The 2004 Best Food Awards
The year 2004 was important for Manchester’s
culinary status and may ultimately prove a vital one. It’s now
well over 20 years since there was a Michelin starred restaurant
within the city’s boundaries. And in the opinion of most guide
writers, Manchester’s restaurants remain on a plateau; decent
enough, the best of them, but falling short of what takes to deserve
the top accolades.
Picking Chinese restaurant of the year isn’t
easy either. We ate wonderfully at the Yang Sing,
though not for review.
Of the contenders, Moso Moso, the massive, modern
restaurant opened by Raymond Wong between university campus and
hospitals complex on Oxford Road was terrific, but Wing’s
in Lincoln Square gets our vote.
Not only is this a worthy successor to
The Lincoln at its best, but it’s delightful to see our local
Chinese,
round the corner from us in Cheadle Hulme, forge such a great
reputation so quickly in the heart of the big city.
The 2004 Best Food Awards
Manchester Evening News - December 2004
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Manchester Newcomer of
the Year
Wing’s Lincoln sees modern Cantonese food reigning
at 1 Lincoln Square. The proprietor, an experienced Chinatown
chef who also has a restaurant at Cheadle Hulme, has lavished
money and thought on the interior, with its murals of Chinese
scenes, and the wine storage and state of the art kitchen. The
food is well prepared and particularly strong on fish.
Their dim sum is exceptional.
Food and Wine Awards 2004-2005
Cheshire Life – October 2004
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Getting a moove on for the
cow parade
There’s nothing like last-minute preparations
to build excitement. And the finishing touches to Wing Restaurant’s
model cow, China Moon, have certainly caught the public’s interest
for next week’s Cow Parade.
While most of the participants are ready for
the preview showing tomorrow night, today local artist Claire
Parker was
getting a move on to complete her Chinese design in front of the
crowds in Lincoln Square. The glass fibre cow is one of hundreds
taking part in Manchester’s biggest display of public art, Cow
Parade, from Monday.
When the event finishes in September, the cows
will be auctioned off for charity, but restaurant owner Wing Shing
Chu has already become too attached to his bovine friend to it
go. I am going to bid for China Moon at the auctions, he says.
I’m sure we can find a space for her in Wing.
Carmel Thomason
The Diary
Manchester Evening News - 10th June 2004
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Classy festive street eats
Two of my favourite Manchester restaurants have
taken their wares to the city’s festive streets to provide Christmas
shoppers with a top-notch pit stop. Wing’s, the respected Chinese
restaurant now well established in Lincoln Square,
and The Bridge, Rob Owen-Brown’s celebrated gastropub in Bridge
Street, are sharing back-to-back "stalls" outside Selfridges
ad Harvey Nicks in New Cathedral Street.
Ray King
Manchester Evening News - 3rd December 2004
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