OK, so the Howl’oween at Hatch on October 31 is a one-off (we hope it’s a howling success), but it is symptomatic of how dog-friendly Manchester’s modern food and drink scene is. Take new St ...
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First look at the Peter Street Kitchen in the Radisson Blu Edwardian
STARTING with the positives, what a superb job the Radisson has done, transforming its main restaurant space to accommodate their new Peter Street Kitchen concept. Ah, but that final word, inexorably linked with ‘rolling out’ ...
Mexican Day of the Dead? Let Wahaca’s Thomasina cook your last supper!
AT this ghoulish time of the year it doesn’t have to be Halloween. The Mexican Day of the Dead has its own spicy identity and Caramaba! Wahaca in the Corn Exchange is always quick to ...
Why Halloween’s going to the dogs – some of this year’s tastiest tricks and treats
SINCE Taste of Manchester’s focus is on food and drink we won’t be charting the plethora of Halloween kooky events – film screenings, zombie gatherings and the like. Just a few appropriate ‘gut reactions’! Not ...
Welcome to Urban Narnia – winter wonderland sheltering under the Mancunian Way
SEEKING an alternative tom the same-again city centre Christmas Markets? We’ve hatched a plan for you. Or rather Hatch have. The Food, drink and retail oasis down Oxford Road under the Mancunian Way has conjured ...
Yakumama duo chase a permanent home – with a pop-up vegan agenda
IT has always been the best street food trader name around – Yakumama. It references a monstrous, man-eating snake mother that lurks in the Peruvian Amazon. No role model for the vegans then. Yet here ...
Tasting notes from Jane Dowler of Evuna
My favourite place to eat out in Manchester is… San Carlos, King Street of course its a classic, I just love it! The service, and food is consistently good over many many years and the ...
San Carlo Cicchetti will have to move if shock Kendals closure goes ahead
OUR sympathies are with the 160 staff at House of Fraser on Deansgate after the chain’s new owner Sports Direct billionaire Mike Ashley announced the iconic store – still known to most of us as ...
A most extraordinary arrival – Simon Martin’s Mana
HERE at ToM we are putting way our pennies to afford the £95 tasting menu at Mana, which officially opened on Wednesday, October 17. More affluent foodies have booked in for weeks to come. We ...
Frogs and monkeys help Cottonopolis to conquer in UK’s premier cocktail awards
COTTONOPOLIS has always been a cut above many of its NQ counterparts. Nationwide recognition has followed with it scooping two gongs at the Imbibe UK 'Drink's List of the Year' Awards. Against some serious metropolitan ...