What Priscilla So and Brian Hung don’t know about beer probably isn’t worth knowing. So Priscilla has exactly the beer in mind to go with the Hong Kong-style french toast they serve at Harcourt, their new pub in Altrincham.
It’s an imperial stout from the Wander Beyond brewery, found under the arches at Piccadilly, and it weighs in at a robust 12.5%. It fits perfectly and tastes like coffee beans and chocolate, though for God’s sake don’t order a pint. You won’t be able to stand afterwards.
Harcourt is named after the Harcourt Road in Hong Kong, which is in turn named after Sir Cecil Harcourt, the governor of Hong Kong, after it was reclaimed from Japan at the end of the Second World War. It was also the staging ground for the ‘Umbrella Revolution’ in 2014, where protesters began standing up against government electoral reforms.
