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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

The queue is back! How to get free Almost Famous burgers for a year

The queue is back! How to get free Almost Famous burgers for a year

REMEMBER the days when Almost Famous had them queuing around the NQ block? Rival establishments flocked to benefit from the burger boom, pile the patties high their aim. Somewhere along the way as AF expanded ...

28 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Vegan Festival at the Audacious Church this Saturday (September 30)

Vegan Festival at the Audacious Church this Saturday (September 30)

THERE’S a certain missionary zeal to being a plant-based devotee, so it seems appropriate that Manchester’s latest Vegan Festival is being held in Salford’s Audacious Church (co-venue being the apostate Thirsty Scholar bar) on Saturday, ...

28 September 2017

Just for starters – 12 Great Highlights of MFDF’s first half

Just for starters – 12 Great Highlights of MFDF’s first half

MANCHESTER Food and Drink Festival is under way from Thursday, September 28, as the original big city party celebrates its 20th anniversary with customary pzazz. And to celebrate that Big 2-0 MFDF, are going to ...

27 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Budding food and drink trader? The Central Library and MFDF are here to help

Budding food and drink trader? The Central Library and MFDF are here to help

SQUID ink milk, the perfect pizza, Manchester gin-making and ‘shipping container cuisine’ are all on the agenda at Recipe for Success, an MFDF Fringe event at Manchester Central Library on October 3. Contributors to this ...

27 September 2017

Taste the ale with this kegload of special events at Manchester Food and Drink Festival

Taste the ale with this kegload of special events  at Manchester Food and Drink Festival

MANCHESTER Food and Drink Festival www.foodanddrinkfestival.com , which kicks off on Thursday, September 28, has placed a greater emphasis on beer to toast its 20th anniversary, recognising Greater Manchester’s craft revolution – witness the new ...

27 September 2017

Starry chef line-up for ‘Odyssey of Taste’ at Yu Alderley Edge

Starry chef line-up for ‘Odyssey of Taste’ at Yu Alderley Edge

FOLLOWING the success of its inaugural run last year, the Odyssey of Taste is set to return to Yu Alderley Edge this October, with an incredible line-up joining Victor Yu in the kitchen. Indeed it ...

25 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

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