A HEADLESS super hero and big screen darts under a domed ceiling of quasi-Vatican proportions. All that and a moilee sauced whole rotisserie quail stuffed with black pudding that might well be our stand-out dish ...
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Cheers! Hawksmoor launches first new cocktail list since the Noughties
CHANGE at Hawksmoor is always carefully though out, so we don’t expect them to ditch the Porterhouses for plant-based alternatives any time soon. It came as a surprise to us, though, to discover they hadn’t ...
NORTHERN MONK LAUNCHES UK’S HIGHEST ALTITUDE BEER… FOR £1,000 A BOTTLE
AND there was you complaining about the price of a pint in your local. Northern Monk have just launched the UK’s most expensive bottle of beer, selling for £1,000 per 330ml bottle. There’s more to ...
SURPLUS! ‘waste food’ beer and street food collab to go weekly
IN APRIL food waste social enterprise Open Kitchen MCR joined forces with local independent brewer Beer Nouveau to create SURPLUS! an evening of beers and street food, all created from food that would otherwise go ...
Welcome to the Picturedrome – it looks a real cracker for Macc
AN away day down the Silk Road for the ToM team. No, we didn’t make it to Samarkand; Macclesfield had to do. Still it has it own exotic allure. One local told us he thought ...
A first look at GRUB’S new home – and what’s on this weekend
FINGERS crossed the weather’s better for GRUB’s sophomore weekend in their arty new home, the Red Bank Project. After trekking up via a refreshment pit-stop in the reopened Beatnikz Republic brewery tap we didn’t mind ...
PURE GOLD! HISTORIC ANCOATS GEM THE EDINBURGH CASTLE REAWAKENS
NOW this is an exciting new opening – or exhumation rather. The remains of the Edinburgh Castle pub have long been an Ancoats eyesore. It was begging for some canny operator to restore it to ...
CHANCE TO WIN FREE PIZZA FOR LIFE AS CRAZY PEDRO’S TURNS FIVE
THE original Bridge Street Crazy Pedro’s is five years old this November and to celebrate will be hosting a week of antics and deals, from Monday 11- Sunday 17 across that venue and its NQ ...
Dream arranged marriage! Mughli’s butter chicken on an Honest Crust pizza
CARVER? Sounds like a man who could do the honours with a roast chicken. But Richard of that ilk, creator of Honest Crust, swore that he would never stuff fowl on top of one of ...
Chish and Fips – the deep-fried reincarnation of Umezushi
IT’S rare in deed when a restaurant garlanded with awards re-invents itself as a fish and chip shop. But that’s what Umezushi has done. Terry Huang, 2016 MFD Awards Chef of the Year, and co-owner ...