Bread & Butter – Northern Quarter

Bread & Butter is a cross between a proper old school lunchtime buttie shop (see Rustica) and a trendy Northern Quarter eatery. The menu at Bread & Butter has a heavy Mediterranean influence, with the homemade roasted vegetables, garlic mushrooms and spicy chickpeas being a particular highlight. The usual choice of deli meats, salads and condiments are of course available, should you choose. Everything is available on the standard baguette or ciabatta, but what really sets Bread & Butter apart is the piadina – a cruncy flatbrad from the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. The fillings are spread across the bread, which is then folded and placed on a griddle pan. Why piadinas haven’t taken off in a bigger way is beyond me, because they’re delicious. My favourite has to be roasted veg, hummous, spinach and feta cheese.