FOLLOWING the success of three veggie Pret A Mangers in London the casual eating chain is to launch a vegetarian-only store in Manchester this October. The site at 79 Deansgate will serve a new menu ...
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MFDF’s Big Indie Wine Fest – we uncork the full line-up
YOU haven’t enjoyed the full Manchester Food and Drink Festival experience if you haven’t sipped your fill at the Big Indie Wine Fest, the 11th (expanded) incarnation of which is coming to Manchester Hall on ...
Acclaimed small plate Italian Bacaro to open in Afflecks
ITALIAN restaurant Bacaro is set to open its first venture in Manchester on the ground floor of legendary shopping emporium Afflecks on Oldham Street early in 2018. The menu is built around the idea of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...