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On Sale Now: Tickets for Thomasina Miers’ Mayfield Mexican Day of the Dead Banquet

On Sale Now: Tickets for Thomasina Miers’ Mayfield Mexican Day of the Dead Banquet

SPOOKY eh? Jaw dropping high jinks are promised as the Mexican Day of The Dead goes live at the Mayfield for Manchester Food and Drink Festival – one more step in bringing the abandoned Piccadilly ...

3 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Poetry, pints and sweet sounds at Sadler’s Yard Summer Jam

Poetry, pints and sweet sounds at Sadler’s Yard Summer Jam

ALL tickets have gone for the Sadler’s Yard Summer Jam this Saturday (August 5), but there is a limited number of on the day walk-ins for this free festival of music food and beer, which ...

2 August 2017

FORGET FOOD MILES AND WIN LOCAL VEG BAGS FROM THE CITY'S HIGHEST GARDEN

FORGET FOOD MILES AND WIN LOCAL VEG BAGS FROM THE CITY'S HIGHEST GARDEN

FRESH produce from The Printworks? Well, we knew they had a garden on the roof but the thought of spuds, strawberries, peas, spring onions, rhubarb all growing only a floor or two above Tiger Tiger ...

1 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

MAN Vs FOOD APPROVED ‘lucky lucky katsu curry’ PIZZA is Pedro's August Special

MAN Vs FOOD APPROVED ‘lucky lucky katsu curry’ PIZZA is Pedro's August Special

AFTER its successful role in the Sauce and the City campaign with Adam Richman and sauce specialists Meat Lust, the Lucky Lucky Katsu Curry pizza is announced as Crazy Pedro’s August special. Curry was originally ...

1 August 2017

Not just Dry Bar… craft beer bar No 1 Watson Street to shut

Not just Dry Bar… craft beer bar No 1 Watson Street to shut

THERE are so many openings in Manchester, it’s easy to miss the quiet closures. ToM always liked No 1 Watson Street, a pleasant craft beer bar with a good range, but it never felt an ...

1 August 2017

Royal Exchange at last to get a restaurant to match its dramatic setting

Royal Exchange at last to get a restaurant to match its dramatic setting

WHEN so many glorious Manchester spaces have been transformed into bars and restaurants and even our arts venues are paying more attention to their food and drink offering – witness Manchester Art Gallery hiring Mary ...

1 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Adam Reid at The French cuts back its lunch operation

Adam Reid at The French cuts back its lunch operation

BACK in March we reported on a serious makeover of The French, consistent with chef Adam Reid’s determination to lighten the fine dining experience following the departure of Simon Rogan. With his name over the ...

1 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Bab and Honey Trap – gourmet kebabs and a louche basement bar

Bab and Honey Trap – gourmet kebabs and a louche basement bar

GOURMET kebabs – ToM likes the sound of Bab, latest venture from the NQ’s Pen and Pencil folk. They are even throwing in a ‘Berlin-style’ basement dive bar called The Honey Trap below the 55-cover ...

28 July 2017 by Neil Sowerby

First look: Flok sherry and wine bar

First look: Flok sherry and wine bar

SHERRY’S a wine on the wane. In a world where insipid prosecco sales go through the roof that’s a shame. Sadly Spain’s unique fortified styles have an image problem. It’s meant that sales have halved ...

28 July 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Five Manchester restaurants and the entire Usher stable in UK Top 100

Five Manchester restaurants and the entire Usher stable in UK Top 100

THERE was much lamentation when Manchester’s most high profile fine dining establishments, Manchester House and Adam Reid at The French failed to make the UK Top 100 in the Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards 2017. ...

27 July 2017 by Neil Sowerby

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