Eating out...

I love eating out. There was a time, a long time ago, when it was difficult to do in Manchester. There weren't that many restaurants and some of the ones we had were of dubious quality. Not so now. I have been reliably informed that Manchester came out of the recent recession/depression with more restaurants than it went in with. It's a bad week in a Manchester foodie's diary when there isn't a new one opening or being announced. 2015 looks to be gearing up to be a bumper year with new restaurants opening all over the N4, in Spinningfields and in the refurbished Corn Exchange. And, while the Michelin star still eludes us, the quality of restaurants in the city improves all the time. Manchester has aspirations of regaining its position as one of the world's alpha cities and having good restaurants is seen as part of that. I'm sure the Michelin star will happen soon.

It's not only that the number of restaurants and their quality has grown. It's the diversity of them that can amaze people from less favoured places. You can literally eat your way around the world. All the major cuisines are featured in the city and a lot of the less well known ones. Burton Road in independent foodie heaven, West Didsbury, boasts no less then three Nepalese restaurants.

But this one took me by surprise. When I took the picture it wasn't properly open. But on Upper Chorlton Road where BoHo Chorlton meets Old Trafford I spotted, with Buddhist prayer flags a-flutter, what may be the city's first TIBETAN restaurant! Unless anyone knows different of course....