A DECADE ago Abdulla Naseem and Andrew Turner were part of the team from Ramsons restaurant in Ramsbottom that went down to the British Museum to collect the award for Good Food Guide Readers’ Restaurant ...
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Chef’s Table at NRB is a star turn and you could win a close-up view
NORTHERN Restaurant & Bar has established itself as the premier hospitality trade event outside London but it has surpassed itself this with the quality of its Chef’s Table line-up. It’s an opportunity for ambitious chefs ...
Another Heart To Feed – get down and smell the coffee
FIVE weeks since Another Heart To Feed moved out of its Chapel Street, Salford premises this brilliant cafe operation is starting to beat again in a new home – thanks to the generosity of Didsbury ...
El Gato to invade Ancoats? Sounds kind of Moorish
THE Observer Food Monthly celebrated its 200th issue last weekend with, among other foodie look backs, a list of the ’20 food books that have stirred our emotions’. No, The Hairy Bikers Favourite Tyneside Turnip ...
Get the sour taste. Chorlton Brewing Co National Tap Takeover
IT’S not all about hoppy IPAs this craft beer revolution. One of Manchester’s canniest niche brewers is Mike Marcus of Chorlton Brewing Co, who specialises in sour and wild fermented beers. Cult beers such as ...
This is Manchester’s most beautiful bar… and its home is a new NQ hotel
IT’S pure coincidence Manchester’s most eclectic boutique hotel since the ill fated Mandarin Oriental has opened on Burns Night. Cow Hollow’s beautiful bar, which greets you as you step in off Newton Street, does have ...
Manchester House head chef Nathan Tofan puts his stamp on the menu
ToM editor Neil Sowerby tries the Taste of Tofan, while Matt White captures the menu launch on video (and they do feed him)REMEMBER the now notorious BBC fly on the wall documentary, Restaurant Wars, which ...
Cotton picking good as Pollen and Cask move in on Ancoats
BREAD and beer – hard to live without them. So residents of Cotton Field Wharf are counting their blessings today with the announcement that Manchester’s hottest artisan bakery Pollen and craft beer specialists Cask bar ...
Oxford Road’s indie container ‘mall’ Hatch starts to take shape
EN route to collect our Burns Night vegan haggis from On The Eighth Day on Oxford Road we couldn’t resist walking the extra few yards to investigate the progress of the new Hatch development under ...
Makers Market back in Chorlton with foodie goodies galore
OUR new Taste Top 20 Guide to Chorlton we unveiled last weekend spotlight the rapid changes going on in this popular suburb. It’s hard to keep up. Welcome back then, in a week when we ...