BLESSED are the cheesemakers (with a nod to Life Of Brian). Multi award-winning Martin Gott, creator of the Lake District’s iconic St James cheese (above) has landed in Altrincham. He has set up a shop ...
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Chilli B brings a Taste of Thailand to the Mackie Mayor
CHILLI B, by May Wakefield, is set to open inside the former Smithfield Market building, Mackie Mayor on Tuesday, October 22, taking over the Baohouse stall. This authentic Thai will offer a regularly changing menu ...
YO! rugby dudes – propsticks give big blokes a handle on sushi
OCCASIONALLY one of those desperate PR stunts chains indulge in takes our fancy – especially when it hooks itself on topicality. So let’s all scrum down for Propsticks, giant eating tools from YO! Ww wondered ...
Boojie hot dogs and amaro the flavour of Speak in Code team’s new NQ bar
LET’S just say it has been quite a year for Nathan Larking and his cutting edge vegan cocktail lounge Speak In Code. Among the landmark moments – being shortlisted for Bar of the Year in ...
Your face on a personalised pint of Guinness? Go with the flow at Waxy O’Connor’s
A UNIQUE part of the major refurb at Waxy O’Connor’s is the trial run of the Ripple Maker with Guinness. The Printworks’ own little corner of Ireland is the only pub in the UK to ...
The Cubanos revolution returns as FINCA pop up at Northern Monk
A YEAR’S a long time in dining out. It’s not much more than 12 months ago that Cuban street food maestros FINCA were making an impression at Artisan. Then their Cubanos sandwich focused pop-up at ...
Meet the new look Lowry Hotel and its head chef Dave Ashton
TWO dishes sum up the refreshed restaurant regime at the River Restaurant (if you’ll pardon the alliteration). The first a Cornish crab starter dreamed up one dawn in new head chef Dave Ashton’s home kitchen, ...
Mein Gott, Oktoberfest with all its oompah is now at Mayfield
STOPTOBER? No way when you could be squeezing into those leathery hosen for a spot of oompah at the Yards at Mayfield. Ja, Manchester Oktoberfest is back for its sixth year of filling us all ...
GRUB celebrate their fifth birthday – and MFD Awards success
SEEMS odd that the the Fairfield Social Club will be hosting the ‘Free From’ special dietary festival this weekend (October 18) while perennial winter resident GRUB is holding its Fifth Birthday Party elsewhere, over at ...
Book now for Free From Festival at Fairfield Social
THE Fairfield Street Social has hosted everything from weddings to wrestling. A first, though, is the upcoming Free From Festival on Saturday, October 19 – the UK’s first devoted to gluten, dairy and refined-sugar free ...