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Don’t miss the bus – Sauce and the City: Christmas Special

Don’t miss the bus – Sauce and the City: Christmas Special

VEGANS, cross the road now. The Meat Lust brand is bringing its bright pink double decker bus back for Sauce and the City: Christmas Special. For two days only (December 8 and 9) this seasonal ...

5 December 2017

Mary-Ellen McTague’s The Creameries hits £20,000 target inside four days

Mary-Ellen McTague’s The Creameries hits £20,000 target inside four days

FANTASTIC news from The Creameries Chorlton crowdfunding project. Chef Mary-Ellen McTague, baker Sophie Yeoman and designer Soo Wilkinson have hit their £20,000 target inside four days. The cash will be used to buy all of ...

1 December 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Share the Italian joy of Christmas with a classic pizza at Proove, West Didsbury

Share the Italian joy of Christmas with a classic pizza at Proove, West Didsbury

SO what makes the perfect pizza? The Neapolitans seem to have it down to a fine art and it’s reassuring to discover that Proove on Burton Road, West Didsbury is steeped in that tradition. The ...

30 November 2017 by ADVERTORIAL

Brexit on a plate? George’s Great British Kitchen ticks all the blighty boxes

Brexit on a plate? George’s Great British Kitchen ticks all the blighty boxes

GREAT British Menu, Great British Bake-off and now, on our John Dalton Street doorstep come early 2018, George’s Great British Kitchen, promising to “celebrate British food in a totally unique way”. “That’s why every single ...

29 November 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Cheers! Marble brewery celebrates its 20th birthday

Cheers! Marble brewery celebrates its 20th birthday

MONUMENTAL, that’s Marble, the godfather of Manchester craft brewing. We take for granted the choice of indie beers across our bars, but go back 20 years and the local choice was confined to the family ...

28 November 2017 by Neil Sowerby

ALTERNATIVE GRUB CHRISTMAS FOOD FAIRS KICK OFF ON FRIDAY, December 1

ALTERNATIVE GRUB CHRISTMAS FOOD FAIRS KICK OFF ON FRIDAY, December 1

GRUB Food Fair at Fairfield Social Club is getting in the Christmas spirit at its arches home on Temperance Street. Belying the sober name, expect lashings of mulled wine and cider plus Germany’s flaming super ...

28 November 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Gino's restaurant opening charity pledge to Children's Hospital

Gino's restaurant opening charity pledge to Children's Hospital

GINO D’Acampo opened the doors to My Pizza & Prosecco Bar – his new restaurant inside the Arndale Next store – on Friday, November 24 with a pledge to support Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. The ...

27 November 2017

The joint’s a jumpin’ – First look at Bunny Jackson’s on First Street

The joint’s a jumpin’ – First look at Bunny Jackson’s on First Street

THE launch for Bunny Jackson’s, billed as the Deep South comes to First Street, was surprisingly short on bourbon-soaked old bluesmen and not a gumbo or jambalaya in sight. Cynics might baulk at yet another ...

27 November 2017 by Neil Sowerby

A first look at Gino D'Acampo: My Pizza and Prosecco Bar, at Next

A first look at Gino D'Acampo: My Pizza and Prosecco Bar, at Next

FOR workaholic Gino D’Acampo What’s Next? is almost a way of life, but it’s a giant leap opening his first My Pizza & Prosecco Bar in the flagship store of the fashion chain of that ...

26 November 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Mary-Ellen fronts crowdfunding campaign to resurrect Chorlton Creameries

Mary-Ellen fronts crowdfunding campaign to resurrect Chorlton Creameries

WE still miss Mary-Ellen McTague at the stove of Aumbry, though that Prestwich beacon of cutting edge cuisine has long been history. In the aftermath of its closure you can't accuse her of being less ...

22 November 2017 by Neil Sowerby

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