KING Street has been shaking off its torpor with a retail resurgence and, more high profile, the arrival of top-end restaurant/bars El Gato Negro (above) and Quill. Now it is putting is putting itself in ...
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Gasworks Brewbar to bring fresh hoppiness to thirsty First Street
YOU can’t have a Dockyard without a waterfront, so the third pub from Steve Pilling following The Dockyards at Salford Quays and Spinningfields Leftbank is to be called The Gasworks Brewbar – because it is ...
RIBS WITH A PUNCH AT GRUB’s LATEST FOOD FAIR AT RUNAWAY
GRUB’s latest Food Fair at Runaway Brewery on Saturday, May 21 offers a typically eclectic mix of street food – from Andy Low ’N’ Slow (legendary BBQ from Birmingham, pictured above), On The Goa (authentic ...
Food of champions from two Spanish masters at Iberica
THE day before Seville again showed how unbeatable the Spanish are at football two master chefs from that country joined forces in Manchester to demonstrate its culinary supremacy. We, who were lucky enough to be ...
Wine, beer and ROB – Bangers & Bacon's trio of meaty treats
THOSE mighty meat purveyors at Bangers and Bacon have lined up a trio of special events at their Kitchens Leftbank base. Non-carnivores aren’t excluded but they might not get bang for their buck at the ...
Mike Jennings on his new challenge as head chef at Neighbourhood
MIKE Jennings is hiring sous chefs in a hurry. Snapped up to front the kitchens at the refurbished Neighbourhood after his own venture, Grenache in Walkden, closed, this is a whole new beginning for one ...
Let’s get tanked with the one true Budweiser Budvar at The Oast House
THIS is Jo Miller, almost cuddling the shiny copper tanks holding the beer she’s so passionate about. Oast House regulars seem to share that passion. They are currently getting through 500 litres a day of ...
Arndale Market's Micro Bar offers some tempting food matches
MARK DADE is a man for firsts and thirsts. Back in the Eighties he was the first brewer at groundbreaking Marble before setting up Boggart Brewery in North Manchester around the start of the 21st ...
THE BITERS BIT – CASTLEFIELD FOOD FESTIVAL PUTS THE CRITICS ON TRIAL
SUNDAY’s celebrity chef demos are the culmination of four days of food-fuelled fun at the second Castlefield Food Festival (May 12-15) with a formula following last year’s inaugural event, which attracted more than 15,000 folk ...
Open invitation to Tim Bacon service – and why Red Door meant so much
AS Manchester prepares to commemorate the extraordinary life of Tim Bacon at a a special open-to-all memorial service at 1pm on Monday, May 16 it seems fitting to toast the hospitality legend’s final project – ...