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Welcome to Urban Narnia – winter wonderland sheltering under the Mancunian Way

Welcome to Urban Narnia – winter wonderland sheltering under the Mancunian Way

SEEKING an alternative tom the same-again city centre Christmas Markets? We’ve hatched a plan for you. Or rather Hatch have. The Food, drink and retail oasis down Oxford Road under the Mancunian Way has conjured ...

20 October 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Yakumama duo chase a permanent home – with a pop-up vegan agenda

Yakumama duo chase a permanent home – with a pop-up vegan agenda

IT has always been the best street food trader name around – Yakumama. It references a monstrous, man-eating snake mother that lurks in the Peruvian Amazon. No role model for the vegans then. Yet here ...

20 October 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Tasting notes from Jane Dowler of Evuna

Tasting notes from Jane Dowler of Evuna

My favourite place to eat out in Manchester is… San Carlos, King Street of course its a classic, I just love it! The service, and food is consistently good over many many years and the ...

20 October 2018

San Carlo Cicchetti will have to move if shock Kendals closure goes ahead

San Carlo Cicchetti will have to move if shock Kendals closure goes ahead

OUR sympathies are with the 160 staff at House of Fraser on Deansgate after the chain’s new owner Sports Direct billionaire Mike Ashley announced the iconic store – still known to most of us as ...

19 October 2018 by Neil Sowerby

A most extraordinary arrival – Simon Martin’s Mana

A most extraordinary arrival – Simon Martin’s Mana

HERE at ToM we are putting way our pennies to afford the £95 tasting menu at Mana, which officially opened on Wednesday, October 17. More affluent foodies have booked in for weeks to come. We ...

18 October 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Frogs and monkeys help Cottonopolis to conquer in UK’s premier cocktail awards

Frogs and monkeys help Cottonopolis to conquer in UK’s premier cocktail awards

COTTONOPOLIS has always been a cut above many of its NQ counterparts. Nationwide recognition has followed with it scooping two gongs at the Imbibe UK 'Drink's List of the Year' Awards. Against some serious metropolitan ...

18 October 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Bistrotheque and London House collective looks an exciting addition to the scene

Bistrotheque and London House collective looks an exciting addition to the scene

EXCITING food news accompanying the revamp of London Warehouse on Ducie Street. Due to open spring 2019, the new project will combine apart-hoteliers Native, leaders in boutique fitness BLOK and groundbreaking London restaurateurs Bistroteque. The ...

18 October 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Tapas kings Porta confirm late November opening for Salford venue

Tapas kings Porta confirm late November opening for Salford venue

THERE haven’t been many food and drink lures to take us down Chapel Street beyond the inner ring road. Maybe for some excellent rustic Italian food at Vero Moderno at Vimto Gardens or for a ...

17 October 2018 by Neil Sowerby

EVUNA RESTAURANT GROUP CELEBRATES MILESTONE BIRTHDAY WITH TWO TASTING EVENTS

EVUNA RESTAURANT GROUP CELEBRATES MILESTONE BIRTHDAY WITH TWO TASTING EVENTS

AMAZINGLY it’s 15 years since Evuna opened its doors on Deansgate to sell bespoke Spanish wines in those days when the city centre wasn’t choc a bloc with tapas joints. The Dowler family’s atmospheric ‘wine ...

17 October 2018

Eat New York providing fodder for the revamped Chorlton Green Brasserie

Eat New York providing fodder for the revamped Chorlton Green Brasserie

IT’S good to see Chorlton Green Brasserie coming back on stream after a facelift; even better they have enlisted Eat New York to bring their salt beef bagels and pastrami reuben magic to Beech Road. ...

17 October 2018 by Neil Sowerby

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