CHRiSTMAS brings out the best in hotel dining rooms and nowhere does the season of good cheer better than The Lowry. Partnering sumptuous festive Christmas decorations with food to match from fine young chef Andrew ...
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First look at Bundobust – veggie street food sensation from across the Pennines
THE wow factor is a term too easily employed. Like legend. But both look bound to apply to a beautifully adapted basement in an unlovely stretch of Piccadilly, home to the newly arrived Bundobust. The ...
Bundobust and Seven Bro7hers – two refreshing new openings
IT’S neck and neck, but Bundobust looks set to pip Seven Bro7hers Beerhouse to the post by a day in the race to open before Christmas. The first, opening on Wednesday, December 14, in a ...
Matas take full control of Tapeo as partners pursue new project
IT’S all change at the helm of Tapeo, a contender for best Spanish restaurant in a crowded Manchester market under the fastidious stewardship of Nacho Perez and Natalia Esquerado. Now they have parted company with ...
Polish and Jamaican flavours spice up The Kitchens
THE unlikely saviours of the Spinningfields Leftbank Kitchens are a trio of Polish lads specialising in potato pancakes and a 22-year-old messiah for authentic Jamaican soul food. They are the pop-up back-up for the deserved ...
Tickled by Bad Santa’s five Christmas turkeys
WELL it seemed a good idea at the time. We’re not talking Christmas party goofs or voting for Brexit. Just those seasonal ‘specials’ that in the cold light of January will seem as silly as ...
Season-closing Makers Markets in Eccles and the Northern Quarter
THIS time of the year is a busy one for the popular Makers Markets. Certainly the craft and gift stalls hope to catch the eye of potential Christmas prezzie purchasers, with festive food and drink ...
Vegan and Artisan Christmas Market at Altrincham FC
ALTRINCHAM FC may be out of the FA Cup but there’ll be a real hunger about the ground on Sunday (December 11) when it hosts the town’s inaugural Vegan and Artisan Christmas Market. Organisers of ...
Our favourite food and drink books of the year
THESE are very personal choices from another prodigious year of cookbook publishing. I make no apologies for ignoring bestseller lists heavy (though that’s not’s the right word) with body-conscious, guilt-trip, clean eating tomes written by ...
Get merry! Seasonal GRUB Food Fair at Alphabet Brewing Co
ALPHABET spells Christmas this Saturday (December 3) as the Piccadilly Beer Mile brewery puts a seasonal spin on its regular weekly collaboration with street food organisers GRUB. So expect a ‘stollen’ flavoured version of Alphabet’s ...