19-08-2016 15:00 via theguardian.com

Grafene, Manchester: It breathes ‘massive, tumescent budget’ with every tile

This has everything a box-ticking Michelin inspector could wish for: tasting menus, local provenance, ‘artisan suppliers’I was speaking to a chap very much involved in the promotion of his home town. In order to attract the monied weekending gastrotourist, he said, a city needed at least three stellar restaurants. Perhaps this is why Manchester keeps dishing up the kind of place that effectively has a “Notice me, Messieurs Michelin!” banner across its frontage, needy as a
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