Vermilion

monkeyslaper

Vermilion 4th September 2008

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With an excellent menu, this restaurant has staff and chefs who strive to exceed expectations.

Every time I visit this place, I have had an excellent experience, including trying to accomodate 20 people for dinner at the last minute.


Selecting from the main menu is difficult with such a diverse array of excellent dishes on offer.

This restaurant is in my top 3 restaurants.

TimMancs

Hidden Gem 17th January 2008

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Just got home after visiting this new restaurant that has opened up just up the road from home near Miles Platting. So the first thing to say is that in restaurant terms it's location it outer Siberia - on Alan Turing Way, off Oldham Road on the east side of Manchester. It's a brave owner that sinks such a huge amount of money into such a lavish venue in a location that promises little. The principle of restaurant attached to warehouse has been done before (e.g Glamorous, closer to the city centre) but the attention to deatil, the quality of the environment, the excellence of the food, the attentive service, must make this place a first.

We had the upstairs bar, Cinnabar, to ourselves. A fabulous space - low, multi-coloured lighting, huge pillow strewn pods for you and a dozen friends and lots of comfy chairs. Downstairs a lavishly appointed, large space is divided up by bamboo screens and expensive lighting into perfect sized dining areas. We were pleased that there were a few full tables and that as the evening went a steady flow of people arrived.

The wine list looked excellent and there are some very serious bottles - a Penfolds Grange and an '89 Chateau Lafite Rothschild for £490 - as well as plenty of cheaper ones under £20.

The food was excellent - a pre-starter of a fat juicy breaded prawn - the opposite of the ones you get in super markets where the coating is twice the thickness of the prawn - and cripsy noodles and salad. Starters included the best thai fish cakes I've ever had, crispy spring rolls and fresh crunchy thai salad. For mains we had duck red curry and assorted seafood - both of the highest quality with the sweetest, plumpest, juiciest prawns I've ever had.

Service was attentive, polite with great attention to detail that can't be faulted. Our bill for two with cocktails, a £24 bottle of wine but no pudding, came to £100, so it's not cheap but it was worth every penny

I just checked the website and it says that this place cost £4.5m to put together - it shows!. I desperately hope it succeeds and would recommend it to anyone - there is nothing like it and has to be experienced.