Greens Owner Simon Rimmer Angers Manchester Restaurant Owners Further
Consumer review agency Which? have released the Which? Good Food Guide 2009. The guide gives independent reviews and comprehensive details of about 1,000 UK restaurants. Manchester has a reputation as a hot bed of top food outlets in the UK but this year, Manchester restaurants have been put down by the Which? Good Food Guide. A pathetic 3 restaurants from the South Manchester area have made it into the guide and this has become a big issue in the North West of England.
2 top restaurants in the south Manchester area have now lost their Michelin awards. Palmiro in Whalley Range and Didsbury restaurant Jem & I, have both dropped off of the Michelin Bib Gourmand award list for good food at moderate prices for 2009. What does the future hold and does this mean that restaurants in Manchester have their days numbered. The country as a whole is now officially in a recession so people’s budgets have decreased and competition has already started to get much tougher.
Celebrity TV chef Simon Rimmer, star of BBC Saturday morning TV show Something for the Weekend and another show; Recipe for Success, has slammed restaurants in south Manchester. Simon Rimmer’s own restaurant Greens, is one of the limited Manchester restaurants that got into this years Good Food Guide. Rimmer has been quoted as saying “It has always been one of my biggest criticisms of the restaurant scene in south Manchester, that it has become so incredibly chain led. I think that the Which? Good Food Guide is a relatively accurate reflection of what is on offer across south Manchester.”
Simon Rimmer’s quote has angered and infuriated other south Manchester restaurant businesses who have hit back by stating that Manchester has a wide and high quality dining scene. Lots of different people think that south Manchester has plenty of awesome places to eat and that more inclusions were deserved for Manchester in the food guide.