GOOD to see a splendid old pub being given a makeover, so we look forward to the relaunch of Timperley’s Stonemasons Arms on Saturday, December 2. It’s the second project from Pilling and Pride – ...
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Meeting the fashion guru bringing a different kind of pizza to town
DO we really need another pizza place? Whatever, still they spring up. The wood burning ovens are firing up brightly across our great land, the Fior di Latte and San Marzano tomato toppings show no ...
Mackie Mayor has all the hype… but we love the indie taste of GRUB
MACKIE Mayor may be flavour of the month but this man runs the city’s true indie food hall – GRUB. We caught up with Jason Bailey being very hands on at the street food operator’s ...
WHAT, no turkey for Thanksgiving? But at Hispi Quail all you like for a good cause
ON Thursday, November 23, Hispi in Didsbury is joining the ranks of top restaurants fund-raising for the Action Against Hunger charity. The team decided they wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving, the season of gratitude for good ...
Fortify yourself – Manchester celebrates International Sherry Week
SHERRY’S such a hard sell. You’ve got to admire the efforts of aficionados to promote it during the current International Sherry Week 2017 – in particular the efforts of Cork of the North’s Marc Hough ...
100 free tickets to give away for Eat and Drink Festival
THE Eat and Drink Festival – Christmas Edition, a four day celebration of the best food and drink around November 9-12), opens this Thursday at EventCity and Taste of Manchester has 100 tickets to give ...
Dishoom – A taste of Mumbai heading for Manchester Hall
THIS is a bacon naan roll – smoked streaky bacon dry-cured for five days with rock salt and Demerara sugar then cold-smoked over oak chips, then fried and served on the classic oven-baked Indian flatbread. ...
A sneak peek of Alston Bar and Beef’s ‘secret’ basement bar
NO, this isn’t the secret speakeasy bar in the bowels of the Corn Exchange belonging to restaurant/bar newcomer Alston Bar & Beef; it’s the rather beautiful 60-cover main dining room, enhanced by Manc street artist ...
YADDA YADDA POP- UP GOES PERMANENT AT ELECTRIK CHORLTON
LUKE Cowdrey and Justin Crawford’s food and bar empire is basking in the spotlight, thanks to the continued success and evolution of Volta in West Didsbury and The Refuge in Manchester. It’s good to see ...
Beardless Beer Week celebrating women brewers at the Crown and Kettle
IT’S one of the great stereotypes – beards and beer. Gather a gaggle of brewers and a mass of facial hair is guaranteed. That’s not the case at the upcoming Beardless Beer Week (November 24-30) ...