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PEAKY BLINDERS BAR ROLLS INTO TOWN – JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

PEAKY BLINDERS BAR ROLLS INTO TOWN – JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

ONLY a few short weeks after we’ve waved goodbye to the Peaky Blinders film crews, the city is about to get another taste of Tommy Shelby and his gang. Well kind of. Sakana, whose steel ...

4 December 2018 by Neil Sowerby

First look at Bab, NQ showcase for gourmet kebabs

First look at Bab, NQ showcase for gourmet kebabs

GROWN up kebabs were the selling point for Yadda Yadda, until recently resident guest kitchen at Electrik bar in Chorlton and we loved the product. Now NQ brunch favourites Pen & Pencil have launched their ...

4 December 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Rosso the red-nosed reindeer? If only Santa could deliver such delicious Italian food

Rosso the red-nosed reindeer? If only Santa could deliver such delicious Italian food

IT’s that time of the year when regional news bulletins home in on absurdly over-the top Christmas decorations. Cut from the studio to pebbled-dashed semis more illuminated than Las Vegas with proud owners up on ...

29 November 2018 by Neil Sowerby

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

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