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24.07.2022 - 16:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
More than 30 years ago, two mates were putting the world to rights over a Nepalese curry and a couple of pints when they noticed a small vegetarian cafe on Lapwing Lane, just off Burton Road in West Didsbury. Though neither of them had run a restaurant before, something about it piqued their interest.
As luck would have it, when driving past the next day, a ‘For Sale’ sign was being put up. An offer, some paperwork and a set of keys later, Greens - one of Greater Manchester’s best loved restaurants and a veteran of the veggie scene - was born.
Those two friends were chef Simon Rimmer, who you might know from Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, and his business partner Simon Connolly. The pair have since opened a number of other restaurants, and undertaken other projects, but now are coming back to where it all started.
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Back then there wasn’t much of a vegetarian scene in Manchester beyond home cooking or specialist cafes. “When we opened Greens in 1990 it felt that it was almost a negative as a type of cuisine - what you can’t eat and what you can’t do,” Rimmer says when we meet at the new outpost on Stanley Square in Sale.
Indeed, a lot has changed in the perception of vegetarian food over the last 30 years, but Greens has remained a staple of the local food scene. "Very early doors, we were the first entirely veggie restaurant in the UK to be in the Good Food Guide and we also received an AA Rosette in 1992, which we’ve had right the way through.
“I think we’ve become synonymous with modern veggie food by default almost and we’ve been trailblazing that path. If people have ever been a bit scared of veggie food we’ve always been
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