The best restaurants serving British food in Flixton Trafford North West

For a small restaurant out in the suburbs, there’s ambitious cooking going on here. Food is by way of a shortish tasting menu and, at its centre, is the aptly named “Core Menu”. That runs to six courses (they count bread as one of them) plus a couple of snacks to start and sweets with your coffee, priced keenly at £55. There’s a shorter, cheaper version and, also , a longer more expensive one. And they can also tweakr them into a gluten free version, shellfish free version and a vegetarian (but not vegan) version. We had the core version last time and that’s what we ordered again – of course,, the dishes have been seasonally adjusted since we were here in the spring and were all completely different. Those snacks are a cracking way to start. A single bite version of “Nan’s cheese & onion pie” and a deep fried “doughnut” of soft pulled belly pork. I’d have happily eaten a bucket load of the latter. And then on to the bread course. There’s a mini truffle flavoured loaf for each of us, with butter and chicken liver parfait for slathering over. And a little bowl of chicken soup for sipping or dipping (both work). Cubes of roasted (?) smoked celeriac sat in a puddle of a tasty sauce, along with cubes and thin strips of pear and a dab of what I think was a tarragon puree. I thought it a tad too sweet but nice enough. Coley is a very sustainable fish and is an easy choice to replace cod. Here a small fillet is roasted and served along with a parsnip puree, cubes of bacon, and the almost celery like flavour of lovage. The final savoury course features chicken breast cooked with Brightside Brewery’s Mancunian IPA beer from 12 miles away in Radcliffe. Long cooked leg meat goes into a mini pie (yes, that’s two pies on the menu – this is Greater Manchester, after all). And very seasonal Jerusalem artichoke makes an appearance as crisps and puree. The first dessert, described as a palate cleanser, is a mix of plum sorbet, tangy yoghurt and mint caramel. It’s delicious – fetch me another bucket. But it’s not as delish as the second dessert – milk chocolate ganache, pistachio mousse, an orange cream and an orange flavoured cracker. We finished with good espresso . It came with a couple of sweet nibbles – a sharp raspberry jelly (too sharp to work well with coffee) and a coconut, chocolate fudge – think the flavours of Bounty. Service is smiley and very on the ball.

Fantastic pub Weekly entertainment Pool table Darts board Juke box Lots of tvs and 1 outside Beautiful beer garden Lovely friendly staff and landlady

We came across the church inn during a walk . The staff were very friendly and the service was fantastic as was the food.