THE recent Cup North Manchester Coffee Festival was wired proof that our enthusiasm for the Bean shows no sign of abating. That’s why two of our best local coffee houses feel confident enough to expand ...
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Hanging Ditch expands into Ancoats with Blossom Street Social
PHEW, what a relief. Just when we thought we were going a whole week without a new Ancoats arrival one drops in our mailbox – and it’s a belter. Blossom Street Social is an ambitious ...
Three classy concoctions to seek out at Cocktails In The City
IT’S hard to credit the upcoming Cocktails In The City held this time in New Century Hall, has now been running for six years, a period in which the Manchester cocktail scene has exploded with ...
Say Hola to Altrincham – fourth Evuna set for early 2019
WHAT a way to celebrate your 15th anniversary – open a fourth venue. Evuna have gained planning permission to open in Altrincham town centre in a site previously occupied by healthy eating restaurant EAT:kaizen. The ...
Mass bar closures in the Northern Quarter as MAD Ltd enters liquidation
THE casualties are mounting across the city’s food and drink scene. Already reeling from the demise of Manchester House and Artisan with The Rabbit set to follow, now the NQ based hospitality group Mark Andrew ...
StreetSmart and Foodinate – two ways our food and drink community aid those in need
CHRISTMAS is time of giving and once again in the build-up the city’s restaurants are banding together to help both the homeless on the streets and the hungry in deprived communities via, respectively, StreetSmart and ...
Bye Bye Bluu, hi to Foundry Project – self-styled ‘happiest place in Manchester’
WHAT price happiness? Another all day drinking and dining experience in the Northern Quarter? Foundry Project will open in place of Thomas Street stalwart Bluu on November 23 with a predictable menu ranging from smashed ...
Say ho ho ho to Zippy – countdown to the Christmas Markets
THE Christmas Lights switch-on (Nov 3) heralded the imminent arrival of the festive Markets, which we know bring a warm Gluhwein glow to so many of our readers (a Grinch writes). We can almost hear ...
Giggs and Neville’s Urbis Rabbit goes under
IT'S a febrile restaurant scene. Just when The Ivy and Dishoom are announcing their winter arrival, with nigh on 700 covers between them, Manchester has lost another adventurous fine dining restaurant. The Rabbit (formerly Rabbit ...
Mega restaurant bar complex The Ivy to open in late November
THE Ivy Spinningfields has been creeping up on us so long but now the timber-framed dining complex finally has an opening date of Tuesday, November 27. With space for for 535 covers over four floors ...