My favourite place to eat out in Manchester is… Running Salvi's restaurants means I hardly get to go out to restaurants myself. When I do, I like to go to La Bandera. It's nice to ...
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Novelli, Nutter and Nisha stars of debut Rochdale Food and Drink Festival
A TRIO of top notch chefs headline the new one-day Rochdale Food and Drink Festival on Saturday, March 24 – Jean-Christophe Novelli, Nisha Katona and local hero Andrew Nutter. The venue for their cookery demos ...
Why starry Paco is bringing a taste of Catalonia (with help from foodie Pep)
Neil Sowerby gets a taste of what Tast will offer and Matt White interviews chef Perez on camera…THE bounty on offer over the two days of the Northern Restaurant & Bar show can be quite ...
Blue Pig’s bacon is saved! Much loved bar returns via a pop-up
HERE at ToM we were obviously delighted at the announced rebirth of Odd Bar as Folk & Soul that we quite forgot its former stablemate round the corner, The Blue Pig, was still languishing in ...
ARE YOU REGGAE? 40 REASONS TO LOVE RUM AT TURTLE BAY
IS rum the new gin? Sales in the UK are certainly catching up as the sugar cane based spirit sheds its old groggy image. It certainly has its champions in Manchester in the tiki bars ...
Wood Mcr mates with the White Swan after having a Cristal ball
TASTE of Manchester loves guest chef collabs. It has become a regular feature of Adam Reid at The French, the latest being a visit from Forest Side’s Kevin Tickle. Now news of another intriguing evening, ...
Too Many Critics dinner raises £23,000+… now for Nepal
MORE than £23,000 was raised for Action Against Hunger by this year’s Too Many Critics dinner, held at Manchester’s glamorous new destination restaurant, 20 Stories, on the 19th floor of the No1 Spinningfields tower. It ...
The Northern powerhouses – who made the NRB Top 50 list?
Neil Sowerby salutes our culinary movers and shakers and Matt White catches up on camera with First Dates fave Fred Sirieix… THE Northern Restaurant & Bar (NRB) show has revealed its Top 50 regional high ...
A new Trove to treasure is heading for Ancoats
LOTS of places have been labelled the bread basket of the world – the Ukraine, Canada, California. Now step forward Ancoats. Not that there’ll be fields of billowing wheat about New Islington Marina any time ...
Chinatown's Siam Smiles blames rent hike for closure
ANOTHER restaurant casualty to report in these difficult times. Siam Smiles, the no-frills Thai cafe/supermarket on Chinatown’s George Street, has tweeted: “IMPORTANT NOTICE. All customers, sadly rent increase, high rates too much for Chef May. ...