Manchester Street Food

Manchester Street Food

Manchester Street Food is an integral part of British English cuisine, otherwise known in England as 'Pub Grub'.

Apple And Blackberry Crumble

Food in Manchester is mostly simple, uncomplicated dishes, with an emphasis on ingredients sourced locally from British farmers, matched with simple sauces to enhance overall flavour. The cuisine of England has come a long way from a stodgy tasteless past. Today, British English cuisine is among the most influential worldwide, and has even adapted dishes from its former colonies, such as India, to create many hybrid dishes which are distinctly English.

Food in Manchester can be found along the streets in kiosks or small cafes, in mid-range restaurants and fine-dining establishments. Pubs are popular eating places, and commonly serve beer or wine to accompany food. Common ingredients used in Manchester include potatoes, beef, pork, chicken, bread (white, brown, rye), cheese (cheddar, cottage, stilton), vinegar, mustard, tomato ketchup, fish (haddock, cod, plaice, skate, mackerel, herring, salmon, trout), sausages, onions, gherkins, lettuce, tomatoes, peas, mushrooms, jam (blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, orange marmalade), grapes, rhubarb, sugar, apples, and more.

While snacking isn't too common in Manchester, having High Tea is still considered a very British activity to partake in on the weekends, as is the traditional Sunday Roast. Desserts are also common, and are often served hot / warm in Manchester, with varieties of puddings being popular. Traditions and rituals associated with food remain strong in Manchester, England, more so if the stall has a long history, a unique contrast as the city becomes increasingly globalised.

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The traditional Apple And Blackberry Crumble is a dessert which contains a filling of diced bramley apple or braeburn apple chunks, blackberry clusters, white sugar, cinnamon, and butter, caramelised into a chunky compote. It's covered with a crumble made from all-purpose flour, caster sugar or demerara sugar, and butter, with optional rolled oats sometimes being added. Baked and served warm, the crust is crumbly crisp with earthy savoury sweet grainy flavour. The filling is tender juicy soft in texture, with sharp sour sweet fruity flavour. Served with either a creamy scoop of vanilla ice cream, or a rich creamy vanilla custard, both of which carry floral milky earthy sweet flavour.

Apple And Blackberry Crumble

Apple And Blackberry Crumble

The Bacon Butty is essentially a bacon sandwich of sorts, with tender pork back bacon or crispy streaky pork bacon, between buttered bread (white, ciabatta, or wholemeal). Warm with bready smoky meaty salty savoury flavours, this is a comforting start on a cold morning. Popular add-ons include a fluffy egg omelette with eggy sweet flavour, tender button mushrooms with vegetal earthy salty savoury flavour, or thick tomato ketchup with vegetal sour sweet flavour. Anecdotally, this is recommended as a hangover cure.

Bacon Butty

Bacon Butty

A classic pub grub, the Beef Steak & Ale Pie is commonly served in most pubs in Manchester, England, as well as being a comforting home favourite. Within a pastry pie crust dough (typically made from all-purpose flour, salt, water, chicken egg, and butter) is stuffed a generous amount of diced beef chunks (beef chuck, rump, or shoulder), white onions, carrots, and sometimes button mushrooms or celery, all of which is braised in a rich gravy made from garlic, tomatoes, worcestershire sauce, salt, thyme, rosemary, black pepper, and dark beer or ale, then baked till done. The flaky buttery pie crust will be golden brown with bready sweet savoury flavour, while the fillings will be tender and juicy with meaty salty savoury flavour. The pie is typically served with creamy mashed potatoes which carry starchy sweet savoury flavour, gooey mushy peas which carry vegetal grassy earthy sweet flavour, and a side of rich brown beef gravy for added meaty salty savoury flavour.

