MANCHESTER’S best kept secret? ToM loves bigging up a gem that’s under the radar. Which brings us to Randall & Aubin, celebrating the first anniversary of its arrival in the city. Randall & Aubin? Hardly ...
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‘BAB ABOUT TOWN’ visits Gusto Didsbury
The Mission: To enjoy a meal – any meal – out of the home with a toddler. The more fabulous the meal the better, but toddler hassle-reducing factors at the restaurant are also key. It’s ...
Jay Rayner and Jasmine Hemsley head a brilliant MFDF 2018 line-up
NOW the countdown really begins to the 21st annual Manchester Food and Drink Festival (September 27-October 8) with the first announcements of its star-studded programme.At the centre of 12 glorious days celebrating the city’s magnificent ...
The Anthologist bar to debut at One St Peter's Square on July 2
IT’S happened twice lately to Taste of Manchester – arranging to meet up in the wrong bar. And we don’t mean we turned up in the ‘other’ Alchemist, an alternative Chop House or confused Yard ...
So what next for the Rabbit In The Moon and the Man Who Fell to Earth?
SO tara then to Michael O’Hare, who has quit as culinary creative director for Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs’ GG Hospitality Group. From the start it has always felt an odd marriage of convenience to ...
Our advance guide to Manchester Beer Week (and a few other reasons to get very hoppy)
IT’S that time of year when you start seriously pencilling in your diary the festivals that dominate the Manchester beer year (with apologies to CAMRA’s Manchester Beer and Cider Festival which made its thirst-slaking statement ...
Great Grub vegan line-up for Envirolution Festival in Platt Fields Park
ENVIROLUTION Festival 2018 is back at Platt Fields on Saturday, June 2 with its best food line-up ever thanks to a link-up with GRUB. Manchester’s top street food party organisers will be bringing TEN 100% ...
Marco Pierre White to headline Manchester Eats in Heaton Park
IT’S almost like Lord Lucan galloping Shergar into Heaton Park. The inaugural Manchester Eats festival (July 7-8) has signed up the legendary Marco Pierre White for a cookery demo, Q&A session and book signing. The ...
Join the circus, make pasta – July’s Festa Italiana is bambino paradiso
EATING and drinking is a family affair in Italy – from bambinis to nonnas – so it’s entirely appropriate that this year’s Festa Italiana should also offer a terrific kids’ programme. Back in Cathedral Gardens ...
Rabbit In The Moon launches lunchtime tasting menu
THROUGH social media the other day we chanced upon an article lamenting the demise of the long lunch in media circles, which made us all the more determined to buck the trend… and book lunch. ...