KALEIDO is open. This is the restaurant on top of the National Football Museum in Urbis. The site has been Le Mont and The Modern in the past.
Kaleido has good looks, exquisite looking food and the distinction of the those views.
So why an aspirational restaurant on top of a footy venue?
"It needs to be distinctive up here to work," says Paul Riley, the executive chef. "The food and the drink has to attract people up to the restaurant and bar. A generic high street restaurant five floors up would be pointless and anyway both the restaurant and the museum are ambitious. Above all I want to create a real dining experience."
The menu certainly reads very well as does the wine list - check the pictures below.
The dishes featured here were all exceptional although a full scored review will have to wait.
The dishes pictured are veal carpaccio, mojamo, quail's eggs, spenwood, pea shoots (£12), Dingley Dell pork belly, apple, thyme honey, celeriac and goats cheese (£15) and summer fruit pate, black olive caramel, yoghurt sorbet (£7.25).
Summer fruit pate
The menu is the joint creation of Paul Riley and the figurehead for the restaurant Frank Bordoni. The overall general manager is Franco Caroleo.
Kaleidoscopic wallsThe fit out has added elements of crazy kaleidoscopic colours - hence the restaurant name, reflecting the kaleidoscope of people who play football.
The design company was ABTA. They should have gone a little further with the colour - the feature wall is the right approach.
That aside, Kaleido has good looks, exquisite looking food and the distinction of those views.
I'm looking forward to riding back up those lifts to see if the food lives up to the promise.
Kaleido is at 5th and 6th Floor, Urbis Building, Cathedral Gardens, City, M4 3BG. 0161 871 8160. www.kaleidorestaurant.co.uk
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Franco Caroleo and Paul Riley
Kaleido
