Two Michelin-starred chefs try to bring “fine dining” to Manchester.
“This was a fun programme, loaded with culture clashes, big characters and even bigger dishes (well, smaller, really, but less is more in this Wonka world).”
The Times
“The wonderful, chokingly tense Restaurant Wars on BBC2. Here, we follow brave culinary pioneers – chefs Simon Rogan and Aiden Byrne – in their aim to bring modern, clever, relatively kooky fine dining to Manchester. It’s a lovely, hour-long, rattling yarn about Michelin-star chefs and service, about water baths, nitrogen tanks, mise-en-place and varicose veins from stooping over a bench for 18 hours a day. It has sleep-deprived chefs, meddling investors, sneaky food critics and, better than all of this, a good look at the North/South culinary divide…”
Grace Dent, The Independent
