THE future of handmade timber-framed pub The Pilcrow is shrouded in uncertainty. This mecca for craft beer aficonados in Sadler’s yard will not survive the redevelopment and expansion of the Old Bank building behind it, ...
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'New York' is latest themed tasting menu at Six By Nico
WHAT is it about New York’s grip on our cool going out expectations? Every other new bar seems to offer us a bite of the Big Apple. The latest addition to The Printworks spells out ...
Peru Perdu – ceviche, pisco sours and an air of Andean mystery
IT’S like searching for the Lost Civilisation of the Incas. Our only clue to the location of Peru Perdu, due to open in October, is a Facebook message saying it’s “five minutes from Piccadilly, a ...
Book now for Jackie Kearney and Bakeorama’s Vegan Soul Food
DREAM team’s a bit of a cliche but a one-off pop-up collab between Jackie (Hungry Gecko) Kearney and Charlotte (Bakeorama) O’Toole does set the plant-based pulse (sic) racing. It’s called Vegan Soul Food and will ...
Italian fresh-to-go specialists Wolf open in Spinningfields
RESTAURANT chain Wolf has opened a new outlet – its eighth – on The Avenue in Spinningfields after a successful Manchester debut in the Arndale Centre. Wolf’s speciality is providing Italian food for busy people ...
Cottonopolis and Wilderness up for national avant garde drinks gongs
IT’S a tough job but somebody has to do it. Judges from drinks trade bible Imbibe spent a long Soho afternoon trawling through 150 entries to find the finalists for 2019’s Drinks List of the ...
Northcote names its Obsession line-up – and it's starrier than ever
expansive as the years go by? The latest Obsession (Friday 24 January to Sunday 9 February 2020) is the 20th and sees 24 chefs with 22 Michelin stars between them host dinners at the Michelin-starred ...
Feeling Bullish? What to expect at Tom Kerridge’s upcoming Bull & Bear
NOT every pub grub menu pays homage to one of our greatest chefs, steeped in his own French heritage, but accompanying Tom Kerridge to Manchester as he opens the Bull & Bear inside The Stock ...
Let's toast Seb, Jen and Wonder Wend at the gin gem Three Little Words
SOMETIMES a new bar takes you by surprise. You’re blasé about yet another railway arch conversion and yawning at the prospect of a temple to gin and then… And then you step into Three Little ...
High profile Cloudwater and Hispi combine for beer matching dinner
WE wish more restaurants took food and beer matching seriously. That’s not the case at Hispi in Didsbury. Proof is an upcoming collab dinner with Manchester’ most acclaimed brewery, Cloudwater. The menu features six courses ...