In which restaurants and with which chefs would you like to be confined?

[Harters (John Hartley - a culinary patriot, cooking and eating in northwest England)]

I’m going for a local bistro - the Lime Tree. It’s seasonal, generally local, food cooked entirely in keeping with its North European location. It’s not the “best” restaurant we regularly visit, nor even our favourite one. But, if I’m confined there and have to eat their food, then this would be it. This is the last review I wrote for HO - not a perfect meal but certainly nice enough.

[West Didsbury, Manchester] Lime Tree

When you keep coming back to a place, you can quickly run out of new nice things to say about it. And I’ve run out. Suffice to say that this visit was as good as all the previous ones. There was a chicken liver pate to start. Full-on flavour of the pate contrasted with lightly pickled mushrooms and a not overly sweet carrot chutney. More contrast from toast and some salad leaves. A smoked salmon plate was more of an assembly job. It came with a pate – actually just chopped salmon bound together…