IT’S National Pie Week, so we go and sample quality sandwiches. What an awkward squad we are at Taste of Manchester, but when The Clarence promised they were elevating the humble butty we couldn’t resist ...
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Whisky blending sessions launch Pernod Ricard Loft space in the old Walkabout
YOUR own hands-on, personal, bespoke Scotch blend – what’s not like to about this ultimate dram you can now create on your Manchester doorstep? The Blend, the city’s new whisky school, has opened on the ...
TASTING NOTES BY PETER AND ELAINE KINSELLA OF LUNYA
Our favourite all time place to eat out in Manchester is... Hawksmoor. It’s consistently good. Fantastic service and wonderful food served in grand surroundings. The only place in the city where a steak rivals the ...
Win tickets to a unique underground banquet courtesy of Just Eat Pop-Ups and MFDF
THE newly unearthed Brickworks, an unforgettable basement venue beneath the Barton Arcade, is to play host to an intimate supper club to mark the launch of Just Eat Digital Pop-Ups. Just Eat is now delivering ...
Hot! Mana and Kala coming our way, while Allotment gets 'dirty' on Wednesdays
THE old adage about having to move forward just to stand still is being applied big time across the fast-changing Manchester food and drink scene. Just a couple of weeks after we published a rundown ...
Kevin Tickle joins Adam Reid at The French for a very special collab
TWO of the North West’s finest young chefs in tandem makes for one hot ticket. The latest collaboration from Adam Reid at The French brings Forest Side’s Kevin Tickle down from the Lakes for a ...
Spring Fiesta at Sadler’s Yard – a fun way to fight food waste
HARD to credit in these blizzard-lashed days that we are barely a week away from a Spring Fiesta, an all-day Manchester food festival with a difference, to be held at Sadler’s Yard and PLANT in ...
White Hag Stout and Wild Atlantic Oysters – treat yourself on Paddy’s Day
IT’S the countdown to St Patrick’s Day (March 17), which this year falls on a Saturday, giving you an entire day of rest to recover from your emerald excesses. Especially if you give Mass a ...
Alston Bar & Beef revisited – we go with the botanical flow
THE spirit is with ToM when we think of Alston Bar & Beef. This Glasgow-conceived combo of properly sourced steaks and forage-inspired cold compound gins only arrived in the Corn Exchange last October but it ...
Meet David and Des, dynamic D&D duo behind 20 Stories
D&D LONDON is what you’d call a major player in the hospitality industry. Over a decade after it emerged from a buy-out of Conran Restaurants it runs 35 restaurants worldwide, the latest of which is ...