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Join the dizzy Aperol Spritz revolution at the Oast House

Join the dizzy Aperol Spritz revolution at the Oast House

A HUNDREDTH birthday party doesn’t sound the liveliest bash but we’re talking Aperol heritage. To be truthful, we here at ToM really have our sights set on celebrating Negroni Week (June 24-30) in homage to ...

20 June 2019

Pho Launch Private Dining and Party Space in the Corn Exchange

Pho Launch Private Dining and Party Space in the Corn Exchange

PHO is up there with our favourite traders at the Corn Exchange. We can’t get enough of that eponymous Viet national dish with its rich stock teeming with good things or the limpid spring rolls ...

20 June 2019

Had your refill yet? MFDF joins battle to tackle plastic bottle pollution

Had your refill yet? MFDF joins battle to tackle plastic bottle pollution

APPROPRIATELY on National Refill Day (Wednesday June 19) Manchester Food and Drink Festival has announced it is tackling plastic bottle pollution by joining forces with the national Refill Campaign. The aim is to sign up ...

19 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

GROUNDBREAKING SIX BY NICO TO BRING ITS ‘EVOLVING MENUS’ TO MANCHESTER

GROUNDBREAKING SIX BY NICO TO BRING ITS ‘EVOLVING MENUS’ TO MANCHESTER

NOW here’s a fascinating arrival from North of the Border to take over the Roc n Rye site in Spring Gardens. Renowned Scottish-Italian chef, Nico Simeone is set to introduce his Glasgow dining concept this ...

19 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Book now for Isca natural wine event with Caroline Dubois

Book now for Isca natural wine event with Caroline Dubois

CAROLINE Dubois, sommelier at Stockport’s acclaimed Where The Light Gets In, and Issy Jenkins of Season’s Eatings supper club are bringing their new project, Isca, to Northern Monk Refectory on Sunday, July 7. Isca is ...

18 June 2019

HATCH REVEALS FULL FOOD AND DRINK LINE UP FOR ‘PHASE TWO’ EXPANSION

HATCH REVEALS FULL FOOD AND DRINK LINE UP FOR ‘PHASE TWO’ EXPANSION

HATCH has revealed the full food and drink line-up for Phase Two of their expansion. The award-winning food, drink and retail destination on Oxford Road is set to become a multipurpose, independent creative village of ...

18 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Book now for the hoppiest time of your life at Summer Beer Thing

Book now for the hoppiest time of your life at Summer Beer Thing

SUMMER Beer Thing is high summer in a glass even if the sun isn’t guaranteed to shine on Sadler’s Yard. This upmarket hopfest at The Pilcrow Pub, now in its third year, is certainly a ...

17 June 2019

XYZ SOCIAL – A NEW EATERIE, BAR AND SOCIAL HUB FOR SPINNINGFIELDS

XYZ SOCIAL – A NEW EATERIE, BAR AND SOCIAL HUB FOR SPINNINGFIELDS

WORK these days is not just about clocking in and head down. Increasingly it embraces a dawn to dusk lifestyle choice mixing creativity and chill-out. Well, maybe not if you’re collecting the trolleys at Asda ...

17 June 2019

It's Child's play! Festa Italiana welcomes back Bambini Garden

It's Child's play! Festa Italiana welcomes back Bambini Garden

FAMILY has always been a focus of Festa Italiana. You wouldn’t expect anything other than totally child-friendly from the UK’s biggest celbtratiinn of Italian food, drink and culture. Throughout this year’s festival (Friday-Sunday July 26- ...

17 June 2019

Shock closure of Beastro – the street food traders’ dream that came true

Shock closure of Beastro – the street food traders’ dream that came true

IT may be the saddest announcement of the year. Just after celebrating its second birthday Beastro down at Spinningfields Leftbank has shut, “blaming an incredibly difficult trading period and unsustainable running costs”. Co-owners James and ...

17 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

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