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'One Dish Room' brings communal dining to Old Bank

'One Dish Room' brings communal dining to Old Bank

PLEASE don’t confuse it with Dishoom, that buzzing Indian incomer with an extensive menu inside history Manchester Hall. There’s also plenty of history (Co-op related) attached to the Hanover Street premises hosting The Old Bank ...

30 June 2019

San Carlo head local food and drink arrivals for Airport Super terminal

San Carlo head local food and drink arrivals for Airport Super terminal

MANCHESTER Airport has revealed the first wave of food and drink outlets that will feature in the new “super terminal” being built as part of its £1bn transformation. The list includes a number of iconic ...

30 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Simon Shaw to open a third El Gato Negro in Leeds

Simon Shaw to open a third El Gato Negro in Leeds

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 ...

29 June 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Spice up your life with a feast of Thai food and fun at Platt Fields

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 ...

28 June 2019

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

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