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Can’t be B.Eat? We’ve been tasting what’s new on the Street

Can’t be B.Eat? We’ve been tasting what’s new on the Street

SURELY, it’s like ditching the piercings and putting on a suit? Street food going permanent – selling out, comrades? Happily, expanded B.Eat Street, up on Deansgate Mews above the space where it confirmed its Guerrilla ...

23 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

The Botanist takes over Didsbury Wetherspoons site

The Botanist takes over Didsbury Wetherspoons site

SCHOOL Lane in Didsbury Village is refreshed as food and drink destination. Solita is well settled in a site where Cibo and before that La Tasca failed to hold the attention. Now it is sharing ...

23 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Artisan’s Christmas Marketfest… and a giant Polar Bear at New Bailey

Artisan’s Christmas Marketfest… and a giant Polar Bear at New Bailey

IT’S worth stepping down Bridge Street this festive season. This Sunday (Nov 27) the monthly market event at Artisan, Spinningfields, is a Christmas special with live music all day, more than 20 stalls and pop-ups ...

23 November 2016

Barton Arcade’s Pot Kettle Black launch new cocktail menu

Barton Arcade’s Pot Kettle Black launch new cocktail menu

MAN (or woman) cannot survive by caffeine alone, so it’s good to see Pot Kettle Black serving alcohol in their beautiful Barton Arcade premises – the artisan coffee house run by the rugby lads, Jon ...

23 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

GRUB Food Fair at Alphabet Brewing Co – follow the arches!

GRUB Food Fair at Alphabet Brewing Co – follow the arches!

THIS weekly food fair goes from strength to strength. This Saturday regular Latin American maestros Yakumama will be joined by Oh/Mei/Dumpling, The Gravy Train Poutine, The Ottö-Men mezze and patisserie purveyors ChouChoux. Accompanied, of course, ...

23 November 2016

Mustard Teams Up With Moss Cider Community Project for Thanksgiving

Mustard Teams Up With Moss Cider Community Project for Thanksgiving

SALE’S Big Apple inspired diner Mustard has created its own cider ‘windfall’l to help celebrate Thanksgiving and support Manchester based community project, Moss Cider.Throughout Thanksgiving and th e winter season it is transforming bottled Moss ...

22 November 2016

Funnyman Hardeep Singh Kohli curries favour at The Gasworks

Funnyman Hardeep Singh Kohli curries favour at The Gasworks

MATCHING beer with curry is no laughing matter for comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli. These two passions come together in a Scottish tap takeover of First Street’s new Brewhouse, Gasworks, on Tuesday, November 29. He has ...

22 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Didsbury’s Reserve scoops top wine retailer award

Didsbury’s Reserve scoops top wine retailer award

CONGRATULATIONS to Reserve of West Didsbury for scooping the Independent Retailer of the Year Trophy in the 2016 International Wines and Spirits Competition. Owner Kate Goodman, well known from presenting BBC Food and Drinkshow with ...

18 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Chorlton Makers Market gets in the festive spirit this Saturday

Chorlton Makers Market gets in the festive spirit this Saturday

WITH Christmas looming it’s appropriate that the biggest Chorlton Makers Market yet is setting out its stall (well more than 85 of them) this weekend in the grounds of St Oswald’s School and Chorlton Library ...

18 November 2016

Cooper’s Hall – Basement European beer hall with a style all its own

Cooper’s Hall – Basement European beer hall with a style all its own

EUROPEAN style beer halls are very much in vogue at the moment. The wonderful Albert’s Schloss has a lot to answer for! But the imminent Cooper’s Hall – with 300 covers on an equally grand ...

18 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

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