Restaurant review: The Mark Addy

Tripe, faggots, hogget… the menu at Manchester’s exceptional Mark Addy is studded with sumptuous meaty treats Stanley Street, Salford, Manchester (0161 832 4080). Meal for two, including wine and service, £75 There is about Robert Owen Brown a touch of the Dickens character; one of those sturdy, reliable ones who turn up a few chapters in when everything is looking bleak for the hero, and hangs about the page looking like a place of safety. He has ginger curls, wears unbuttoned waistcoats, calls men sir and women madam in a way that is entirely unforced, and has a robust response to anything he judges to be total bollocks. Whenever I write about his food I am compelled to mention his refusal to put the words petit pois on the menu. “They’re little peas,” he once told me. “We’re not in France.” Indeed not. We are by a canal in Manchester. I have been directing people to the pub where he now cooks for a while now, but have held off writing about it because of what might be called Owen Brown’s “stamina” issues. He has had a

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