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Cork of the North to open a second branch – in Heaton Moor

Cork of the North to open a second branch – in Heaton Moor

WELL, it certainly makes a change from another craft beer bar launching. Welcome then to the imminent arrival of “the biggest and best wine shop and wine bar that Manchester and Cheshire has ever seen.” ...

8 June 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Dream link-up between Cloudwater and Where The Light Gets In

Dream link-up between Cloudwater and Where The Light Gets In

ASKED to name our region’s most cutting edge craft brewery and its restaurant equivalent odds are ToM would go for Cloudwater and Stockport’s Where The Light Gets In. So imagine our excitement that the duo ...

8 June 2018 by Neil Sowerby

Book now: Reserve Wine & Food Festival 2018

Book now: Reserve Wine & Food Festival 2018

TRUST Reserve to serve up an event that goes way beyond your average wine tasting. No strangers to the region’s best street food traders thanks to their residency at Altrincham Market House and Mackie Mayor, ...

8 June 2018

HATCH'S EXCLUSIVE FREE GIG WITH MIKE GARRY AND THE CASSIA STRING QUARTET

HATCH'S EXCLUSIVE FREE GIG WITH MIKE GARRY AND THE CASSIA STRING QUARTET

HATCH’S eclectic entertainment programme continues with a free show by Manchester poet Mike Garry and the Cassia String Quartet on Thursday, June 14. The unlikely pairing, whose recording of ‘Ode To Saint Anthony’ was a ...

8 June 2018

Not just Kala – Gary Usher is now plotting a city centre hotel

Not just Kala – Gary Usher is now plotting a city centre hotel

THE King of Crowdfunders Gary Usher, fresh from raising his 24 hour target of £50,000 in just 60 minutes towards launching Pinion in Prescot, is already expanding his plans for arriving in city centre Manchester. ...

8 June 2018

Raising the bar with a new snack menu at Randall & Aubin

Raising the bar with a new snack menu at Randall & Aubin

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 ...

8 June 2018 by Neil Sowerby

‘BAB ABOUT TOWN’ visits Gusto Didsbury

‘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 ...

7 June 2018 by Siobhan Hanley

Jay Rayner and Jasmine Hemsley head a brilliant MFDF 2018 line-up

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 ...

6 June 2018 by Neil Sowerby

The Anthologist bar to debut at One St Peter's Square on July 2

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 ...

5 June 2018 by Neil Sowerby

So what next for the Rabbit In The Moon and the Man Who Fell to Earth?

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 ...

5 June 2018 by Neil Sowerby

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