Isinglass English Dining Room

Isinglass is an English restaurant. Not in the St George’s flag sense, but well-travelled enough to enjoy our real eccentricities. We put the food grown and reared in the lush countryside ringing Manchester on our menu, all year round. Simple as. Only that takes a lot more imagination and frankly old school cooking skill from our kitchen, some historical depth rather than banging out cooked-chill or frozen meals from a big food distributor. So when the last asparagus or yellow courgette is picked in Cheshire it’s off the menu. That’s why it’s not laminated. And that’s why the food is fresh, cooked to enhance not mask its natural flavours.

We are not Tuscan or a Mediteranean wannabe. Follow a Pisan gran’s recipe slavishly using supermarket finest and it will still not taste the same under Manchester’s slate grey sky. We serve food for our climate, field fresh Chat Moss salad in summer, slow-cooked boiled beef and baby carrots coming in the cold. Food that satisfies, lingers and reconnects with youthful memory. Direct from fields not a factory.