[Heaton Moor, Greater Manchester] Easy Fish

From the street, you’d be forgiven thinking Easy Fish was just a fishmongers in a row of shops. Walk in and you quickly realise that this isn’t “just” a fishmongers, albeit a really good one. Round the back of the shop is a casual restaurant. We haven’t been for quite a while but spotted on the website that they have a short, well priced lunch menu - just five starters and the same mains, at six quid for the former, sixteen for the latter. They used to have a second branch in Wilmslow but that didn’t last too long and it closed earlier this year

So, to start, there’s a classic prawn cocktail – generous serving of prawns, salad and Marie Rose sauce. And, on the other plate, a small filet of smoked mackerel, served warm and accompanied by a dollop of chorizo “jam” – an underwhelming dollop of not very flavoursome red stuff

For mains there was a leek and parmesan risotto, topped with a well cooked fillet of smoked haddock. And a classic, and very nicely executed, moules frites. Again a generous portion in a well flavoured mariniere broth, enriched by a splash of cream. Nice crisp chips and two hunks of warm bread. And mayo for dunking was offered and accepted. I could have been back in Belgium!

Decent lunch all round. And we stopped in the shop and bought tuna and a couple of mackerel.

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