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Ultimate food safari across five unique spaces for Action Against Hunger

Ultimate food safari across five unique spaces for Action Against Hunger

DINERS will have the chance to eat a menu from top chefs at some of the most exclusive private spaces in Manchester in a Moveable Feast in aid of international development organisation Action Against Hunger. ...

18 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Charity retro dinner to showcase amazing talent of North West chefs

Charity retro dinner to showcase amazing talent of North West chefs

TEN of the North West’s leading chefs – including Nigel Haworth (above), Paul Heathcote and Cambridge-based Mark Poynton – will join industry charity Hospitality Action for a high-proifle fundraising dinner at theLowry Hotel on Monday ...

18 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Good food guide 2018 recognises our region's rising talent

Good food guide 2018 recognises our region's rising talent

LIKE the Christmas special offers in the supermarkets, the various guides (to beer, food, pubs hotels) seem to hit the shelves earlier each year. Of all the contenders, though, the Waitrose Good Food Guide, to ...

18 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

THAT'S THE SPIRIT! EXTRA DAY ADDED FOR GIN SOCIETY AT THE CATHEDRAL

THAT'S THE SPIRIT! EXTRA DAY ADDED FOR GIN SOCIETY AT THE CATHEDRAL

SUCH is our city’s insatiable thirst for gin that an extra date has been has been added to The Gin Society’s forthcoming festival at Manchester Cathedral. Step forward Thursday, September 28 (6.30pm-11pm), a tonic for ...

18 August 2017

British Street Food Awards National Showdown at Mayfield Grub

British Street Food Awards National Showdown at Mayfield Grub

GOOD luck to our own 2017 British Street Food Awards finalists Chaat Cart and Dim Sum Su when the national finals come to Manchester on the weekend of September 16 and 17. The showdown for ...

18 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

No surprise as Alty gastro gang announce opening of Mackie Mayor (finally)

No surprise as Alty gastro gang announce opening of Mackie Mayor (finally)

IT’s official finally – the Mackie Mayor building on Swan Street is set to open its doors as a food hall destination mid-September. Those secretive folk behind Altrincham Market House have kept pretty shtum about ...

18 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Vote for your favourites in the MANCHESTER FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2017

Vote for your favourites in the MANCHESTER FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2017

THERE’S five weeks left for you to vote for your eating and drinking faves nominated for the coveted 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards, climax of the 20th Manchester Food and Drink Festival. You’ve got ...

18 August 2017

THE MAYFIELD DEPOT IS THE VENUE FOR THE PARTY OF THE YEAR – MFDF AND TAMPOPO’S JOINT 20TH BIRTHDAY BANGKOK STREET PARTY!

THE MAYFIELD DEPOT IS THE VENUE FOR THE PARTY OF THE YEAR – MFDF AND TAMPOPO’S JOINT 20TH BIRTHDAY BANGKOK STREET PARTY!

Manchester Food and Drink Festival is celebrating its 20th festival birthday this Autumn, and Tampopo opened its doors, as the city’s first Pan Asian restaurant 20 years ago this year. This means that 2 of ...

10 August 2017

Summery new food and drink menu freshens NQ bar Ply

Summery new food and drink menu freshens NQ bar Ply

FOR NQ punters PLY means pizza, but a new menu launching this week broadens the span to include small plates designed to complement the Lever Street bar’s cocktail and craft beer roster. The new dishes ...

8 August 2017

A three course feast of Anthony Burgess at the Whitworth

A three course feast of Anthony Burgess at the Whitworth

POLYMATH Anthony Burgess wrote novels, composed symphonies and mich – ToM’s not quite sure of the level of his kitchen skills, but food does crop up across his oeuvre. Hence the excuse for a celebratory ...

7 August 2017

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