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We have lift-off! Brian Cox launches a hop-driven Cosmic Brew with JW Lees

We have lift-off! Brian Cox launches a hop-driven Cosmic Brew with JW Lees

JW LEES seem to be over the moon about their beer collaboration with Professor Brian Cox. Cosmic Brew will go on sale in bottle and cask to consumers in January, coinciding with the telly pin-up ...

26 September 2018

Star chefs to dazzle at Northern Lights Charity Dinner

Star chefs to dazzle at Northern Lights Charity Dinner

FRESH from securing four AA Rosettes for The French, Adam Reid joins four other top North West chefs for the Northern Lights Dinner at The Lowry Hotel on Monday, October 1, to raise funds for ...

25 September 2018

Adam Reid at The French triumphs with four AA rosettes

Adam Reid at The French triumphs with four AA rosettes

TWO of the North West’s top destination restaurants were showered with Rosettes at this year’s AA Hospitality Awards. Moor Hall at Aughton near Ormskirk was one of three scooping the coveted five Rosettes, while Adam ...

25 September 2018 by Neil Sowerby

JPA launch – Manchester’s craft beer community commemorates one of their own

JPA launch – Manchester’s craft beer community commemorates one of their own

WE’D urge all beer lovers among the ToM readership to get down to Port Street Beer House on Wednesday, October 3 to sample an amazing sounding beer for an amazing cause – Headway, the brain ...

24 September 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Manchester’s Veggie Pret will be the first outside London

Manchester’s Veggie Pret will be the first outside London

FOLLOWING the success of three veggie Pret A Mangers in London the casual eating chain is to launch a vegetarian-only store in Manchester this October. The site at 79 Deansgate will serve a new menu ...

24 September 2018

MFDF’s Big Indie Wine Fest – we uncork the full line-up

MFDF’s Big Indie Wine Fest – we uncork the full line-up

YOU haven’t enjoyed the full Manchester Food and Drink Festival experience if you haven’t sipped your fill at the Big Indie Wine Fest, the 11th (expanded) incarnation of which is coming to Manchester Hall on ...

24 September 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Acclaimed small plate Italian Bacaro to open in Afflecks

Acclaimed small plate Italian Bacaro to open in Afflecks

ITALIAN restaurant Bacaro is set to open its first venture in Manchester on the ground floor of legendary shopping emporium Afflecks on Oldham Street early in 2018. The menu is built around the idea of ...

24 September 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Hello Canto – atmospheric slice of Portugal in Ancoats

Hello Canto – atmospheric slice of Portugal in Ancoats

CUTTING Room Square has its share of corner bars – Elnecot, its name a homage to ancient Ancoats; Jane Eyre, a tribute to the co-owners’ mum not the Bronte heroine. And now Canto, celebrating a ...

24 September 2018 by Lily Carden

Beech Road benchmark The Parlour gives up the ghost

Beech Road benchmark The Parlour gives up the ghost

TWO weeks ago we bemoaned the closure of the city centre champagne bar Epernay. Now comes news that a more recent acquisition by Chris Payne of the VCP Taverns group has also shut up shop ...

24 September 2018

It's all kid's stuff at the Creameries' Goatober celebration

It's all kid's stuff at the Creameries' Goatober celebration

IT was always going to pip Veganuary for our affections, so welcome back to Goatober, national showcase for the culinary potential of kid meat. Once again it is organised by James Whetlor (above) of Cabrito ...

24 September 2018 by Neil Sowerby

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