SLEUTH | Major Indian Restaurant Arrives | Mcr Gets Enchanted Rose Garden | Confidential's Tiramisu

Sleuth is a sideways glance at the city every week, it's the truth, but Sleuth's truth. He's several people all at once. Sleuth sometimes even gets serious.@mcrsleuth

SLEUTH’S FINEST USELESS MANCHESTER HOTEL PROMO OF THE WEEK

This from the new Motel One at Piccadilly with a little description of the how one can ‘stroll the along the famous shopping streets, such as Town Hall and the Market Street.’

 

 

MANCHESTER’S ENCHANTED ROSE GARDENS REVEALED

Sleuth is deeply in love with Motel One’s publicity. The German hotel group has a fine facility with language although seem somewhat confused as to the joys of our city. These paragraphs are hilarious. Just read and laugh: ‘Welsh mountains’, ‘enchanted rose gardens’, ‘hurl yourself into posh shopping areas’.

NEW RESTAURANT FOR CORN EXCHANGE

Sleuth hears the latest restaurant announced for Corn Exchange is Mowgli - an Indian street kitchen from Liverpool (our Liverpool Confidential editor reviewed it here). Mowgli is a labour of love from Nisha Katona - a barrister for twenty years who packed it all in to take a punt in restaurants. Bold. Sleuth likes her already. Katona calls herself a 'curry evangelist' - shirking away from all the muck created for mild British palates in the 70s. Though Sleuth reckons, with her yoghurt chat bombs (£3.50), tamarind water bombs (£3.50) and gunpowder chicken (£5.95), it's bubbling for an apocalyptic food fight.

Nisha Katon

'I JUST WANT A PINT, MATE'

Sleuth loved this story this week. Deputy editor David Blake was in reviewing new Northern Quarter bar restaurant, Tariff and Dale, this week. Hearing Confidential were present the owner Nick de Sousa came over to give full chapter and verse on his new venture and the 'what we're about' speech. Problem was, as Blake watched from the next booth, he picked the wrong lanky young buck in glasses. "That's great," said the puzzled bloke, "but I just popped in for a pint."

I just want a pint mate

SLEUTH’S INCREDIBLE MUSIC KNOWLEDGE

Sleuth was staying in the Lowry Hotel this week. It was around 11pm in the bar and there were some young lads with sunglasses being giggled at by young ladies wearing very little. Sleuth asked a member of staff a question: “Are they a boyband?” “We can’t talk about other guests,” said the person with a wink. “But let’s just say we’ve not had a great summer so far, just about five seconds.”

Sleuth looked blankly back, wondering if he were in a Cold War movie and whether he should say something like, “Yes and when the blossom flourishes the nightingales will sing” and hand over a briefcase. “Five seconds of summer,” the member of staff said, trying hard. Sleuth was clueless. It was only later he learnt that Five Seconds of Summer was the name of the boy band. Sleuth felt silly...for about two and half seconds of summer.

MANCHESTER TV

Manchester TV has launched and although Sleuth has yet to watch it he hopes it’s better than directionless Channel M which Sleuth nicknamed Channel Erm because nobody knew what it was for. The strapline of the new TV channel is ‘Manchester so much to answer for’. Why oh why? Did they not realise they were borrowing a line from the Smiths’ song ‘Suffer Little Children’ which is about the Moors Murders. Not nice but an error repeated by so many. Sleuth finds it all a bit disturbing.

SLEUTH’S SLAP ON THE BACK OF WEEK

The editor went to Lupo Caffe this week on Chapel Street in Salford. He loved the tiramisu and recommended it to the world - click here. On Wednesday Blake the Botherer was at an event and the owner of Lupo Caffe was there, a very pleasant Italian gent called Nico. He said to Blake the Botherer, "We sell out of tiramisu every day now, we can't make enough." There are many problems facing Greater Manchester but Manchester Confidential is hugely pleased with itself for helping the local tiramisu industry face up to those challenges.

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