IT’S the countdown to St Patrick’s Day (March 17), which this year falls on a Saturday, giving you an entire day of rest to recover from your emerald excesses. Especially if you give Mass a ...
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Alston Bar & Beef revisited – we go with the botanical flow
THE spirit is with ToM when we think of Alston Bar & Beef. This Glasgow-conceived combo of properly sourced steaks and forage-inspired cold compound gins only arrived in the Corn Exchange last October but it ...
Meet David and Des, dynamic D&D duo behind 20 Stories
D&D LONDON is what you’d call a major player in the hospitality industry. Over a decade after it emerged from a buy-out of Conran Restaurants it runs 35 restaurants worldwide, the latest of which is ...
Beast from the East, meet Beach from Below – The Liar’s Club is a sand trap
SO what do you do when the temperature is plummeting below zero and the white stuff is above your wellies? Why, head for the beach, of course. Without having to jet off. You need stray ...
The Chef's Table at 20 Stories puts Manc icons in the picture… but why?
EVERY picture tells a Story and this one tells 20 of them as a kind of 'First Supper' celebration for Manchester’s most eagerly awaited new restaurant of the year. Unlike Leonardo’s 13-strong Last Supper upon ...
Ethical + eclectic – Friska bring ‘pho to burrito’ brand to the city centre
IT’S four years since independent healthy fast food chain Friska. won The Observer best ethical restaurant award and despite expansion since hasn’t abandoned its principles of quick serve food made from fresh, quality, and responsibly ...
Northern Quarter’s Odd to be reborn as vegan cafe bar Folk & Soul
GLORIOUS news for the Northern Quarter. Odd Bar is back in business in an exciting new incarnation, rescued by a fellow early pioneer from the days when this cool district was very different, and a ...
Wilderness rockfest gig for Where The Light Gets In Sam
WHEN Sam Buckley, of Stockport’s Where The Light Gets In, was playing upright bass for brilliant Didsbury singer-songwriter Liz Green back a few years back did he imagine he would one day be sharing a ...
Life’s a Vegan Beach but my jerk jackfruit lacks colourful spice
HOW odd? As I sit at my laptop to reflect on the vegan jerk jackfruit I’ve just eaten in Affleck’s Palace an email arrives randomly offering me a link to ‘The Seven Best Restaurants in ...
What’s hot and what will be hot – our pick of 2018 openings
OUR heads re spinning here at ToM – there’s so many openings, so many projects. So if we miss you out in our (wishful thinking?) Spring Is Nearly Here Round-up, sincere apologies. Launching a new ...