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 ...
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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 ...
VIVA CUBA! MILLION POUND MENU’S FINCA LAUNCH IN MANCHESTER
IT’S a long way from a makeshift pop-up in a Liverpool Baltic Triangle bar famous for its giant rooftop rat made from recyled plastic milk bottles but FINCA have made it to a summer residency ...
Wine bar Sip is a welcome addition to the Burton Road scene
THERE are so many contenders for our favourite place along Burton Road (the mainstay of our Taste Top 20 Didsbury. For beer definitely Saison bar and The Epicurean bottle shop, neighbours Volta and Folk battle ...