(Prestwich just north of city centre)

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Just read this on the restaurant web page.

Head Chef & Owner Mary-Ellen McTague is representing the North West in the new series of Great British Menu! The North West region will be aired Monday 11th to Friday 15th February on BBC 2 at 7.30pm.

I will watch and see how she fairs.

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Fares.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24726943@N06/7453693310/

Its worse than I feared. Do they have a cat?

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Wretched fellow, beat me to it. I was going to say that my dog produced stuff like that from 2 directions, but I won't now.
I had a look at their menus to find that there was only one thing that I would eat. However, £40 for a pie seems a little ott.

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I’m sure most of their food is very nice, I'd be happy to dine there.

Unfortunately there's nothing attractive about the name or look of Oat Groat Porage.

Now you're talking...

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I will give this talented chef the benefit on this dish but everyone is in the same boat, ie doesn`t sell itself !!

It will be interesting to see her fun side next week for red nose cook off.

Thinking of a German Kabinett for this dish at the moment and a Tempier maybe for the Goat ??

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On the subject of food, anyone watching the news.....

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Aha. Fruits de Mare.

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Aha....

My dear Misses is a vegetarian.

I've never eaten a grey burger from a sweaty van take away or a Tesco / McDonalds one for that matter. Never at a Grand Prix or race meeting either. You could get Jamie Oliver wild boar and fried onions at a Silverstone event last year - very nice too, about a £1 more than the dire grey burger !

They say that Romania and Poland are the main culprits for equine meat traded as a beef deception - not proven yet. Also there is a report of some very canny Irish men, who buy an old mare for 10 euros and sell for E500 on the euro market, after swapping over the animal's ID and chip documents. Apparenty the've been at this game for quite a while.

Whoever is responsible needs to spend some time behind bars, and repay their ill gotten gains, particularly those trading in sick beasts which could be saturated in harmfull drugs. It won't happen though. Butchers are getting some welcome extra trade.

A 100% Ostrich burger on a home made bap is quite nice - I eaten one of those in the 2nd oldest restaurent in England

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Duncan

Anyone watch tonight's British menu ?

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