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Southern Italian specialists Salvi’s to open fourth site up on High Street

Southern Italian specialists Salvi’s to open fourth site up on High Street

BUSY man, Maurizio Cecco. Not only is he just weeks away from the third edition of his annual Festa Italiana (July 6-8) in Cathedral Gardens, he has just announced a fourth venue for his popular ...

28 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Viva Mexico – first look at El Camino in The Cotton Factory

Viva Mexico – first look at El Camino in The Cotton Factory

WHERE are the Mexican wrestling posters is our first impression? You had to grapple with them in every corner of Lucha Libre, ill-fated Great Northern import from Liverpool that traded on the musclebound men in ...

27 June 2019

Rebecca Richardson takes over as head chef at Mr Cooper’s

Rebecca Richardson takes over as head chef at Mr Cooper’s

MR COOPER’S in the Midland Hotel has always been the awkward sibling. Big brother The French in its Seventies Michelin glory days, subsequent ossification and, in more recent times, as an aspirational showcase for the ...

27 June 2019

Tasting notes from Christine Cort, MD Manchester International Festival

Tasting notes from Christine Cort, MD Manchester International Festival

My favourite place to eat out in Manchester is… A hard one, as the culinary landscape is changingso rapidly. There’s so much to choose from, but I would have to say Tast as I am ...

27 June 2019

Free party time as poet Mike salutes the Oxford Road Corridor – home to 'new' Hatch

Free party time as poet Mike salutes the Oxford Road Corridor – home to 'new' Hatch

WE”VE given you the full tasty lowdown on indie food and retail hub Hatch tripling in size. So if you liked what you read about all the new traders on board get down to the ...

27 June 2019

PLY LAUNCHES SUMMER COCKTAIL MENU… AND LETS SØLAR SHINE

PLY LAUNCHES SUMMER COCKTAIL MENU… AND LETS SØLAR SHINE

SUMMER cocktails and cutting edge surreal art. All roads surely lead to Northern Quarter bar PLY to catch up with the buzzing Medicine is Magical show from sØlar – which launches on Thursday, June 27 ...

22 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Sizzling, swigging summer! GRUB to host big burger and beer bonanzas

Sizzling, swigging summer! GRUB to host big burger and beer bonanzas

HYPERACTIVE Street Food Operation Of The Year? If there was such a prize we’d give it to GRUB. It only seems minutes ago we were reporting on their movies meets Squawk beer pop-up at Crusader ...

22 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

MIF IS UNDER WAY… HERE'S THEIR FESTIVAL SQUARE 
FOOD AND DRINK LINE-UP

MIF IS UNDER WAY… HERE'S THEIR FESTIVAL SQUARE 
FOOD AND DRINK LINE-UP

MANCHESTER International Festival has announced the full food and drink line-up for Festival Square and it’s a work of art in itself. Throughout this year’s festival (Friday July 5-Sunday July 22) that hub in Albert ...

22 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Picture this – movies and a Squawk taproom at the top of a Piccadilly mill

Picture this – movies and a Squawk taproom at the top of a Piccadilly mill

QUITE a climb but we ToM diehards love trekking up the Crusader Mill stairs to the third floor Track brewtap (above) and it’s not just for the craft beer. There’s also a table tennis table. ...

21 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Brewdog Outpost rolls into University Green – with its own micro brewery

Brewdog Outpost rolls into University Green – with its own micro brewery

MORE craft beer? Well, we never seem to lose the taste. The latest arrival is a huge new BrewDog bar adding to the mix at Bruntwood's £50m University Green development off Oxford Road that already ...

20 June 2019

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