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 ...
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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. ...
First look at Folk & Soul, the Northern Quarter’s stunning all-vegan bar
AN all-vegan bar. Where even the paint and wallpaper are plant-based, ask for a latte and you’re warned it’s with soya milk and amazingly those dyed in the wool Manc brewers Joseph Holt’s are crafting ...
Pollen Bakery reopens at new Cotton Field Wharf site
LESS than a fortnight after quitting their original home in the arches along Sheffield Street the acclaimed Pollen Bakery have opened the doors at their new site at Cotton Field Wharf, Ancoats (May 30). They ...
Two day King Street Festival in full bloom to welcome June
ONE of our favourite street parties, the King Street Festival. is back this weekend (Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3) with a host of opportunities to graze and sip while taking in a programme ...