EVERY major event needs to kick off with a fanfare. OK, the opening of the 21st Manchester Food and Drink Festival was never going to compete with Danny Boyle’s send-off for the London Olympics but ...
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Taste your pick! Here’s the full line-up for Manchester Food and Drink Festival
THE 21st Manchester Food and Drink Festival (Sept 27-Oct 8) is truly up and running. Here's the full programme for 11 amazing days celebrating the city's ever-evolving culinary scene. Centre of the action is the ...
Happy Second Birthday to The Refuge by Volta
DON’T call us party poopers but, as a food-centric website, we can’t see the point of dancing the night away without fortifying the inner raver. Hence, we may spend much of The Refuge’s Second Birthday ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...