Beef Steak & Ale Pie

Beef Steak & Ale Pie

Beef Steak & Ale Pie

The Beef Sirloin Steak is a popular cut of meat served in most pubs as well as steakhouses across Manchester, England. Carved from the large back muscle of the cattle, a thick layer of fat on the edge aids in the cooking, whilst natural marbling running through the meat will melt and infuse it with deliciousness. Grilled to medium-rare doneness, the beef steak should be tender chewy juicy in texture, with smoky meaty savoury flavour. Served with thick-cut English potato chips which are crisp outside fluffy inside with starchy salty savoury flavour, and sometimes a small side salad (lettuce, spinach, cucumber, tomato, cabbage, or coleslaw) with crisp freshness and vegetal sweet flavour. Accompanied by a gravy boat with your choice of mushroom or pepper gravy, both are thick in texture, with the former having vegetal earthy sweet salty flavour, and the latter having savoury salty peppery spice flavour.

Beef Sirloin Steak

Beef Sirloin Steak

Beef Sirloin Steak

The Beer Bay Horse Pilsner is a craft beer German style pilsner, brewed by the Manchester Brewing Company in Ardwick, Manchester, England, specially for the Bay Horse Tavern. It has a clear orange brown colour, with aromas and tastes of honey, orange, wheat, and rye bread. The body is smooth, medium, and balanced, with bready floral earthy sweet flavour, and a gentle finish.

Beer Bay Horse Pilsner

The Beer Chop House Lager is a craft lager, brewed by the Chop House Brewery in Deansgate, Manchester, England, specially for The Victorian Chop House Company. It has a bright copper bronze colour, with aromas and tastes of wheat, corn, banana, and honey. The body is smooth, medium, and rounded, with grainy fruity honeyed sweet earthy flavour, and a short finish.

Beer Chop House Lager

The Beer Coors Light is a light American lager beer, brewed by the Coors Brewing Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States Of America. It's an entry-level beer marketed at young people, with a clear straw golden colour, prickly carbonation, and aromas and tastes of wheat, lemon, spring water, and corn. The body is thin, light, and crisp, with grainy sweet bitter flavour, and not much finish. It's a refreshing and light choice for those looking to have a few, but seasoned drinkers will stay clear of it.

Beer Coors Light

The Beer Guinness Draught is a dark Irish dry stout, named after Arthur Guinness, and is brewed by Diageo PLC in Dublin, Ireland. Among the most famous beers worldwide, this has a deep, dark black brown colour, with a creamy white foam head. The aroma and taste is similar, consisting of smoked malts, roasted coffee beans, faint caramel, and barley. The body is rich, velvety smooth, almost creamy, with a bitter sweet grainy flavour.

Beer Guinness Draught

The Beer Joseph Holt Bitter is an English bitter, brewed by the Joseph Holt Brewery in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England. It has a deep clear bronze brown colour, with aromas of caramel, cereal, oak, and blackcurrant. The body is smooth, dry, and punchy, with tastes of roasted barley, butterscotch, star anise, and pine. Has a smoky grainy woody fruity spice bitter flavour, with a peppery finish.

Beer Joseph Holt Bitter

The Beer Wolf It Down By Rudgate Brewery is a seasonal craft beer pale ale, brewed by the Rudgate Brewery Ltd in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, available in the months of September to October annually. It has a clear amber orange colour, with aromas and tastes of cereal, pine, rosemary, and grass. The body is gentle, lively, and crisp, with earthy herbal bitter grainy sweet flavour, and a lingering finish.

Beer Wolf It Down By Rudgate Brewery

The Beer Wychwood Hobgoblin English India Pale Ale (IPA) is an award-winning brown beer, brewed by the Wychwood Brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire, England. It has a brown ruby colour, with aromas of orange, milk chocolate, toffee, and honey. The body is smooth, hoppy, and resinous, with tastes of black raisins, butterscotch caramel, dates, and grapefruit. Has a floral zesty sour chocolatey bitter earthy sweet flavour, with a fruity finish.

Beer Wychwood Hobgoblin English India Pale Ale (IPA)

The Biryani Samundri is a varietal of Biryani that features springy deshelled prawns as its primary protein, generously packed within the fluffy basmati long-grain rice, flavoured with spices. At a minimum, the medley of spices used to infuse the rice include garlic paste, ginger paste, salt, cloves, cinnamon, powdered red chili, cumin seeds, clarified butter / ghee, powdered coriander, powdered cardamom, powdered turmeric, and black pepper. Additional spices may include powdered mace, powdered nutmeg, bay leaves, red onions, fried shallots, mint leaves, star anise, fennel seeds, raisins, tomatoes, cashew nuts, or saffron. The dish carries grainy earthy sweet savoury spice flavour.

