Tattu 

Tattu is a restaurant in the heart of spinning fields, providing a “Contemporary Chinese cuisine, fusing traditional flavours with modern cooking method and exquisite presentation”

Tattu is an independently ran family business founded in 2015, with a vision to reinvent Chinese food and create a new trend of altering people’s perceptions of a dining experience as a whole. Since 2015, Tattu has opened eateries in Leeds and Birmingham as well as Manchester.

The interior design of Tattu is similar throughout all chains of the restaurant, using a modern version of iconic Chinese décor such as the use of the large light up chery blossom tree in the center of the building, which is complemented well with low lighting around the rest of the room, to focus attention on the tree itself.

 

The food menu changes throughout seasons, as Tattu use various ingredients which is only available in the UK at specific times in the year. For starter, I had the honey glazed pork belly which included 4 small squares of pork belly, with a thin layer of fat and crackling on. This was then glazed in a thick rich, sticky sauce. i then went onto have the black bean chicken  which came with a side of rice. I Felt this was slightly lacking an overwhelming flavour of black bean but none the less, the portion size was perfect.

 

For desert I had the Chocolate orange melt in the middle pudding which had a dusting of gold on top, accompanied with three purple edible flowers and a small scoop of vanilla ice cream. The chocolate pudding was perfect and as I cut into it, it oozed out chocolate orange flavoured liquid, which also had a slight taste Christmassy taste of cinnamon. My friend also had an interesting desert which was a matcha cheesecake. This had been displayed as an almost de-constructed cheesecake with biscuit crumbs scattered over the plate, three blobs of ice cream and green matcha cheesecake filling, wrapped in a thin coating of a raspberry set sauce which melted In the mouth when eaten.

Overall I believe that although Tattu is an expensive eatery, it does offer something that no other restaurant offers to this extent, in terms of the eating experience as a whole. The menu itself was the most well thought out I have ever seen and it caters to almost all tastes. I think that Tattu however would not be as spectacular without the extravagant decor inside and maybe without this it may seem on a par with similar eating experiences such as the alchemist who focus on the experience as a whole rather than just food and drink.