Tattu Manchester
Ian Jones, Food and Drink Editor
Dry January 2024: This January, Tattu Manchester welcomes 2024 in with a non-alcoholic partnership with Everleaf. As part of their ‘Winter Romance’ offering, Tattu has created four vibrant booze-free cocktails, also available throughout February. Perfect for anyone who is looking to follow through with their no-alcohol intake a little longer.
For a sparkling treat, the Inauguration cocktail made with Everleaf Mountain, Wild Idol and cherry is the perfect alternative to the classic bellini while the Forbidden Forest with orange, passion fruit and ginger ale takes visitors on a tropical journey.
The Radiance cocktail is made with Everleaf Mountain, blood orange, apple and jasmine, and the Marine Mist, with agave and lime, is a take on the popular Margarita, ideal for tequila lovers. Indulge in a series of non-alcoholic cocktails at Tattu Manchester this January.
Restaurant review spring 2023: Manchester is growing in height and status, with a fast-moving skyline to rival any major capital city. Of course, a world-class city needs a world-class food scene and Tattu is at the forefront regarding taste, ideas and that all-important wow factor.
A new menu here is always a cause for celebration, and these new spring-themed dishes are all about the cherry blossom – a nod to both the eye-catching tree that stands tall in the main dining area and the upcoming season of rebirth and fresh flavours.
Tattu has nailed modern dining in modern Manchester
The salt and pepper loin ribs can’t be praised enough. Coated in a thick sticky sauce, heavy on the garlic and five-spice, the meat is tender and soft, and happily there’s plenty of it. If you’re looking for the darkest, most decadent ribs around, head here.
For meat, it has to be Tattu’s new show-stopping dish: seven ounces of Japanese black Wagyu. It’s not cheap, but the best things rarely are. The chefs start the cooking process off in the kitchen, and then the tender strips of beef turn up at the table on a piping hot Himalayan salt block, scattered with tiny enoki mushrooms and with a bowl of shallot soy.
This is beef from cows that spend their lives being constantly massaged and, well, it shows. Each bite is unforgettable, so rich and packed with flavour, bolstered by the hot salt. It’s the most memorable dish on a menu packed with dazzling dishes.
The Phoenix Nest is a next-level dessert, almost like a cylindrical birthday cake made from thick marshmallow, and peanut butter fudge and honeycomb. At any normal restaurant it’d be an award-winning sweet, but Tattu manages to kick things out of the park with the Cherry Blossom.
A sublime way to end the springtime menu, this undeniably dramatic dish is a lot of different things, all built around the idea of an edible bonais-style version of the restaurant’s famous cherry blossom tree. This means candy floss for the blossom, a chocolate tree and branches, a biscuit crumble for the base, plus shiny black cherries and a cherry sorbet – with a whole host of dry ice swirling around your table, like when a mountain pierces through the clouds. The visual experience is worth the price alone, but it somehow tastes as good as it looks.
Tattu has nailed modern dining in modern Manchester. The restaurant holds its own next to the city’s more traditional high-end establishments, such as The French, with food and drink concepts that are stunning – some may even say outlandish – but always first-class.
