IF any city knows how to throw a party it’s Manchester. Barely a week after the mega launch bash for Refuge by Volta it was time to welcome Hispi in the former Jem & I ...
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Top wine mag salutes Salut – UK’s best small retailer
CHEERS to Salut for being named Small Retail of the Year 2016 by the influential wine magazine Decanter. The Cooper Street merchant/wine bar won judges over ith its ‘incredible buzz’ and ‘brilliant wine selection’. Decanter, ...
Party on... Manchester Food and Drink Festival off to a flying start
THE Manchester Food and Drink Festival 2016 is underway. Ten days of unabashed culinary hedonism ahead culminating in the Manchester Food and Drink Awards Gala Dinner and Presentation at the spectacularly revamped Palace Hotel on ...
Rumours were right! Mackie Mayor set to become Altrincham-style food hall
WHOEVER though Altrincham would show Manchester the way in food and drink? OK, once upon a time it boasted the only Michelin star around at Juniper, but Altrincham Market House reached out to many more ...
Rabbit On The Moon, Michael and Luke’s Space Age Asian Tasters atop Urbis
WE never saw this one coming Michael ‘Man behind the Curtain’ O’Hare opens a restaurant in a spot that has never needed curtains. Indeed it was not until the doomed Le Mont morphed into the ...
Damson Media City – sorry to see you go
IT seems these days that each time a ‘modern English’ fine dining establishment gives up the ghost a new tapas joint appears on the scene. But it’s unique for it to happen within the same ...
More tickets released for Real Junk Food Project MCR 'Binner Party'
THERE’S a real demand for junk, it seems – the kind of ethical and delicious food served up by the Real Junk Food Project Manchester Manchester. Tickets for their Binner Party fundraiser, an MFDF Fringe ...
Chefs cooking live headline MFDF Hub in Albert Square... and there’s so much more
THE two Saturdays of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival always generate the biggest buzz around the Festival Hub in Albert Square with the street food stalls doing a roaring trade and the beer tents ...
MFDF hoppy heaven – Wainwright Bar, 100 Greatest MCR Beers and Albert’s Schloss exclusives
DRINK. A delicious word that sometimes gets overshadowed by the ‘Food’ part in Manchester Food and Drink Festival. Yet it plays a massive role in the 12 day long celebration (September 29 to October 10). ...
Choose you favourite bar, pub or restaurant – at the MFDF Awards your vote counts
IT’S your last chance to cast your vote in the coveted Manchester Food and Drink Awards 2016. The public vote closes at 9am on Wednesday, September 28, so click into the MFDF website and make ...