FORGET that puny happy hour Prosecco. ToM likes nothing better that interacting with Champagne in a beautiful setting. So when revered house Perrier-Jouët asked us to give our opinion of their newest cuvee Blanc de ...
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Alston Bar & Beef, Cask & Kiln – promising new arrivals
TWO very different openings on Friday, October 27 – Alston Bar & Beef in the city centre Corn Exchange and Cask & Kiln in Chorlton. Both have an ampersand in common but otherwise are chalk ...
Say Cheese! San Carlo Joins Forces with Grana Padano to Launch Unique Menu
THERE’S no doubt who’s the big cheese around San Carlo throughout November. The iconic Italian restaurant in King Street West has teamed up with Grana Padano, one of Italy’s most celebrated cheese producers to create ...
Toast of the town as Altrincham gets a topping new bread-based restaurant
CRUMBS, we’d like to say it’s the best thing since sliced bread, but Altrincham’s new specialist restaurant, Toast, is much posher than that. It’s gorgeous setting in a former Barclays bank on the edge of ...
All the tricks and tasty treats as Manchester goes all halloween
HERE are 20 different pumpkin recipes from soups to pies to celebrate Halloween with. Just joking – ToM’s take on trick or treat. Instead, here are a few of the more “spooktakular” foodie-friendly events around ...
All you need is pub – the reborn Bay Horse is looking fab
AND you thought the pub was a dying institution. Maybe not – in the right hands. Hot on the heels of Steve Pilling and Angus Pride giving Didsbury’s moribund Dog and Partridge a stylish shot ...
Don't miss starry two day Hanging Ditch Wine Fair at Manchester Cathedral
THERE are still tickets available for Hanging Ditch’s expanded Wine Fair (Friday and Saturday, October 27 and 28), celebrating a decade as one of the UK’s most enterprising wine merchants. The annual fair is held ...
Big welcome to Siop Shop – permanent home for donut meisters Blawd
IT’S not just the Mackie Mayor and the new look Bay Horse giving fresh impetus to the Northern Quarter food and drink scene. Blawd Co are hardly newcomers, having been the in-house baker for Common ...
Party on as GRUB relaunch at their new HQ Fairfield Social Club
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 ...
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 ...