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Pass the Champagne and cuban cigars – a hotel called Dakota

Pass the Champagne and cuban cigars – a hotel called Dakota

BOUTIQUE hotel brand Dakota iis rolling up in the New Year. It looks a great place to lay your head down with some of the largest rooms and suites in town, including the “Grand Deluxe” ...

29 November 2018

MY Lancashire hot spot – ANDREW GREEN UNVEILS HIS MENU AT MAMUCIUM

MY Lancashire hot spot – ANDREW GREEN UNVEILS HIS MENU AT MAMUCIUM

AN over-excited press release trumpets Mamucium as ‘an epicurean’s playground’ – not a plaudit attached before to anywhere in the immediate vicinity of Victoria Station. And certainly that ‘Hipster Burgers’ van surfing the culinary Zeitgeist ...

28 November 2018 by Neil Sowerby

GRUB’S CHRISTMAS FOOD FAIR LINE-UPS… AND YAKUMAMA HIT FUND TARGET

GRUB’S CHRISTMAS FOOD FAIR LINE-UPS… AND YAKUMAMA HIT FUND TARGET

GRUB have announced the line-ups for their Christmas Food Fairs every weekend up to Saturday, December 22. They’ll take place inside the festively decked Fairfield Social Club on Fridays and Saturdays and feature many of ...

28 November 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Crazy for a Christmas pizza? Pedro Claus unwraps Ped’s In Blankets

Crazy for a Christmas pizza? Pedro Claus unwraps Ped’s In Blankets

ALL these Italians proclaiming theirs is the ‘One True Pizza’ across Taste of Manchester. Well, Crazy Pedro’s have made it their mission to let’s say widen the boundaries of ehsat constitutes a topping. Think edible ...

28 November 2018

Battle of the ‘burritos’ – Wolf’s Italian piadas versus Barburrito’s Mexican wraps

Battle of the ‘burritos’ – Wolf’s Italian piadas versus Barburrito’s Mexican wraps

LONE WOLF? No way. When the Italian healthy fast food chain opens shortly in Wembley Box Park and Nottingham its venues will number seven. The latest outlet has just opened in the Arndale’s new £11m ...

28 November 2018 by Neil Sowerby

New NQ haunt Cocktail, Beer, Ramen + Bun. No, they don’t do chips

New NQ haunt Cocktail, Beer, Ramen + Bun. No, they don’t do chips

A NEW Northern Quarter venture does exactly what it says on the tin. No that many tins are the basis of Cocktail, Beer, Ramen + Bun – more like long seethed bone broth and bottle ...

23 November 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Piccolino Caffe Grande back after fire with big plans for the spring

Piccolino Caffe Grande back after fire with big plans for the spring

PICCOLINO Caffe Grande is open again (Nov 22) seven weeks after a minor fire triggered substantial water damage, then after Christmas it will spend £400,000 to create a new look basement event and dining space ...

23 November 2018

Let the Lowry Hotel’s River Restaurant treat you in style this festive season

Let the Lowry Hotel’s River Restaurant treat you in style this festive season

THERE’S still a week left to enjoy the amazing November deals from the River Restaurant at the Lowry Hotel, but with the countdown to Christmas well and truly under way this is the time to ...

22 November 2018

Teepees, igloos and shacks – our guide to the city’s outdoor winter warmers

Teepees, igloos and shacks – our guide to the city’s outdoor winter warmers

20 STORIES’ Talisker Winter Terrace, complete with its snow globes,and WOOD on First Street’s returning pop-up Woodshack are the latest seasonal outdoor alternatives to the Christmas Markets, very much to be welcomed. Here are our ...

22 November 2018 by Neil Sowerby

The Ivy has crept up on us – after its lush launch can it live up to the hype?

The Ivy has crept up on us – after its lush launch can it live up to the hype?

THE big question regarding the Ivy Spinningfields – will the food be as stunning as the fit-out? The various Ivy Collection brand offshoots of the once unique Covent garden celeb haunt have garnered their fair ...

21 November 2018 by Neil Sowerby

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