Michelin star restaurant Mana opens as a burger takeaway

There's 100 available each day but you'll have to join a waitlist if you want to try this high-end burger

For Manchester’s restaurants and bars, (and, well, all of us really) the last year has been all about pivoting.

Businesses have been challenged with the task of continuously adapting their offering, thinking on their feet in the endlessly changing restrictions.

We’ve seen distilleries making hand sanitizer, IPAs in milk bottles and beer and gin drive-thrus.

And now, in a move similar to one made by NOMA last year, Manchester’s only Michelin starred restaurant, Mana, has reopened as a cheeseburger takeaway for lockdown.

With 100 available per day, the burgers are available for pre-order only from Wednesday to Saturday. The first available slots booked out quickly, but we managed to get ourselves booked in to try this high-end burger.

The burger costs £17 and includes a patty made of a Lake District Belted Galloway beef made using a mix of shin, brisket and rump cap.

It is topped American-style cheese made with St Andrews cheddar and beer from Cloudwater, a koji and dill mayonnaise, iceberg lettuce and green onion paste, all piled into a potato and brown butter bun made by Pollen.

The unexpected star of the show was the tangy and fresh green onion paste which cut through the depth and smokiness of the cheese and patty.

Overall we really liked it. To just say it’s a Michelin star burger is a bit too simplistic. What we do know is that Mana plan to keep tweaking and improving and that it’s a very different burger experience to what we’re used to.

At £17 a burger it’s more of a one-off experience than a weekly takeaway (not that you could get a weekly slot if you tried), but it looks like there will be some different options on the takeaway menu soon.

Mana’s head chef Simon Martin has said he’d like to look at adding tacos and fried chicken to the takeaway menu, so it’s worth keeping an eye out for more news and dates as they are announced.

If you want to try Mana’s cheeseburger, they have just released more dinner slots at the time of writing.

To book or to join the waitlist visit: exploretock.com/mana.

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