Biryani Samundri

Biryani Samundri

The Black Treacle Sponge Pudding is a traditional dessert, with a base of sponge pudding made from all-purpose flour, chicken eggs, baking powder, brown sugar or demerara sugar, golden syrup, and butter. Optionally, other ingredients may be added, such as ginger, vanilla, or honey. Typically steamed, this has a spongy soft moist texture similar to a cake, with grainy floral earthy sweet flavour. It's coated in thick sticky black treacle, which is the British version of molasses made from refined cane sugar, carrying smoky salty bitter sweet flavour. Often served with a creamy scoop of vanilla ice cream, whose floral earthy sweet milky flavour contrasts and alleviates the richness of the dessert.

Black Treacle Sponge Pudding

Black Treacle Sponge Pudding

A traditional dessert, the Bread & Butter Pudding consists of buttered white bread and black raisins, coated with whisked egg, milk, nutmeg, vanilla, demerara sugar or caster sugar, and cinnamon, then baked. The texture will be soft chewy, with deep warm fruity bready sweet spice flavour. This dessert is often dressed with either creamy custard or smooth vanilla ice cream.

Bread & Butter Pudding

Bread & Butter Pudding

The classic Chicken Tikka Masala is 1 of 3 British national dishes, widely sold across Manchester, England. The key spices used include garlic paste, ginger paste, salt, powdered turmeric, powdered cumin, powdered coriander, powdered fennel, powdered cinnamon, powdered cloves, powdered cardamom, and powdered chili. Other spices used may include star anise, powdered mace, powdered fenugreek, powdered tandoori masala, or powdered garam masala. The spice mix is blended with lemon juice, yoghurt, water, and mustard oil, which is then rubbed over boneless chunks of chicken thigh as a marinade. Afterwards, the marinated chicken chunks are skewered and roasted in a tandoor oven. The chicken will have a tender and moist texture, with a lovely smoky meaty savoury salty sweet spice flavour.

The curry gravy for Chicken Tikka Masala is made by combining 2 gravies. The first gravy is a blend of fresh sliced tomatoes, sliced red onions, water, garlic paste, ginger paste, powdered turmeric, salt, sugar, fresh chopped coriander stems, cumin seeds, mustard oil, and sliced chili, similar to a puree paste. The second gravy consists of fresh diced tomato, diced red onions, water, garlic paste, ginger paste, powdered turmeric, salt, ghee / clarified butter, and sliced chili, similar to a tomato and onion stew. When combined, the curry gravy should be thick with a grainy chunky texture, and bold vegetal sweet savoury spice flavour. The dual curry gravy is combined with the roasted chicken and finished with a quick stir.

Chicken Tikka Masala

Chicken Tikka Masala

The Cider BrightCider is a Devon red apple and green apple cider, brewed by the BrightSide Brewing Company in Bury, Manchester, England. It has a clear golden brown colour, with lively carbonation, and aromas and tastes of red apple, green apple, acorn, and rain water. The body is crisp, light, and refreshing, with fruity sour sweet earthy mineral flavour. Naturally gluten free, it's suitable for vegetarians. So good I couldn't stop at one glass.

Cider BrightCider

The Cocktail Caramel Rum features a blend of white rum or dark rum, orange juice, and caramel sauce, resulting in a warm thin beverage with fruity floral earthy sour sweet boozy flavour. Other optional enhancers may be added, including brown sugar, butter, nutmeg, or cinnamon.

Cocktail Caramel Rum

The Cocktail Mulled Wine originated in Germany, where it's known as Glühwein. This features a blend of red wine, orange liqueur, lemon juice, white sugar or honey, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, star anise or fennel seeds, and ginger, resulting in a warm medium-thin beverage with fruity sweet sour earthy spice honeyed boozy flavour. In Manchester, England, mulled wine is a popular tipple especially around Christmas.

