Halloween at Tattu Manchester
Ian Jones, Food and Drink Editor
Halloween 2024: Tattu Manchester is launching five days of Skullduggery on Friday 25 October to celebrate Halloween. One of the best-looking spaces in Manchester, expect luminous green hues, terrifyingly good limited edition specials, a bottomless brunch and a Sunday Sunset closing dinner.
Limited edition Halloween specials include; Pumpkin Dumplings dressed with a spider’s web garnish and a touch of sweet chilli “blood”, a ghostly Yuzu Drop Dessert embalmed in passion fruit, shiso, and almond. To pair, Tattu’s expert mixologists have created some spine-chilling elixirs such as the Dragon’s Curse cocktail in collaboration with Ojo De Dios Mezcal and Deadman’s Chest: a four-person sharing cocktail created exclusively for Halloween (Beluga Noble Vodka, tequila, Cointreau, raspberry, lychee and lime).
On Saturday 26 October, revellers can monster mash the day away to Tattu’s resident DJs at the Skullduggery brunch and enjoy an exclusive two-wave menu of Chinese-fusion dishes, such as pumpkin and pork bao and seven spices seared tuna as well as wok fried angry bird chicken and balsamic teriyaki salmon, served alongside a free-flowing cocktail package followed by late night drinks and dancing into the witching hours.
To round off, Tattu will be hosting its Sunday Sunsets closing dinner exclusively at the Manchester branch with the help of DJ Newman.
Tattu’s limited edition specials will be available from Friday 25 – 31 October, while the Saturday Brunch will only be available on Sunday 26 October from 12-3:45pm. Sunday Sunsets closing party will be held at Tattu Manchester on 27 October, the menu will be priced at £65 pp.
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Restaurant review spring 2023: Manchester is growing in height and status, with a fast-moving skyline to rival any major capital city. Of course, a world-class city needs a world-class food scene and Tattu is at the forefront regarding taste, ideas and that all-important wow factor.
A new menu here is always a cause for celebration, and these new spring-themed dishes are all about the cherry blossom – a nod to both the eye-catching tree that stands tall in the main dining area and the upcoming season of rebirth and fresh flavours.
Tattu has nailed modern dining in modern Manchester
The salt and pepper loin ribs can’t be praised enough. Coated in a thick sticky sauce, heavy on the garlic and five-spice, the meat is tender and soft, and happily there’s plenty of it. If you’re looking for the darkest, most decadent ribs around, head here.
For meat, it has to be Tattu’s new show-stopping dish: seven ounces of Japanese black Wagyu. It’s not cheap, but the best things rarely are. The chefs start the cooking process off in the kitchen, and then the tender strips of beef turn up at the table on a piping hot Himalayan salt block, scattered with tiny enoki mushrooms and with a bowl of shallot soy.
This is beef from cows that spend their lives being constantly massaged and, well, it shows. Each bite is unforgettable, so rich and packed with flavour, bolstered by the hot salt. It’s the most memorable dish on a menu packed with dazzling dishes.
The Phoenix Nest is a next-level dessert, almost like a cylindrical birthday cake made from thick marshmallow, and peanut butter fudge and honeycomb. At any normal restaurant it’d be an award-winning sweet, but Tattu manages to kick things out of the park with the Cherry Blossom.
A sublime way to end the springtime menu, this undeniably dramatic dish is a lot of different things, all built around the idea of an edible bonais-style version of the restaurant’s famous cherry blossom tree. This means candy floss for the blossom, a chocolate tree and branches, a biscuit crumble for the base, plus shiny black cherries and a cherry sorbet – with a whole host of dry ice swirling around your table, like when a mountain pierces through the clouds. The visual experience is worth the price alone, but it somehow tastes as good as it looks.
Tattu has nailed modern dining in modern Manchester. The restaurant holds its own next to the city’s more traditional high-end establishments, such as The French, with food and drink concepts that are stunning – some may even say outlandish – but always first-class.
