‘Travel to Potential’: Enish Manchester, DeanSgate, revised

Enish opened his first restaurant ten years ago in Lewisham, South London, before rapidly expanded to several places that extend to the suburbs around the UK capital and after that, taking their food so far into Dubai.

Since then, they have even opened their pretty swanky (but quite strangely sounding) sister company, ‘Enish Yacht Experience’, where you can do splashes (both in the glittering waters of the Gulf of Persian and with you, and have a lot of deserved cash) and rent a luxurious yacht via Nigeria’s restaurant chain.

At the end of October 2024, the business expanded its UK restaurant fleet on the first site of the North -North Manchester, the latest location, with the exception of the venues.

Because there are only a handful of Nigerian restaurants in the center of Manchester, the opening of the chain at the end of last year was a welcome addition to the diversity of kitchens over Deannsgate; All corners of the globe, such as sock sock in street food and bar for traditional Polish ghost, such as platzki, modern British small plate legends such as a dining destination.

Park Tonman Street on the corner of Eagle, Enish is hard to forget in the lights of the lights-if you are on the way home, you’ve got to chaos, which is this DeanSgate bumper-buzzer-hi-hour traffic, its red flame signs and inviting the heaters on both sides of the door are probably requested You leave the car and walk in.

Inside, the core of the restaurant is decorated with African art, green leather booths and seats, and the red flowers settle in the beam lit from the ceiling in the middle of the venue. Wine glasses and cutlery are neatly arranged for the following dining groups to utilize them, but unfortunately many visitors were not there to take room during my visit, which makes a cold and lonely eating experience – especially when the AC top was barking in a fairly cool environment (despite the room in the room in the room The looking digital came).

In fact, I was expecting a full house during my visit, as it said on their social media channels that Wednesday is ‘Ladies Night’, where female diners are treated with free drinks from 6pm to 9pm.

Including in person, there were three women at the scene (six, if you count staff, but I suspect they would drink), but for myself and other women’s meals were offered a free drink. Perhaps the offer is only available when there are enough customers to justify it. After all, it would be a bit tricky.

Despite the cold temperature of the restaurant, the team member welcomed us warmly, which looked us on our neatly arranged table and took our drinking order. I chose with diets (£ 5) when my partner Dave went into a bottle of Nigerian Gulder (awesome £ 12).

At first we ordered a pepper soup – I chose a goat (£ 16) and Dave decided to Jam (£ 27 – no idea why this dish almost doubles when you order a YAM version, but you go).

Both dishes arrived fairly quickly and considerably in size. The pepper soup broth tasted good, a bit spice -almost like winter stream -but the meat was as hard as old boots with a lot of gristle and bone that was quite displaced. Daven Yam was down in places, which also made eating difficult time.

Quickly moved, I decided to try the Half Chicken Suya (£ 16) experiment; The wings of the chicken are marinated in the Suna spice and on top of it with fresh tomatoes and red onion helped with Suna Spice on the sidelines. The chicken was tasty but incredibly dry, the tomatoes were more water than anything else and the raw red onion was at least a little bit of bracing. It felt like something was missing here.

Dave went with Jolof rice on top of chicken and plantain. It arrived in two separate bowls; Plantain was cut in half and sliced ​​in the middle, hidden above the mountain rice of Jolof, while the chicken marinated in tomato sauce was sitting separately. Much better, but still don’t really hit the sign.

The chicken was tasty and there was a small tang, but Jolof was not here or there and the plantain was down, so it was not caramelized properly. Again, a rich serving size, but we waited a little more for £ 22.

Our album was cleaned and we were not asked if we wanted to browse the dessert menu if we wanted a bill. After the first two courses, we decided it was probably the best, paid (98 pounds) and left.

After returning home through Google reviews, after returning home that evening and saw a real mixed opinion on this micro chain. It seems that London’s restaurants have a much higher caliber and satisfaction, while the new Manchester restaurant is not yet a name.

The members of the group we talked to were friendly and pleasant enough, but could probably make a little more information on how neglect and drinks could be provided to provide the perfect experience – we did not ask if we still wanted drinks or desserts.

It is a place with potential, and if they can nail food, pricepo and atmosphere (mainly the icy cold AC), I imagine it will follow its southern sisters. But so far, it’s not just worth a visit.

Enish, 310 DeanSgate, Manchester m3 4he