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Tickets still available for the MFDF dinner where you really get your goat!

Tickets still available for the MFDF dinner where you really get your goat!

TICKETS are still available for one of the final – and most fascinating Manchester Food and Drink Festivalevents – Goatober at Koffee Pot, where three of the city’s finest head chefs will showcase how good ...

3 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

GRUB launching new street food and live music venue under an arch (naturally)

GRUB launching new street food and live music venue under an arch (naturally)

YOU can understand why GRUB is on the shortlist for ‘Best Pop Up, Event or Project of the Year’ in the 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards, results to be announced next Monday (October 9). ...

3 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

New Knutsford Evuna gives us a foretaste of Mallorca Month

New Knutsford Evuna gives us a foretaste of Mallorca Month

TASTE of Manchester couldn’t resist a lunch trip over to the gorgeous new Evuna in Knutsford. We just wished the rail service was more than hourly; still, missing our planned train gave us the chance ...

2 October 2017

Simon Shaw's Spanish pop-up triumph at the MFDF Albert Square Hub

Simon Shaw's Spanish pop-up triumph at the MFDF Albert Square Hub

SIMON Shaw is the kind of chef you’d want on your side in the trenches. Nothing seems to fluster his steely resolve to squeeze the the very best out of his ingredients. Watching him muster ...

2 October 2017

We gave marvellous Moor Hall five stars, now Michelin gives it one!

We gave marvellous Moor Hall five stars, now Michelin gives it one!

ANOTHER year of MMM – Manchester missing out on Michelin – but congratulations to Moor Hall at Aughton, near Ormskirk, given a five star review after a Taste of Manchester Away Day. Everything about this ...

2 October 2017 by Neil Sowerby

It’s showtime at The Refuge – new pre-theatre menu and an extravagant birthday party

It’s showtime at The Refuge – new pre-theatre menu and  an extravagant birthday party

ONE year old this weekend and The Refuge by Volta is still a hive of activity inside The Principal Hotel. In the heart of theatre land with The Palace next door and HOME just down ...

29 September 2017

Makers Markets at Stockport and Great Northern Warehouse this weekend

Makers Markets at Stockport and Great Northern Warehouse this weekend

YET another new location for the popular Makers Market, smack in the heart of the city at the Great Northern Warehouse on Sunday, October 1. The formula, successful at regular monthly venues, the Northern Quarter, ...

29 September 2017

New bar/restaurant Store Street offers you a spanking good time!

New bar/restaurant Store Street offers you a spanking good time!

A SPANKING Roger? There’s always a first time. And before you get the wrong idea about the Doubletree by Hilton, it’s a signature cocktail at the hotel’s new ground floor restaurant and bar, Store Street ...

29 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Chef Luke’s spicy MFDF special launched at Bundobust

Chef Luke’s spicy MFDF special launched at Bundobust

GOOD to see Luke Cockerill back at the stove in Manchester – even if it is in a pop-up capacity curating special dishes for Bundobust as a one-off for Manchester Food and Drink Festival, which ...

29 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Alex Shaw teams up with Robert Owen Brown at the Hinchliffe

Alex Shaw teams up with Robert Owen Brown at the Hinchliffe

DREAM teams in the kitchen don’t come much better than this. ToM was proud to be the first media outlet to track chef Robert Owen Brown to his new dining pub venture, the Hinchliffe Arms, ...

28 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

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