ALTRINCHAM continues to push all the foodie buttons. No sooner has a new Italian restaurant, Tre Ciccio, opened on Moss Lane, taking inspiration from Southern Italy (shades of Sugo) than a very English newcomer is ...
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Ernst Van Zyl guests at Real Junk Food Manchester
REAL Junk Food Manchester has been involved in some great chef collaborations but the upcoming one with Ernst Van Zyl promises to be the most interesting yet. On Wednesday, February 21, he will step into ...
First look at The Daisy – it's your very own creative space
SO accustomed are we to the luxury and all mod cons of Taste of Manchester Towers we hardly need a creative bolthole – £100 for a year’s membership – less than 100 metres away. Still ...
First Chop meets lamb chop – how does Mughli’s own craft beer match up?
KINGFISHER or Cobra? Yes, it’s the predictable beer choice at many an Indian restaurant. If you were going to feel bloated after an ill-advised late night Madras, then the fizzy, thin lager just added on ...
New head Chef Ben to bring a Fraiche approach to Grafene fine dining?
A NEW Year, a new head chef at Grafene. Will Ben Mounsey be the man to elevate the fine dining focus at the Chapel Walks restaurant? He certainly brings an impressive cv with him from ...
Sweet Mandarin’s £1,000 stir-fry and our Chinese New Year rundown
YOU’ve got hand it to the Tse sisters who run Sweet Mandarin. They sure know how to market their NQ Chinese restaurant and its host of spin-offs – proprietary sauces, books, cookery school. Not that ...
Saluting two Sam’s stalwarts – sommelier George and corned beef hash
CONGRATULATIONS to George Bergier currently celebrating 50 years in the hospitality trade a year on from collecting an Industry Legend gong in the 2017 Imbibe Magazine Awards. Even more than that LS Lowry bronze statue ...
Tom Kerridge Pub in The Park is Knutsford’s big gain
VEGANUARY, Dry January, it seems like so long ago now. Ditto celebrity chef Tom Kerridge frantically working the media to flog his low calorie diet primer, ‘Lose Weight for Good’, based on his own not ...
WOOD’S HOT TICKET TO THE WORLD OF SPANISH CUISINE
NOT just a Masterchef but now a culinary Phileas Fogg, that’s Simon Wood, he of the eponymous restaurant down on First Street. No we don’t mean he’s endorsing the crisps brand – more excitingly embarking ...
Cottonopolis’ Secret Supper event returns with a steampunk extravaganza
BACK in October, Cottonopolis invited folk to follow the fire and embark on a journey that would take them to a secret location to indulge in an eight-course dining experience. Following the success of the ...