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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

Hanging ditch Wine Fair 2016 – have you got the bottle?

Hanging ditch Wine Fair 2016 – have you got the bottle?

FESTIVE markets and pop-ups everywhere but the real harbinger of Christmas for ToM is the annual Hangingditch Wine Fair, which nine years on seems to have found the perfect nest inside Manchester Cathedral, just round ...

17 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

ALL THE LATEST MEWS! B.EAT STREET JUST GOT MORE TRADERS

ALL THE LATEST MEWS! B.EAT STREET JUST GOT MORE TRADERS

AFTER only three months occupying Deansgate Mews in the Great Northern Warehouse B.EAT Street are expanding their operation. What still looks a semi-permanent pop-up back alley is gaining new traders in time for the food, ...

14 November 2016

MIRACLE ON EDGE STREET – PEN & PENCIL’S FESTIVE NQ POP-UP

MIRACLE ON EDGE STREET – PEN & PENCIL’S FESTIVE NQ POP-UP

CHRISTMAS has come early for aficionados of off-the-wall drinking dens. A big mistletoe-decked welcome to The Miracle On Edge Street. The brainchild of the team behind Northern Quarter bar The Pen & Pencil, the new ...

14 November 2016

CRAZY PEDRO’S SAYS ‘SALUD’ TO NEW NQ SITE WITH ONE TEQUILA TO SLAM THEM ALL

CRAZY PEDRO’S SAYS ‘SALUD’ TO NEW NQ SITE WITH ONE TEQUILA TO SLAM THEM ALL

PEDRO’S just got crazier – the madcap pizza bandidos’ expansion into the Northern Quarter accompanied by the unveiling of a barrel of tequila unique to these isles. Step forward Double Barrel Reposado, by Tequila Herradura ...

13 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Get your skates on and check out the wonderful Winter Gathering

Get your skates on and check out the wonderful Winter Gathering

THERE’S so much to occupy festive revellers in this season to be jolly… the traditional Christmas Markets, more upmarket Spinningfields with Bar Hütte and the B.Eat Street crew relaunching bigger and better and the Whitworth's ...

13 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Ice Skating & Winter Feasting at The Whitworth Scandi Frost Fair this December

Ice Skating & Winter Feasting at The Whitworth Scandi Frost Fair this December

HYGGE’S everywhere at the moment. You pronounce this Danish ethos of cosiness and well-being ‘hue-ga’ and it’s big hugs all round for the Whitworth, which is hosting a whole weekend evoking its spirit. The Scandi ...

11 November 2016

Robert Owen Brown and San Carlo Group join forces for winter pop-up called FEAST

Robert Owen Brown and San Carlo Group join forces for winter pop-up called FEAST

SAN Carlo haven’t hung around after snapping up neighbouring restaurant 47 King Street West. This Saturday (November 12) they are launching FEAST, a winter pop-up in the premises in conjunction with revered local chef Robert ...

10 November 2016 by Neil Sowerby

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