Cocktail Mulled Wine

Cocktail Mulled Wine

The Cottage Pie is a well-loved British English pub classic offered by many pubs in Manchester, England. Also known as Shepherd's Pie, it features a base of slow-cooked tender minced beef or minced lamb, juicy peas, pliant caramelised white onions, and soft diced carrots, in a rich beef gravy. Topped with smooth creamy mashed potatoes, often baked till the surface browns up. This carries robust starchy sweet vegetal grassy meaty salty savoury peppery spice flavour. Optionally, cheddar cheese is incorporated. It can be served on its own, or with a side of vegetables, such as fresh juicy boiled peas with vegetal grassy sweet flavour, crunchy broccoli with vegetal sweet flavour, or crunchy roasted hispi cabbage with smoky vegetal salty sweet flavour.

Cottage Pie

Cottage Pie

Cottage Pie

The Eggs Benedict features a base of spongy soft English muffin, buttered with bready sweet toasty flavour. Topped with a slice of tender pork ham with smoky meaty salty savoury flavour, and light poached eggs with runny yolk and eggy sweet flavour. Served in the style of an open-face sandwich, dressed with creamy hollandaise sauce with milky sour sweet savoury flavour. The beauty is cutting into the runny yolk and letting it be soaked up as it runs over the dish. Some renditions optionally add spring onions, paprika, or avocado. Other versions of this dish feature specific type of ingredient(s) that replaces the ham; Eggs Florentine has spinach, Eggs Royale or Eggs Atlantic has smoked salmon fish, while Eggs Blackstone has streaky pork bacon and tomato.

Eggs Benedict

Eggs Benedict

Eggs Benedict

The classic Fish And Chips is 1 of 3 British national dishes, widely sold across Manchester, England. It consists of a fresh fillet of boneless white fish, coated in a batter (made from water, all-purpose flour, baking soda, white vinegar, and sometimes beer or stout) then deep-fried till crisp and golden. The choice of white fish can differ widely, though common varieties include atlantic cod, haddock, pollock, hake, or halibut; most of which have a lean flaky moist texture with gentle sweet savoury flavour. Typically seasoned with salt and malt vinegar, for added sour salty kick. Served with thick cut English potato chips which carry starchy salty savoury flavour, gooey mushy peas which carry vegetal grassy earthy sweet flavour, thick tomato ketchup with vegetal sour sweet flavour, and creamy tartar sauce with milky sweet savour flavour.

Fish And Chips

Fish And Chips

Fish And Chips

Fish And Chips

The Fish Pie or Fisherman's Pie has chunks of deboned fish (atlantic cod, salmon, haddock, or halibut), either fresh or smoked, along with other seafood (prawns, scampi, squid, or scallops) and diced vegetables (carrot, white onion, celery, corn), in a thick white sauce (made from potatoes, all-purpose flour, butter, and milk, with optional white wine, cream, chicken egg, or cheddar cheese). The pie is covered with cheddar cheese infused mashed potatoes, optionally garnished with leeks, parsley, or spring onions. Cut through the torched crust and you get the tender creamy soft filling, which holds bright fishy savoury vegetal earthy milky sweet cheesy salty flavour. It can be served on its own, or with a side of vegetables, such as fresh juicy boiled peas with vegetal grassy sweet flavour, crunchy broccoli with vegetal sweet flavour, or tender carrots with vegetal sweet earthy flavour.

Fish Pie

Fish Pie

The classic Full English Breakfast is a substantial meal, typically eaten in the mornings especially on weekends, and is served by some establishments as an All-Day Breakfast. Also known as a Fry-Up due to its greasy nature, a plate will consist of several ingredients.

This includes crisp toasted buttered bread (white, rye, sourdough, brioche, or multi-grain) with smoky bready sweet sour earthy buttery flavour; soft baked beans in tomato sauce with vegetal earthy sweet flavour; 2 fried eggs with eggy savoury sweet flavour (or substituted with scrambled eggs, poached eggs, or sunny-side up eggs); crisp potato hashbrown with starchy salty sweet savoury flavour; snappy pork sausage with smoky meaty herbal savoury salty flavour (such as cumberland or lincolnshire); juicy grilled tomato with vegetal sweet flavour; chewy grilled mushroom (button, portobello, or crimini) with vegetal earthy salty flavour; and crispy pork back bacon with smoky meaty salty savoury flavour.

