THERE are still a few tickets left for the upcomingWe Are Lager festival – Manchester’s well-balanced antidote to double-hopped IPAs and Imperial Stouts as the only cool beers of choice. And this new four-day festival ...
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Bangers, mash and ale bar Mash Tun to open by Easter in empty Grafene site
IT’s always fascinating when a venue undergoes a complete re-invention. When Paul and Kathryn Roden opened Grafene in 2016 on that oddly off the beaten track walkway between King Street and Chapel Gardens their casual ...
Gorge yourself on lamb offal this Good Friday – it could only be Beastro
VEGANS look away now. Beastro, never shy to celebrate the joy of meat, is celebrating the arrival of spring with a ‘nose to tail dinner’ making the most of every lamb bit. All matched with ...
Plannt yourself in front of Matt Nutter’s 10 course tasting menu at Foodwell
PLANNT is the vegan eating concept at FoodWell, new arrival at One New Bailey. Fittingly at this spectacular health-centric venue (restaurant/bar meets yoga studios)they’ve hired the best plant-based chef in town to curate the food ...
First look at Erst in Ancoats and it’s a belter
OUR first visit to Erst, yet another new kid on the Sawmill Court block, was hugely encouraging. With many delays along the way it has taken a while to join its mothership Trove in the ...
CELEBRATION ALE MARKS AWARDS SUCCESS FOR BIG-HEARTED HOLT’S
JOSEPH HOLT are celebrating being the only brewers to win the special ‘Heart of the Community’ award three times in a row, by producing a special edition fund-raising beer. This category at the British Beer ...
Rochdale boosted by arrival of GRUB… and an Artisan Market
WHEN the 2019 Rochdale Food Festival wrapped up at 8pm on Saturday, March 16 we thought that’s the eyes of the foodie world off the town centre for another year. Now comes news of two ...
Make haste! When the Calçots at Lunya are gone, they’re gone
SEASONALITY – what better examplar than the Calçot, that odd onion-leek hybrid that sets every Catalan salivating during its all too brief spring harvest? Thanks to Lunya in the Barton Arcade we’ve developed the taste ...
Who made it onto the NRB foodie power list alongside Nisha?
NISHA Katona may soon have no room left on her mantelpiece as the awards continue to come her way. The founder of the Mowgli street food brand has followed her MBE in the last honours ...
Too late for Too Many Critics’ dishes to make it into print in Dishoom book!
TASTE of Manchester editor Neil Sowerby is one of seven food critics feeling the heat of the kitchens for this year’s Too Many Critics dinner – at Dishoom on Monday, March 18. At last year’s ...