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CHEERS! THREE UNMISSABLE MFDF WINE EVENTS

CHEERS! THREE UNMISSABLE MFDF WINE EVENTS

Secret Wine Tasting Treasure Hunt with Andy The Wine Guy A flight of five high quality wines to be served at a secret, historic Manchester location, disclosed on the night via a short series of ...

18 September 2016

BEST OF MFDF FRINGE: Real Junk Food Manchester Presents The Binner Party – A Celebration

BEST OF MFDF FRINGE: Real Junk Food Manchester Presents The Binner Party – A Celebration

GET hold of a copy of Sunday’s Observer Food Monthly to read a fascinating account of the Real Junk Food Project over in Leeds. ToM was only sorry the writer didn’t cross the Pennines to ...

18 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Nigel Haworth and Simon Rogan shortlisted for AA Chef of the Year

Nigel Haworth and Simon Rogan shortlisted for AA Chef of the Year

TWO of the North West finest culinary exponents make the six-strong shortlist for AA Chef of the Year – Simon Rogan (below) of L’Enclume, Cartmel, and The French, Manchester, and Nigel Haworth (above) of Northcote ...

17 September 2016

GRUB FOOD FAIR GOES WEEKLY AT ALPHABET BREWING CO

GRUB FOOD FAIR GOES WEEKLY AT ALPHABET BREWING CO

AS one door closes, as they say, another opens. So as pop-up maestros GRUB brought their monthly Food Fair at Runaway Brewery to an end for 2016 on Saturday, September 17 they promptly announced their ...

17 September 2016

THE FRENCH HEAD CHEF ADAM REID REACHES GREAT BRITISH MENU FINALS

THE FRENCH HEAD CHEF ADAM REID REACHES GREAT BRITISH MENU FINALS

ADAM REID, head chef at The French by Simon Rogan, is through to the national finals of BBC Two’s Great British Menu. Adam, from East Manchester, fought off tough competition from Cheshire-born Kim Woodward from ...

16 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

EVERYBODY MUST GET STEINED! ALBERT'S SCHLOSS STAGES ITS OWN OKTOBERFEST

EVERYBODY MUST GET STEINED! ALBERT'S SCHLOSS STAGES ITS OWN OKTOBERFEST

IN the absence of a burly Bavarian Burgermeister, who better than Manchester’s Lord Mayor Carl Austin-Behan to follow tradition and broach the first keg of Albert’s Schloss’s inaugural Oktoberfest? And he did it with all ...

16 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Manchester Food and Drink Festival 2016 – our big, fat, treat-packed preview

Manchester Food and Drink Festival 2016 – our big, fat, treat-packed preview

IT’S the big countdown to the Manchester Food and Drink Festival 2016. Under a fortnight to go, then it’s 12 action-packed days from September 29 to October 10, 2016, culminating in the Gala Dinner and ...

15 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Vote for your favourites in the 2016 Manchester Food and Drink Awards

Vote for your favourites in the 2016 Manchester Food and Drink Awards

THERE’S still time to cast your vote for your favourite restaurants, pubs, bars and chefs in the countdown to the coveted Manchester Food and Drink Awards 2016. The big winners will be announced at the ...

15 September 2016

Seek out these Five Street Food Faves at the MFDF Hub in Albert Square

Seek out these Five Street Food Faves  at the MFDF Hub in Albert Square

JUST a fortnight to the start of the 2016 Manchester Food and Drink Festival. It’s a citywide event, venturing far with its Fringe Events, but the the focus is inevitably the Festival Hub in St ...

13 September 2016

Mark Poynton joins Nacho Manzano at Iberica for MFDF 2016 game dinner

Mark Poynton joins Nacho Manzano at Iberica for MFDF 2016 game dinner

A GAME themed dinner by two Michelin chefs at the top of their game – it has to be one of the highlights of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival. So stick in your diary ...

13 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

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