REMEMBER the old acting adage? – ‘Never work with children or animals. With restaurant and bars it applies to living foliage as a decorative backdrop. Better synthetic than wilting. So Kai, the new Turkish restaurant ...
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Grafene restaurant and bar to close
THE first major restaurant casualty of 2019 is Grafene, which will offer its final service on Saturday, January 26, two and a half years after it opened in the former Brasserie Blanc site, wedged awkwardly ...
Weekend-long GRUB ExtraVEGANza covers all the plant-based bases
JUST when you thought you’d exhausted the plant-based opportunities afforded by Veganuary along comes one of its real showcases. We’re not saying you’ll be converted by the latest incarnation of GRUB ExtraVEGANza (Friday-Sunday, January 25-27) ...
Veganuary – 10 surprising restaurants offering plant-based delights
VEGANUARY, of course, is not just for January. Once you get the taste for plant-based treats you may choose to adopt that culinary lifestyle all year round or at least incorporate vegan dishes in a ...
Rolling out the barrel big time for Manchester Beer and Cider Festival
THE Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood (SPBW) sounds the kind of fogeyish organisation that might attract budding Rees-Moggs, but it’s a valid niche beer lovers’ pressure group that predates the Campaign ...
Five dishes to savour from Lunya’s New Winter Menu
SEASONALITY and a respect for sourcing sums up Lunya’s menus and their latest update is proof that winter menus don’t have to be rib-ticklingly robust. Fish and plant-based both feature. Owners Peter and Elaine Kinsella ...
First look at Kai Turkish restaurant, Deansgate
NEW Turkish restaurant Kai opened its doors before Christmas but officially launches on Thursday, January. When ToM popped into the old Prezzo site on Deansgate some last minute structural tweaks were going on and the ...
Blue Caribou are poutine on the style on My Million Pound Menu
STREET food is making giant leaps. In Whatever happened to the Class of ’15 we have charted the pop-up to permanency voyage of six street food traders; we welcomed Holy Crab’s coveted new tenure in ...
Work begins on city centre Thomas Dakin Gin Distillery
GINUARY is booming. As Didsbury Gin celebrate their investment success on Dragons’ Den Thomas Dakin have confirmed construction has begun on their eagerly anticipated new city centre gin distillery and immersive visitor experience. The Thomas ...
Mowgli Mk2, temple of 'home kitchen' Indian food, to open in University Green
MR Kipling (Rudyard) made exceedingly good tales. None better than The Jungle Book, inevitably filtered through Disney. Man cub Mowgli versus his tiger nemesis Shere Khan, it’s an uncanny harbinger of a contemporary culture clash ...