Diner2 "The Beginning"

As i write I'm thinking slightly along the lines of "today all of all days I'm sat here reviewing a THAI restaurant" this is after coming home to the news that the god that is our great and mighty City manager, Sven, has been given the heave ho by our new THAI owner who obviously doesn't have a clue about football............lets hope his compatriots in the Sanuk THAI restaurant know a thing or two about food!


Arriving fashionably late i was surprised to see the Sanuk extremely busy, for a Wednesday night anyway, and entered thinking that could only be a good sign although it did seem to empty very soon after i arrived, nothing to do with me i hope. I soon made use of the complimentary crackers which, combined with a Tiger beer, soon got my appetite going and so i delved into the menu to decide on my feast for the evening. After much deliberation and shouts of "what you having" and "i was gonna have that" i went for corn cakes (or something like that) for a starter, have to say not the tastiest choice, and Beef with noodles for main. Now obviously it had some fancy Thai name for the main dish but it escapes me at the moment and this leads me to my first slight criticism in that the waitress could have given us novices to Thai food, well me anyway, some guidance on choice. If you've read diner1's review below you'll see they were slightly disappointed in the dish they chose and i have to say so was i. If the staff had mentioned something along the lines of "you might want a sauce with that" or "maybe combine that with this" i couldn't be blamed for what i ended up with. Although cooked beautifully i definitely wouldn't go for my chosen dish again as it was a bit nondescript on its own. However you couldn't fault the presentation (no you can't eat the flowers on the plate). Now there are, apparently, other criteria we looked at but I've decided i won't include all of them in one go suffice to say i liked, quite a lot, the decor and overall "experience" of the Sanuk although if you're ever the last ones left I'm sure they turn the music (authentic Thai it may be) up to that irritating level which makes you slightly hurry the last few drops of beer in your glass to escape. Value for money was excellent and overall i want to go back for some of what my other diners had............although under protest at "Franks" meddling with my beloved City!

The beginning - Wednesday 23rd April 2008

The first of many many nights of eating started at the Sanuk Thai restaurant at 810 Wilmslow Road.
Unfortunately we were missing one of our members for our inaugural meal but nevertheless we went about the important task of setting the marking criteria that would be used for each restaurant. We'll spare you the finer details of this but will post a summary of our findings on this blog.

Diner 1: Nice restaurant, modern sleek design with good use of limited space. Good service, if a little on the slow side and good selection of food. Unfortunately I chose a dish that was rather bland (Seabass and noodles) and then was very jealous of my co-diners who's food looked and tasted more as I'd expected. The presentation of the food was excellent, toilets average but overall a reasonably priced enjoyable evening and definitely a restaurant that I would recommend to others.