Bundobust has launched a brand new menu to celebrate the booziest month in the German beer calendar - Oktoberfest. And this Indo-Germanic mash up might just have stumbled upon one of the very best beer snacks in the whole city.
The Manchester Evening News donned its lederhosen and went to check it out, with its stunning garam masala and turmeric pretzel being the star of the show.
Working with Pretzel & Spelt, a Bavarian bakery based in Bolton, the warm bread twist is shot through with fragrant ajwain seeds, black salt and mango powder.
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It’s served with a classic currywurst dip and new ‘prost pickles’ (carrot, mooli radish, turnip and cauliflower, with mustard, dill, chilli and peppercorns), and is best accompanied by a pint of the brewery and street food icon’s Bundobar!, a new German style Schwarzbier using Munich and Vienna malts.
The pretzel is among a host of dishes celebrating both the restaurant’s love of brewing and love of great street food.
The ‘kartoffelpuffer’ are potato and sauerkraut fritters spiced with fenugreek, fennel and chilli, served up with a smooth apple and cinnamon chutney which tastes exactly like Christmas. Then there’s a potato salad - bataka salat - with purple and new potatoes, dill, curried sour cream, tamarind chutney and crunchy samosa pastry.
Also a solid winner are the curryworst koftas, ‘desi dumplings’ made from cauliflower, cabbage and carrot, floating in a classic currywurst sauce - the kind found covering sausages and frites from Berlin to Bavaria - and a dusting of curry powder.
The dishes range from £3.50 to £7 for the koftas, or you can get the whole lot - plus a classic chole saag and some okra fries thrown in - for £32, with the menu running up to October 23.
It’s just the latest in a series of mash-ups from the Bundobust team. Earlier this year, it saw them collaborating with Liverpool’s Maray restaurant, with a menu of Middle East meets Sub-Continental treats.
Then over the summer, it embraced Indo-Chinese heritage with a mix of noodles and Manchurian influenced dishes.
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