A unique ingredient which originated in Bury, Manchester, England, is black pudding, a tender blood sausage made from either pork or beef blood, pork or beef fat, and oatmeal or barley, carrying a mineral savoury salty earthy flavour. A filling meal.

Full English Breakfast

Full English Breakfast

Full English Breakfast

The Hot Chocolate or Drinking Chocolate is a warm beverage made from melted chocolate (either milk chocolate, white chocolate, or dark chocolate) with milk, often garnished with cocoa powder, whipped cream, or marshmallows. The texture varies, with some versions being thin and light, others being thick and velvety. Most carry chocolatey bitter sweet milky flavour. Flavour enhancers like herbs or spices might sometimes be added, especially around festive occasions, such as cinnamon, chili, peppermint, orange zest, caramel, or rum.

Hot Chocolate

The Lemon Drizzle Cake is a popular classic dessert cake, made with self-raising flour, caster sugar or golden sugar, chicken eggs, butter, lemon zest, lemon juice, and icing sugar. Optionally, baking powder, salt, or milk, may also be added. This has a soft but dense texture, with a bright zesty tangy sour buttery sweet flavour. It can be served either warm or chilled.

Lemon Drizzle Cake

Lemon Drizzle Cake

British Milk is fresh and usually pasteurised, thin but with milky sweet flavour. It's rich in calcium, vitamin B2, B5, and B12!

Milk

The Millionaire's Shortbread is also known as Caramel Shortbread, Caramel Slice, or Caramel Squares. This confectionery dessert treat consists of a firm crumbly shortbread biscuit, topped with hardened caramel and milk chocolate (or substituted with white chocolate or dark chocolate). Requiring some effort to bite into, this rich and decadent treat carries chocolatey floral sweet grainy buttery flavour. More extravagant versions, such as those containing almonds, orange zest, condensed milk, candied ginger, or salted caramel, are known as Billionaire's Shortbread.

Millionaire's Shortbread

Millionaire's Shortbread

Millionaire's Shortbread

Millionaire's Shortbread

The Orange Juice is extracted from fresh oranges, thin with fruity zesty tangy sweet sour flavour, and may either be served clear, or cloudy with orange pulp included. The health value of orange juice is debatable, as it has a high concentration of vitamin C, but also a high concentration of simple sugars.

Orange Juice

The Papadum is an Indian appetizer of thin dough discs deep-fried or dry-fried over high heat, until it turns crispy and crunchy, shattering with grainy earthy savoury spice flavour. The dough is most commonly made from salt, vegetable oil, black pepper, and black gram bean flour, although other types of flour may also be used, such as lentil flour, rice flour, or chickpea flour. A garnish of either sesame seeds or cumin seeds may sometimes be added.

Papadum

The Pigs In A Blanket Roll is a modern sandwich of sorts, with juicy mini pork chipolata sausages, wrapped in chewy streaky pork bacon, within a soft bread roll. It may optionally be dressed with thick caramelised white onion chutney, or a creamy blend of yellow mustard and mayonnaise. Combined, this has bready smoky meaty salty savoury vegetal sweet earthy spice sour zesty flavour.

Pigs In A Blanket Roll

A common side dish or condiment served as part of an Indian meal, the Raita is made with a base of plain yoghurt, buttermilk, diced cucumbers, diced red onions, and mint leaves. The result is a thick creamy chunky texture, with bright vegetal milky sour sweet herbal flavours that refresh the palate. Sometimes garnished with coriander, toasted cumin seeds, cayenne pepper, paprika, pomegranate seeds, or powdered chaat masala.

Raita

The Roast Chicken With Lemon & Herbs is a classic home style dish, featuring a rotisserie chicken rubbed with butter, salt, rosemary, thyme, lemon zest, lemon juice, black pepper, and garlic, then roasted. The chicken should have a crisp skin, with tender moist chicken meat that comes easily off the bone, carrying meaty sweet savoury flavour with a hint of salty sour herbal earthy peppery spice touch. Served with tender roast potatoes or creamy mashed potatoes with starchy salty savoury flavour, fresh juicy boiled garden peas with vegetal grassy sweet flavour, and rich brown chicken gravy for added meaty salty savoury flavour.

