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Get into the Christmas spirit at The Whiskey Jar’s festival

Get into the Christmas spirit at The Whiskey Jar’s festival

WHISKY Festivals are a regular event, as you’d expect at NQ bar The Whiskey Jar but the most appropriate fest has to be the winter warmer Sunday, December 17, offering 450 different varieties of bourbon, ...

10 December 2018

First look: Porta, New tapas bar arrival in Salford

First look: Porta, New tapas bar arrival in Salford

OLD bank buildings are such solid presences sometimes it’s hard to lose key components of their previous existence. In Manchester from Flok to Jamie’s Italian there are safes and bank vaults it was easier to ...

9 December 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Return of the Byrne bearing tasting menus at restaurant MCR

Return of the Byrne bearing tasting menus at restaurant MCR

WHEN Aiden Byrne left Manchester House to open 20 Stories earlier in the year he discarded tasting menus. Which felt a bit like Lionel Messi not using his left foot. Now they’ve made the biggest ...

7 December 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Glorious food line-up at Hatch Urban Narnia plus a family-friendly festive rave

Glorious food line-up at Hatch Urban Narnia plus a family-friendly festive rave

TASTE of Manchester is a food and drink website, so ‘family-friendly festive raves’ should be outside our remit but we’re making an exception for a rather jolly affair invading Hatch this Saturday (December 8) courtesy ...

6 December 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Swing along with the Monkey in the Schloss's Black Forest

Swing along with the Monkey in the Schloss's Black Forest

WHILE some of us are searching the attic for festive decorations, baubles that have lost their glitz or a battered cardboard angel, Albert’s Schloss are decking the halls with their biggest floral installation yet, courtesy ...

5 December 2018

Spielburger and the silver screen premiere next year

Spielburger and the silver screen premiere next year

IT’S a real treat to sit in the cinema and eat while watching the latest movie. And we’re not talking buckets of sickly popcorn. Everyman cinemas nationwide offer a menu at each of their 26 ...

5 December 2018

FEBRUARY LAUNCH FOR GARY USHER’S KALA ON KING STREET

FEBRUARY LAUNCH FOR GARY USHER’S KALA ON KING STREET

GARY Usher’s KALA will open in February 2019 on King Street, it has been confirmed. The eagerly anticipated sixth restaurant in the Elite Bistros group will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner in a 55-cover restaurant. ...

5 December 2018 by Neil Sowerby

PEAKY BLINDERS BAR ROLLS INTO TOWN – JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

PEAKY BLINDERS BAR ROLLS INTO TOWN – JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

ONLY a few short weeks after we’ve waved goodbye to the Peaky Blinders film crews, the city is about to get another taste of Tommy Shelby and his gang. Well kind of. Sakana, whose steel ...

4 December 2018 by Neil Sowerby

First look at Bab, NQ showcase for gourmet kebabs

First look at Bab, NQ showcase for gourmet kebabs

GROWN up kebabs were the selling point for Yadda Yadda, until recently resident guest kitchen at Electrik bar in Chorlton and we loved the product. Now NQ brunch favourites Pen & Pencil have launched their ...

4 December 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Rosso the red-nosed reindeer? If only Santa could deliver such delicious Italian food

Rosso the red-nosed reindeer? If only Santa could deliver such delicious Italian food

IT’s that time of the year when regional news bulletins home in on absurdly over-the top Christmas decorations. Cut from the studio to pebbled-dashed semis more illuminated than Las Vegas with proud owners up on ...

29 November 2018 by Neil Sowerby

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