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Adam Reid and The Moorcock are big winners in the Good Food Guide 2019

Adam Reid and The Moorcock are big winners in the Good Food Guide 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to Adam Reid at The French for rising to No.13 in the Good Food Guide Guide’s Top 50 Restaurants in the UK for 2019. It’s four places up on last year when Adam was ...

7 September 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Don’t miss the inaugural Festival of Manchester at Platt Fields

Don’t miss the inaugural Festival of Manchester at Platt Fields

DIVERSITY is the word to describe the rich programme of events that make up this Saturday’s Festival of Manchester (Sept 1) in Platt Fields Park. The global food stalls alone will be testimony to the ...

31 August 2018

Make haste, hopheads, tickets are getting scarce for IndyManBeerCon

Make haste, hopheads, tickets are getting scarce for IndyManBeerCon

MOST beer geeks we know pencil in the dates for IndyManBeerCon as soon as they are announced and snap up tickets as soon as they are released. But, just in case there are no red ...

30 August 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Countdown to Tom Kerridge’s Pub in The Park at Tatton

Countdown to Tom Kerridge’s Pub in The Park at Tatton

THERE’S still time to snap up tickets for the Pub in the Park (Fri-Sat, Sept 7-9), brought to Tatton by celeb chef Tom Kerridge. The original event was launched May 2017 in Marlow, Bucks, home ...

30 August 2018

Book now for ‘Battle Royale’ Secret Supper Club at the MFDF Dining Dome

Book now for ‘Battle Royale’ Secret Supper Club at the MFDF Dining Dome

IMMERSIVE experiences. No, we don’t mean bath-time or baptism. We’re suggesting you plunge into the Manchester Food and Drink Festival event that promises ’80 contestants, six courses, one survivor’. Oh, and, of course there’s a ...

30 August 2018

Celebrate all things local at Westfest this weekend

Celebrate all things local at Westfest this weekend

THE bunting’s out on Burton Road this weekend (Sept 1 and 2) as Westfest, the annual celebration of West Didsbury’s indie businesses. And there’s a strong representation, as you’d expect, from the locale’s thriving food ...

30 August 2018

EatsMeatsWest expands with new Chinese restaurant in Altrincham

EatsMeatsWest expands with new Chinese restaurant in Altrincham

FROM the team that brought you a duo of CockaDoodleMoos (in Rochdale and Stockport) comes a third restaurant, WowYauChow. If the first brand created by the EatsMeatsWest group trumpets it’s all about their ‘Meat Shack’ ...

30 August 2018

A victory for Nelson? First look at Viet Shack Ancoats

A victory for Nelson? First look at Viet Shack Ancoats

FROM the moment Viet Shack opened a stall in the Arndale Market back in 2014, swiftly winning ‘Best Cheap Eats in the Manchester Food and Drink Awards there was always sense of style that set ...

30 August 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Fable team pull the plug on £3m Manchester Hall project to focus on Ancoats

Fable team pull the plug on £3m Manchester Hall project to focus on Ancoats

SO Dishoom is definitely coming to Manchester Hall but Fable won’t be. The spectacular £3m Pan-Asian restaurant project (in CGI above) from Panacea’s Joe Akka has pulled out “due to insurmountable building challenges and persistent ...

30 August 2018

Here’s a flavour of Dishoom, coming this winter (but where’s that bacon naan roll?)

Here’s a flavour of Dishoom, coming this winter (but where’s that bacon naan roll?)

NOW that’s what you call a breakfast to set you up for winter. It’s how to start your day at Dishoom this comforting spread centred around Chef Naved Nasir’s legendary Bacon Naan Rolls. ToM has ...

29 August 2018 by Neil Sowerby

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