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Hard Rock Cafe turns over a new (gold) leaf with this bling burger

Hard Rock Cafe turns over a new (gold) leaf with this bling burger

BURGERS don’t get much more rock and roll than Hard Rock Cafe’s latest – the world’s first edible 24-Karat Gold Leaf Steak Burger. It’s the headiner among 20 new food offerings launching across the globe ...

6 June 2019

Iberica celebrates the wine and food of Galicia

Iberica celebrates the wine and food of Galicia

EACH month Iberica in Spinningfields celebrates a region in Spain. Hot on the heels of Castilla la Mancha in May it’s the turn of Galicia. Seafood is the big draw of this far north west ...

6 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Roll out the barrel as Rum Festival packs in 60 top producers

Roll out the barrel as Rum Festival packs in 60 top producers

THERE are still tickets available for Manchester Rum Festival (Saturday, June 8), returning for its third year, this time in the atmospheric Brickworks events space under the Barton Arcade. Perfect for imagining you are a ...

4 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Lawn Club returns to Spinningfields – with free launch drinks

Lawn Club returns to Spinningfields – with free launch drinks

AMAZINGLY it’s four years since the halcyon days of the original Lawn Club with the mighty David Gale creative in the kitchen of this pop-up Spinningfields bar, soon to be mothballed in 2016 while the ...

4 June 2019

Expect to be bowled over by All Star Lanes’ Bottomless Gin Brunch

Expect to be bowled over by All Star Lanes’ Bottomless Gin Brunch

EVERY day seems to be World Gin Day in the watering holes of our juniper-scented city, but the actual date for this global celebration turns out to be the second Saturday of every June. London ...

4 June 2019

Homeless charity Not Just Soup given top national award

Homeless charity Not Just Soup given top national award

HUGE congratulations to Not Just Soup for winning the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in recognition of its selfless help for Manchester’s homeless. Since its inception in 2015 this collaboration between the city’s restaurants and ...

4 June 2019

Tom Kerridge to oversee food and drink at new Stock Exchange Hotel

Tom Kerridge to oversee food and drink at new Stock Exchange Hotel

IT’S official. Tom Kerridge, Mr High Profile Chef himself, has been announced as the overseer of food and drink at the eagerly awaited Stock Exchange Hotel – 35-room boutique venture from GG Hospitality. Conversion work ...

3 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Manchester Art Gallery team up with MFDF

Manchester Art Gallery team up with MFDF

Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Food and Drink Festival have announced three new immersive supper clubs with chefs Mary Ellen McTague, Simon Shaw and Aiden Byrne.Manchester Art Gallery is hosting a unique series of art-meets-food ...

30 May 2019

Rivington Walk climax of Bolton Beer and Cider Week

Rivington Walk climax of Bolton Beer and Cider Week

THESE are heady days for beer and cider aficionados (or quaffers). Fairfield Social Club has just hosted a Cider Fête celebrating the remarkable range of the fermented apple and pear scene and tickets go on ...

26 May 2019

The Printworks home to the Garden of Eden? You’d better Adam and Eve it

The Printworks home to the Garden of Eden? You’d better Adam and Eve it

TIGER Tiger is facing extinction and in its place at the heart of The Printworks comes the place which spawned original sin – welcome to Eden, due with us July. According to the announcement for ...

26 May 2019

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