FORGET everything you thought you knew about the classic roast. Grill on the Alley and Grill on New York Street in Manchester city centre have stepped their game up on a Sunday. The usual chicken ...
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Seafood restaurant The Oystercatcher coming to Chorlton
IT’S good to see the former Gray’s Larder site in Chorlton reemerging as a fish restaurant. Mid-June is the expected opening window for The Oystercatcher, which will offer fish and chips but also venture into ...
Dormouse strikes gold at the Academy of Chocolate Awards
THERE’s chocolate and then there’s chocolate. Like ice cream it can be a synthetic, industrial product or a bespoke assembly of the finest ingredients. Manchester’s own Dormouse Chocolates definitely belong to the latter camp, scooping ...
First look: Wine and Wallop, Knutsford
IT has been 12 months of restaurant chains suffering major wobbles. Yet amid all that corporate carnage it’s good to see much-loved independents expanding cautiously. Cut to King Street, Knutsford. First Spanish wine specialists Evuna ...
Top chefs get to play with fire at groundbreaking A Good Feed festival
THERE are so many festivals around these days it’s hard to find a spark of enthusiasm for yet another. A Good Feed, though, is something different. At first sighting this four day celebration (May 25-28) ...
Gary Usher and Steven Smith in quartet cooking Tim Bacon Foundation banquet
A TRIO of the UK’s best chefs are teaming up with Manchester House’s Nat Tofan to cook a very special Chef’s Dinner there on Thursday, June 7 to raise funds on behalf of the Tim ...
Tasting notes from Stuart Maconie, writer and broadcaster
My favourite place to eat out in Manchester is… OMG that is hard. I love so many places. El Rincon (real Manchester legend) Punjab on The Curry Mile (best South Indian in Manchester, great dhosa), ...
You’re Toast. Immerse yourself in Nigel Slater’s foodie past on stage
MAYBE there will be a second helping of Toast after all. Nigel Slater always swore he’d never write a sequel to his award-winning 2203 coming of age in the kitchen memoir. But he may have ...
Award Winning Chef Alex Shaw joins Blanchflower Altrincham
ARTISAN bakery and restaurant Blanchflower in Altrincham has appointed Alex Shaw as its new Head Chef. Alex will be working alongside co-owners Phil and Clare Howells to devise a new all-day menu, with a focus ...
The Royal Wedding – our pick of the places to watch it, glass in hand
HERE at Taste of Manchester, already draped in Royal Wedding Day bunting, we’ve been contemplating awarding a medal to the Manc establishment most committed to celebrating Harry and Meghan’s Windsor nuptials on Saturday, May 19. ...