O perfil de bluestreety

This was a great night.
21st wedding anniversary and this time last year we were in Mykonos, so I thought we’d better go for something a little Greek ish. I rang Dimitris and booked a table for 2 quite easily. Half past seven until nine.
We had a drink in The Shakespere across the road from Primark and keeping her ladyship out of there was a job in itself, getting me in there is just as difficult.
I always like a quick drink in The Shakespere and so it was a quick one and then we were off down to Deansgate.
We had 4 'dippers’ to start. This was pitta bread with Tsaziki, Guacamole, Hummous and Taramasalata dips. We both had the Mousaka, which was very good, but not as good as 12 months earlier in Mykonos, might have been the sea air that made it better. Maybe not!
This was enjoyed with a bottle of Kourtaki, Retsina.
This was £14.95 and last year I paid 6 euro for a 2 litre bottle in Syros.
The resturant was very busy with a steady turn over of customers, without being manic.
A couple of guys came in at the far end of the resturant, playing music and then came round with the hat, which I don’t really like but I threw a pound in anyhow. I thought the food was reasonably priced, with the Retsina being a bit over priced, as I said earlier. The bill without the Kourtaki came to £40.50, which I think is pretty reasonable in Manchester at the moment.
The dippers were very enjoyable and the Mousaka, very good.

Would I go again, YES
Would I recommend Dimitris, I just have, I think!! YES

I first discovered the Kantjil 3 years ago on a ‘boys weekend’ in Amsterdam. I’d asked the girl on reception in our hotel for a recommendation. 7 of us had a great meal and couldn’t stop talking about it when we arrived home. On the 2nd of May 2008, 3 of us lads plus another guy who didn’t come first time around, went to Amsterdam with our wives. The intention was always to go back to the Kantjil and even though we had also looked at other reviews for other places we did get back there on the sunday night. This time, like the last, we chose to have the Rijstaffel and we were not disappointed. each dish was brought to the table with a description of it. Lemon rice, mackerel, prawns, beef, pork, chicken, a selection of various vegatables. That is just a small ‘taster’ of what was put before us.
Don’t you just love it, when the food makes your mouth tingle and everyone of us thought we had a meal to remember.
The service was brilliant and the place itself is extremely clean, well apart form our table. With the dishes being passed backwards and forwards we were bound to spill some
I washed my food down with a couple of glasses of Palm beer, which is a Belgian beer, but other beers and a selection of wines were available. The price, we thought seemed a little bit expensive, certainly compared to 3 years ago, but on this particular weekend everything seemed expensive. Sunday was rememberance day and monday liberation day, so the entire city was packed, so I suppose the prices were increased to ‘make hay’. So how do you get to the Kantjil? The number 2 or 5 tram from central station run past the rear of the place with the stop being quite close. Ask for Spui, pronounced shpow. You also have a great choice of bars around the area for before or after your meal.
I will, when I get round to it post some photos of the trip, so keep an eye on my Qype.