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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

Ernst Van Zyl calls time on Stockport project Klok

Ernst Van Zyl calls time on Stockport project Klok

SO crowdfunding isn’t always the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow. Four months after launching a Justgiving page to create Klok restaurant in the heart of Stockport peripatetic chef Ernst van Zyl ...

24 September 2018 by Neil Sowerby

10 openings this autumn (and if it's a bit later don't blame us)

10 openings this autumn (and if it's a bit later don't blame us)

BY the time you read this YES will be open on Charles Street – an exciting new events space and home for fried chicken kings Firebird Hope – with the El Gato Negro project, Modern ...

14 September 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Snack attack! Our guide to MFDF’s street food feast

Snack attack! Our guide to MFDF’s street food feast

ONE of the joys of Manchester Food and Drink Festival is treating the Albert Square hub as one great picnic opportunity. From September 27 to October 7, noon to 11pm every day there’s a terrific ...

14 September 2018

Meet Fiona Beckett, set to share her amazing wine moments with MFDF

Meet Fiona Beckett, set to share her amazing wine moments with MFDF

A CHANCE offer can change the course of anyone’s life, It’s just a case of seizing the opportunity. ‘Carpe diem’ as they say – or in the case of Fiona Beckett ‘Carpe vinum’. Now one ...

14 September 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Place your Manchester Food and Drink Awards votes

Place your Manchester Food and Drink Awards votes

YOU’VE got until midnight on Thursday, September 27 to vote for your favourites in the Manchester Food and Drink Awards 2018. It’s not an easy choice. When the shortlists were announced we suggested it might ...

14 September 2018

It's crunch time – Apple Day at Platt Fields Park

It's crunch time – Apple Day at Platt Fields Park

APPLE Day, it’s hard to believe it’s a first for the city. So best get down to Platt Fields Park this Saturday to enjoy the most apple-rated bunch of activities in the UK. It’s a ...

13 September 2018

Masterchef star Simon Wood to launch casual eaterie Woodkraft

Masterchef star Simon Wood to launch casual eaterie Woodkraft

YOU’VE got to admire the chutzpah of Simon Wood, a borne winner (and not just of Masterchef 2015). Still staggering from a £4,000 bill for damage caused by raiders trying to batter their way into ...

13 September 2018

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