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Bundobust and Siop Shop team up to help children's charity

Bundobust and Siop Shop team up to help children's charity

THIS looks the most delicious way to help an important charity. It’s a Mango Lassi Doughnut created for 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards Restaurant of the Year Bundobust by Siop Shop in the Northern ...

13 May 2018

Peruvian pop-up for Sandinista basement

Peruvian pop-up for Sandinista basement

NO guinea pigs will be consumed in the basement of Sandinista when it is transformed imminently into a Peruvian pop-up. The popular pet may be on the menus of many an Andean eaterie, but don’t ...

11 May 2018

Free beer if you go veggie at Lunya during special week

Free beer if you go veggie at Lunya during special week

‘FREE beer tomorrow’ – that old teasing sign over the bar. But free beer next week for veggies’ is a new one on ToM. Not that we need any extra incentive to give up meat ...

11 May 2018

JW Lees and Leeds' Northern Monk brew Manc Beer Week official ale

JW Lees and Leeds' Northern Monk brew Manc Beer Week official ale

MANCHESTER Beer Week 2018’s official beer is a cross-Pennine collaboration between JW Lees, our oldest brewery, and Northern Monk, the avant garde of Leeds craft brewers. The resultant one-off brew, a Summer Pale Ale, already ...

10 May 2018

Two AA rosettes awarded to Wood and Grafene

Two AA rosettes awarded to Wood and Grafene

METEORIC rise is an overworked term, but it is applicable to a duo of Manchester city centre restaurants that have just achieved well-deserved AA rosettes in near record time. ToM’s heartiest congratulations to WOOD and ...

10 May 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Taste of Manchester teams up with Lunya to host our debut Taste Supper Club

Taste of Manchester teams up with Lunya to host our debut Taste Supper Club

PUT Thursday, June 14, down in your diary but only after booking in for the first of our very special Taste of Manchester Supper Clubs. It’s Catalan themed because that’s the speciality of our hosts ...

10 May 2018 by Neil Sowerby

First look at the new Siam Smiles on Deansgate Mews

First look at the new Siam Smiles on Deansgate Mews

YOU want spicy? The reborn Siam Smiles up on Deansgate Mews will deliver. OK, the aromatic backdrop of its former location in a George Street basement is no more. The produce store is gone; the ...

10 May 2018

A real Royal Wedding Day Tonic – join the Gin Society’s Bolton jollies

A real Royal Wedding Day Tonic – join the Gin Society’s Bolton jollies

LIKE much of the nation you intend to be glued to the screen for Harry and Megan’s nuptials on Saturday, May 19? The Gin Society is giving you the chance to toast them with an ...

9 May 2018

Beer’s love affair with the lens – enter this focussed MBW competition

Beer’s love affair with the lens – enter this focussed MBW competition

BEER’S bonding with Art goes beyond colourful cans and pump clips. That’s why Manchester Beer Week (June 29-July 8) is launching a competition to discover what photograph you feel best captures Manchester's beer scene. ToM ...

8 May 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Crickets on a pizza? Crazy Pedro pushes back the boundaries

Crickets on a pizza? Crazy Pedro pushes back the boundaries

CRICKET season. The thwack of leather on willow, the sledging, the ball tampering. Enter Crazy Pedro from the Pavilion End bearing edible insects on a crisp dough base. Yes, it’s that time of the month ...

6 May 2018 by Neil Sowerby

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