Jamie’s five-star winner is just for starters!

ON a roll . . . Jamie Cattermole helped to chose a five-star children’s menu — then turned chef to create his own hand-made pizza in the kitchens

Young Jamie Cattermole has become a restaurant inspector — even though he’s only 10!

Jamie, from Derker, joined a panel of local children who gave their thumbs up or down to chef Russell Brown at the five-star Radisson Edwardian hotel in Manchester.

And their votes decided which dishes made it on to the new children’s menu, to be launched at the hotel’s Alto restaurant next month.

Top of the class and guaranteed to make it on to the new menu are starters of dough balls and garlic dip and barbecue spare ribs.

Jamie, a pupil at Watersheddings School, said: “The dough balls were absolutely delicious I could have eaten loads more of them!”

The tasting panel gave their seal of approval to tomato and basil soup, curry, roast chicken dinner and a 4oz beef burger with hand-cut chips.

But a feta cheese and olive salad and a prawn cocktail were voted off their menu.

Sweets which passed the test were fresh berry jelly and cream, sticky toffee pudding, warm doughnuts with chocolate sauce, and fruit kebabs.

Jamie’s father, Steve, accompanied him on the tasting session, and laughed: “He takes after me, he’s a bit of a foodie and loves his pasta and his prawns.

“It’s a great idea for children to have an input in setting menus.

“There’s nothing worse than children having to have an adult meal or something they don’t really like off a children’s menu.

“Jamie really enjoyed it, and the hotel said the menu would be changed afterwards.”

Parents who treat their offspring to a meal at the hotel, which lies behind the facade of Manchester’s former Free Trade Hall, will also find two children’s courses are free when each child dines with an adult.