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Bramhall - Corry's Butcher

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, July 31, 2013 0 comments

Neil Corry is a 2nd generation butcher, and has been trading for over 20 years. Corry's are in the Q Guild - I've always found Q Guild members are first class butchers.

Corry's have a great range of meat and ready to cook dishes:

They sell free range chicken from Bryn Derw Farm and also free range duck.

For the barbecue, there's a wide range of kebabs and sausage:

and a good selection of beef and lamb chops, steaks and joints.

They recently were overall champion at the Q Guild Smithfield Awards for their delicious Porchetta, pictured at the top of this post. Porchetta is a beautifully moist boned shoulder of pork wrapped in a stuffing with garlic, rosemary, and fennel. I bought and roasted a piece for a special occasion, and was looking forward to having some of the leftovers cold on the next day. The problem was that, after we'd all had second helpings, there weren't any leftovers!

Corry's Butcher

1A Ack Lane East

Bramhall

Stockport

Cheshire

SK7 2BE

Tel: 0161 439 4026

Web: www.johnpenny.co.uk/posts/corrys-butchers-bramhall-80.html

Bramhall - Cheshire Fish

Posted by Unknown Sunday, July 28, 2013 0 comments

Cheshire Fish was one of the first fishmongers I mentioned in this blog, when I visited their amazing shop in Roe Street (that address for a fishmonger always makes me smile) in Macclesfield.

I didn't realise, at the time, that they also have a shop in the precinct in Bramhall:

There's a good selection of fish here, with all the usual:

but you can also get less common fish, like the John Dory I spotted (excuse the pun) at the top of this post.

Cheshire Fish Ltd
16 Bramhall Lane South
Bramhall
Stockport
SK7 1AW

Tel: 0161 439 1261

Bramhall Bakery

Posted by Unknown Monday, July 22, 2013 0 comments

Just over a year ago Jo (who was a management consultant from Manchester) and her partner Scott (an Australian baker) opened a brand new bakery - the Bramhall Bakery. I love everything about this business, it's in a stylish new shop:

but the artisan breads are still made in the traditional way, with no added preservatives.

It was a huge problem deciding what to buy, everything looked good. All the bread is made in the shop:

The Bramhall Bloomer (pictured at the top of this post) is very popular, It's made with Cotswold and Canadian Flours and a combination of seeds and grains including barley, mung beans and linseed. I love seeded loads, and was spoilt for choice, as there were also multi seed and muesli loaves.

Scot is clearly a talented baker, and does many different specials on different days like Challah plaited loaves, Olive Sourdough and these Ciabatta:

They also do savoury twists and savoury scrolls, like these Cheese and Chutney or Cheese and Marmite Scrolls:

They also do sweet scrolls in a variety of flavours, my family enjoyed their Sticky Cinnamon Scrolls

Everything I bought (including some very light scones) was perfect. I just wish every town could have a baker of this standard.

Bramhall Bakery
6 Bramhall Lane South
Bramhall
Cheshire
SK7 1AF

Tel: 0161 439 7776

Web: www.bramhallbakery.co.uk

Bramhall - Ella's Gelato

Posted by Unknown Sunday, July 21, 2013 0 comments

I think we can officially say it's now summer! When I was a child ice-cream usually meant vanilla (which I doubt had ever seen a vanilla pod) or Neapolitan (a disgusting mixture of the vanilla with a strawberry ice-cream that didn't taste of real strawberries, and a poor chocolate ice-cream). When I first went abroad, as a teenager, I was amazed how good real ice-cream could be!

Happily you can now get some very good ice-cream in this country. Ella's make delicious Italian style ice-cream in Bramhall: