GRUB, winner of Best Pop Up, Event or Project of the Year in the 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards, is launching at its exciting new venue this weekend. Expect a big party at the ...
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A work of art – four Wild Beers and a matching Mary-Ellen McTague menu
WILD Beer does what it says on the label, brewing creatively beyond the pale, so Manchester Art Gallery sounds a perfect spot to taste a range of the Somerset brewery’sales, paired with food from Gallery ...
Abandon stingrays! New £1m restaurant bar forced to re-stock its fish tank
A TWITTER storm of protest has forced the owner of a new city centre bar/restaurant to decide against filling the venue’s 118,000 litre wraparound fish tank with stingrays. Phil Healey, who launches his 1761 restaurant ...
So what did we learn from the 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards?
Taste of Manchester Editor Neil Sowerby welcomes the wind of change in our food and drink habits. NOW the dust has settled it’s time to take stock of the 2017 Manchester Food and Drink Awards, ...
A welcome handshake for Masons, Manchester Hall's flagship restaurant
HE secretive citadel of the Freemasons is flinging open its doors to food lovers from this week. Masons, destination restaurant/bar of the new Manchester Hall convention and events centre, is soft launching its Modern British ...
First look at the Mackie Mayor and there’s an instant wow! factor
THE waiting and the teasing are over. We can all now finally feast our eyes on the inside of the Mackie Mayor and, if the whole 500 cover operation under the great glass dome is ...
We've lost our sense of wonder as Shudehill's indie Inn calls it a day
IN a week which has seen mega project Manchester Hall open its doors for an encouraging soft launch of its restaurant, The Masons, there has been a trickle of minnows announcing they're closing. First Caffe ...
Beer festival: Manchester Oktoberfest in Albert Square
STOPTOBER? No way when you could be squeezing into those leathery hosen for a spot of oompah on Albert Square. Ja, Manchester Oktoberfest is back for it s fourth year of filling us all full ...
Award-winning Italian coffee house Lupo to close
SAD news to report about Lupo Caffe Italiano on Chapel Street, Salford. Owners Nico and Ornella have announced via their Facebook page they are to shut after their landlord served them notice. It’s the final ...
Cut the cake! Didsbury patisserie wins top national award
CONGRATULATIONS to Didsbury’s BIsous Bisous for being named best UK producer in the 2017 Observer Food Monthly Awards. Three years of hard graft introducing South Manchester to the delights of top-notch French patisserie have paid ...