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Fermented apple heads get their own dedicated cider festival at Fairfield

Fermented apple heads get their own dedicated cider festival at Fairfield

WHICH cider will be the apple of your eye at the upcoming Fairfield Cider Fête (Sunday, May 26)? There are over 90 to choose from and if you sample even half of them you’ll be ...

15 May 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Topping news as Rudy’s Pizza is rated 10th best in the world

Topping news as Rudy’s Pizza is rated 10th best in the world

IT only seems like yesterday – hardly time for the dough to prove – that Rudy’s Neapolitan Pizza was acclaimed third best pizza in Europe. That accolade came from Big 7 Travel. Now this instagrammers’ ...

15 May 2019

Champagne, cigars and Chester the hound – welcome to Dakota Manchester

Champagne, cigars and Chester the hound – welcome to Dakota Manchester

OUR sneak preview of the Dakota Hotel, officially opening on Saturday, May 18, was built on their premise of “bringing a touch of Mayfair to Manchester”. With our focus on food and drink ToM was ...

14 May 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Requiem for The Three Fishes – it set the country gastropub template

Requiem for The Three Fishes – it set the country gastropub template

WE make no apologies for straying out of town occasionally, north to the fertile grazing grounds of the Ribble Valley. Inevitably we are drawn to three foodie pubs, all of which have been showered with ...

10 May 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Book now for these amazing events lined up for MFDF 2019

Book now for these amazing events lined up for MFDF 2019

MANCHESTER Food and Drink Festival has unveiled an appetising array of events for its annual autumn extravaganza, all of which are bookable NOW. Automatically you’ll be heading for Albert Square – well, don’t. The festival, ...

9 May 2019 by Neil Sowerby

MFDF 2019 unveils refreshing changes for new Cathedral Gardens hub

MFDF 2019 unveils refreshing changes for new Cathedral Gardens hub

THEY are ringing the changes at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival 2019. (September 26-October 7). 22 years in existence as the UK’s greatest regional food extravaganza and the organisers are not resting on their ...

9 May 2019 by Neil Sowerby

San Carlo to open New Champagne Bar in Trafford Centre Selfridges

San Carlo to open New Champagne Bar in Trafford Centre Selfridges

DON’T know about you but after a shopping expedition to the Trafford Centre we’re in need of an uplifting glass of bubbly. So ‘grazie mille’ to San Carlo for launching a new standalone champagne bar ...

8 May 2019

20 STORIES WELCOMES SUMMER WITH A STUNNING TROPICAL GARDEN

20 STORIES WELCOMES SUMMER WITH A STUNNING TROPICAL GARDEN

SUMMER must finally be on the way. 20 Stories is finally stowing away its two giant Snow Globes and decking out its panoramic terrace with tropical stuff. From May to June, in partnership with the ...

8 May 2019

Up the Hatch! Our lowdown on the expanding foodie hub’s latest traders

Up the Hatch! Our lowdown on the expanding foodie hub’s latest traders

ONLY a month to go before Hatch trebles in size, so we thought we’d check out the current offering from its pop-up food traders. We were particularly impressed with newcomers Get Chucked, already a big ...

7 May 2019 by Neil Sowerby

The Midland to launch its first brunch menu and it looks a treat

The Midland to launch its first brunch menu and it looks a treat

HOW time flies. It has been nearly a year since we gave a four star review to the Midland’s ‘Evening Tea’, saying ‘just as Breakfast begat Brunch it was inevitable that Afternoon Tea might one ...

7 May 2019 by Neil Sowerby

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