By Neil Sowerby A DECADE after winning Restaurant of the Year in the Manchester Food and Drink Awards the Market Restaurant, on the corner of HIgh Street and Edge Street, has shut. A sad day ...
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Dockyard lands in the increasingly shipshape Left Bank of Spinningfields
THE repopulation of Spinningfields Left Bank with credible food and drink venues continues apace with the opening of The Dockyard, little brother of the Media City original, which scooped Pub of the Year in the ...
Art Deco Decadence rules the rooftops as the Hotel Gotham launches in some style
THE most dramatic hotel to arrive in Manchester for decades is up and running.The 60-room Hotel Gotham has opened its doors in the Edwin Lutyens-designed Grade II listed Midland Bank building at the top of ...
Scene: Indian Street Kitchen and The Kitchens Kickstart Left Bank Revolution
SPRING and Spinningfield’s Left Bank is stirring back to life with some interesting food and drink openings. What was once a ‘death row’ of dull chain eateries overlooking the Irwell is now playing catch-up with ...
Celebrate the Thai New Year at Vermilion with a Songkran banquet
THE Thai New Year starts on Monday, April 13 and lasts for three days. Back in Thailand the Songkran Festival celebrations are spectacular (see above). In Manchester, the next best thing is to book the ...
Cloudwater Brewery Open Days – Give them a Swirl
CLOUDWATER is a lovely name for a brewery. All swirly. It is a translation of the Zen Buddhist term unsui, taken from a Chinese poem: “To drift like clouds and flow like water.” It gives ...
Castlefield and Shebeen – more merry mini-festivals spring up
YOU could sometimes feel each day brings a new festival. In food terms the Manchester Food and Drink Festival in September is still the year’s mega event, but if you need to whet your appetite ...
Real HOME cooking – a missed opportunity in Manchester’s new arts complex?
By Neil Sowerby THERE were a few sore heads after the Cornerhouse’s closing bash, but the tears are drying and it’s time look forward to its replacement, HOME, which officially pens on May 21. Cinema, ...
Electrik – still one of Chorlton’s switched on bars
ELECTRIK has, of late, been overshadowed by its South Manchester stablemate, Volta. Both bars, owned by the Unabomber DJ duo, boast a similar drinks line-up and thrift store chic look but the Burton Road establishment ...
Power to the Common People – A bar revamps without losing its art-led soul
NORTHERN Quarter stalwart Common, shut for a few weeks, is back with an impressive new look (take a look, tell us what you think) – and, of course, a relaunch art show to set you ...