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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

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

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