Roast Chicken With Lemon & Herbs

Roast Chicken With Lemon & Herbs

Named after British stateman John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, the Sandwich is a versatile meal in which 2 or more slices of bread are used to enclose other ingredients, typically meat, vegetables, eggs, or seafood. The story goes that the Earl of Sandwich, during long gambling sessions, would ask his valet to bring him salted beef between 2 slices of bread, as this allowed him to continue playing cards while eating, without needing utensils or getting his cards dirty. His friends soon caught on, and began ordering "the same as Sandwich". Today, the modern English definition of a Sandwich is "any form of bread with a filling, generally assembled cold", which excludes hot dogs and burgers due to their hot fillings.

Sandwich

Sandwich

The Sandwich Egg Mayonnaise & Bacon features soft chicken egg mayonnaise and crunchy smoked pork bacon, dressed with creamy mayonnaise between 2 slices of soft malted barley wheat bread. This carries bready sour earthy eggy sweet meaty salty savoury milky flavour.

Sandwich Egg Mayonnaise & Bacon

Sandwich Egg Mayonnaise & Bacon

The Sandwich Egg Mayonnaise & Cress features soft chicken egg mayonnaise and crisp garden cress, dressed with creamy mayonnaise between 2 slices of soft malted barley wheat bread. This carries bready sour earthy vegetal eggy sweet herbal milky flavour.

Sandwich Egg Mayonnaise & Cress

Sandwich Egg Mayonnaise & Cress

The Sandwich Ham & Cheese features tender oak-smoked pork ham with added water and pliant medium-mature cheddar cheese, dressed with creamy mayonnaise between 2 slices of soft malted barley wheat bread. This carries bready sour earthy meaty cheesy salty savoury milky flavour.

Sandwich Ham & Cheese

Sandwich Ham & Cheese

The Sandwich Ploughman's Lunch features crisp lettuce, juicy tomato, pliant medium-mature cheddar cheese, soft pickled white onions, and crunchy pickled gherkins, dressed with chunky relish (of carrots, white onions, red apples, dates, corn flour, barley flour, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, ginger, garlic, black pepper, salt, white sugar, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and cauliflower) between 2 slices of soft malted barley wheat bread. This carries bready sour vegetal earthy sweet cheesy salty spice herbal flavour.

Sandwich Ploughman's Lunch

The Sandwich Poached Salmon & Spinach features flaky deboned poached Scottish salmon fish chunks and crisp spinach, dressed with smooth salted butter between 2 slices of soft malted barley wheat bread. This carries bready sour buttery vegetal sweet savoury flavour.

Sandwich Poached Salmon & Spinach

The Sandwich Prawn Mayonnaise features bouncy deshelled prawns / shrimp, dressed with creamy mayonnaise between 2 slices of soft malted barley wheat bread. This carries bready sour sweet savoury milky flavour.

Sandwich Prawn Mayonnaise

The Sandwich Salt & Pepper Chicken features tender boneless chicken breast seasoned with garlic powder, salt, and black pepper, along with crisp wild rocket leaves / arugula, juicy tomato, and crunchy basil leaves, between 2 slices of soft oatmeal bread. The carries bready nutty meaty salty peppery spice vegetal bitter sweet flavour.

Sandwich Salt & Pepper Chicken

Sandwich Salt & Pepper Chicken

The Sandwich Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese features tender oak-smoked deboned Scottish salmon fish and soft cream cheese, dressed with smooth salted butter between 2 slices of soft malted barley wheat bread. This carries bready sour buttery fishy salty smoky milky flavour.

Sandwich Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese

The Sandwich Tuna Mayonnaise & Corn features chunky deboned skipjack tuna fish mayonnaise and juicy corn kernels, dressed with creamy mayonnaise between 2 slices of soft malted barley wheat bread. This carries bready sour fishy savoury vegetal sweet spice milky flavour.

