Bright and colourful, if now a little tired, and with a terrace on the bustling Piccadilly Approach, it is the perfect place to conduct meetings over drinks, catch up on emails with a salad or wrap, or grab a quick bite to eat before the train home.
The menu is short and offers salads, wraps, burgers, steaks and main courses, together with a wide mix of meat, fish and vegetarian grazing dishes, tapas sized plates. One of which, the Chicken Satay Skewers (£4.50), I opted for as a starter dish. The tender meat, generous with the cut, was served with a delicious homemade peanut butter sauce, and was certainly better than any we have had in Oriental restaurants in town.
Michael Caines is passionate about using only the very best locally sourced, seasonal produce and this was apparent in the chicken and my main course, of beef steak. MC Cafe Bar use a locally acclaimed butcher, who sources all of his meats from the Cheshire hills. The fish is sourced from Fleetwood Market, and the shellfish comes from the freezing cold Scottish waters.
Vegetarians are very well catered for with six grazing dishes (£4.95), one Grilled Goats Cheese salad (£8.50) and a choice of mains, including English Garden Risotto (£8.95), Vegetable Noodle Ramen (£8.95) and an interesting Edamame Burger (£12.95). |