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Say Cheese! San Carlo Joins Forces with Grana Padano to Launch Unique Menu

Say Cheese! San Carlo Joins Forces with Grana Padano  to Launch Unique Menu

THERE’S no doubt who’s the big cheese around San Carlo throughout November. The iconic Italian restaurant in King Street West has teamed up with Grana Padano, one of Italy’s most celebrated cheese producers to create ...

26 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Toast of the town as Altrincham gets a topping new bread-based restaurant

Toast of the town as Altrincham gets a topping new bread-based restaurant

CRUMBS, we’d like to say it’s the best thing since sliced bread, but Altrincham’s new specialist restaurant, Toast, is much posher than that. It’s gorgeous setting in a former Barclays bank on the edge of ...

25 October 2017

All the tricks and tasty treats as Manchester goes all halloween

All the tricks and tasty treats as Manchester goes all halloween

HERE are 20 different pumpkin recipes from soups to pies to celebrate Halloween with. Just joking – ToM’s take on trick or treat. Instead, here are a few of the more “spooktakular” foodie-friendly events around ...

25 October 2017

All you need is pub – the reborn Bay Horse is looking fab

All you need is pub – the reborn Bay Horse is looking fab

AND you thought the pub was a dying institution. Maybe not – in the right hands. Hot on the heels of Steve Pilling and Angus Pride giving Didsbury’s moribund Dog and Partridge a stylish shot ...

24 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Don't miss starry two day Hanging Ditch Wine Fair at Manchester Cathedral

Don't miss starry two day Hanging Ditch Wine Fair at Manchester Cathedral

THERE are still tickets available for Hanging Ditch’s expanded Wine Fair (Friday and Saturday, October 27 and 28), celebrating a decade as one of the UK’s most enterprising wine merchants. The annual fair is held ...

24 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Big welcome to Siop Shop – permanent home for donut meisters Blawd

Big welcome to Siop Shop – permanent home for donut meisters Blawd

IT’S not just the Mackie Mayor and the new look Bay Horse giving fresh impetus to the Northern Quarter food and drink scene. Blawd Co are hardly newcomers, having been the in-house baker for Common ...

24 October 2017

Party on as GRUB relaunch at their new HQ Fairfield Social Club

Party on as GRUB relaunch at their new HQ Fairfield Social Club

GRUB, winner of Best Pop Up, Event or Project of the Year in the 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards, is launching at its exciting new venue this weekend. Expect a big party at the ...

24 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

A work of art – four Wild Beers and a matching Mary-Ellen McTague menu

A work of art – four Wild Beers and a matching Mary-Ellen McTague menu

WILD Beer does what it says on the label, brewing creatively beyond the pale, so Manchester Art Gallery sounds a perfect spot to taste a range of the Somerset brewery’sales, paired with food from Gallery ...

24 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Abandon stingrays! New £1m restaurant bar forced to re-stock its fish tank

Abandon stingrays! New £1m restaurant bar forced to re-stock its fish tank

A TWITTER storm of protest has forced the owner of a new city centre bar/restaurant to decide against filling the venue’s 118,000 litre wraparound fish tank with stingrays. Phil Healey, who launches his 1761 restaurant ...

19 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

So what did we learn from the 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards?

So what did we learn from the 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards?

Taste of Manchester Editor Neil Sowerby welcomes the wind of change in our food and drink habits. NOW the dust has settled it’s time to take stock of the 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards, ...

19 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

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