Sandwich Tuna Mayonnaise & Corn

The Scone is a type of bread, made from either wheat flour, barley flour, or oatmeal flour, mixed with baking powder. A basic component of high tea, it can be created as sweet or savoury, and may include additional ingredients such as raisins or cheese. It usually has a dense, hard, crumbly texture, with bready sweet or savoury flavour.

Scone

Scone

A Scotch Egg is a boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs, then baked or deep-fried. Often eaten in pubs as an appetizer or snack, this has a texture that is crispy crunchy outside and tender soft inside, with bready meaty savoury salty eggy sweet flavours. It may be served alongside a fresh crisp salad (including rocket leaves / arugula, cucumber, cherry tomato, red onions, baby spinach, lettuce, cabbage, or chard) with vegetal earthy bitter herbal sweet flavours.

Scotch Egg

Scotch Egg

A Sparkling Water is a varietal of water injected with dissolved carbon dioxide gas, under naturally under geological pressure or in a manufacturing plant. This creates small bubbles of effervescence, giving the water a carbonated quality. While it can be enjoyed on its own, the most common use is as a mixer to make sparkling alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. In a pinch, it also serves as a household remedy for removing wine stains.

Sparkling Water

The Sticky Toffee Pudding is a popular British dessert, featuring a soft moist sponge cake base, usually made from all-purpose flour, baking powder, vanilla extract, water, chicken eggs, butter, white sugar or brown sugar, black treacle (a thick dark syrup of sugarcane molasses), milk, cloves, and optionally chopped dates or black raisins. It's covered in a rich sticky toffee sauce, made from black treacle, white sugar or brown sugar, cream, and butter. Combined, this carries a robust fruity earthy herbal sweet bitter spice floral flavour. This dessert is often served with either a creamy scoop of vanilla ice cream with milky floral sweet flavour, or thick custard with floral sweet flavour.

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding

The English are among the largest consumers of Tea worldwide, and many cafes and restaurants in Manchester, England, offer Tea on their menu. Originally an upper-class drink which eventually spread to become a common everyday beverage, Tea remains an important part of the British identity, and is a prominent feature of British culture and society.

Also known as Gaffer's Tea, the Tea Builder's Brew takes its name from the inexpensive brew commonly drunk by construction labourers taking a break, which is traditionally a strong black tea with a rich dark colour, always infused with a small amount of milk (or a "spot of milk"), and optionally a bit of white sugar. Workers cite this as "both soothing and stimulating", due to its earthy bitter sweet milky flavour.

Tea Builder's Brew

The Tea Earl Grey is a black tea blend infused with an essential oil extracted from the rind of the bergamot orange fruit. It has a light elegant feel, with floral citrusy sweet earthy flavour, designed to be drunk with or without milk. A number of stories link the name of the tea to former British Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, from the House of Grey (an ancient noble family); it's said the tea was created and presented to him as a gift.

Tea Earl Grey

The Tea English Breakfast is a black tea blend featuring tea leaves from India, Sri Lanka, and Kenya, with premium blends also including tea leaves from China. It has a robust full-bodied feel, with earthy savoury flavour, designed to go together with milk and white sugar.

Tea English Breakfast

The Victoria Sponge Cake is a light fluffy moist 3-layer sponge cake, made with wheat flour, chicken egg whites, caster sugar, baking powder, and butter. The layers are spread with cream and either strawberry jam or raspberry jam, while the top is dusted with powdered sugar. This carries buttery fruity sour sweet flavour, and is usually eaten for high tea or dessert.

Victoria Sponge Cake

Victoria Sponge Cake

The classic Sunday Roast is 1 of 3 British national dishes, widely sold across Manchester, England. Combining the best bits of a traditional Sunday Roast into a handheld meal, the Yorkshire Pudding Wrap is a modern snack which has been trending in recent years. This features a large chewy soft yorkshire pudding, stuffed with tender carrots, juicy peas, chunky pulled beef or pulled lamb, soft roasted potatoes, and grainy horseradish and yoghurt spread. The warm roll carries a burst of bready savoury meaty salty vegetal earthy starchy sweet spice milky flavour. Slightly messy to consume, thanks to the ample meat and vegetable juices. Often sold at Christmas markets or pop-up stalls.