THE Cat is getting fatter after El Gato Negro swiftly followed up its plan for an August opening in Liverpool by announcing third venue in the pipeline for Leeds. The restaurant, continuing the award-winning Modern ...
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Spice up your life with a feast of Thai food and fun at Platt Fields
COULDN’T make Glastonbury? Console yourself with a feast of Thai culture in Platt Fields this weekend. OK, maybe Thai boxing demos and lady boy shows at the Magic of Thailand Festival (Sat and Sun, June ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...