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Who needs popcorn when you have this line-up at a cinema pop-up?

Who needs popcorn when you have this line-up at a cinema pop-up?

VICTORIA Baths is hosting another Village Screen pop-up cinema this weekend, showing Back to the Future on Friday, July 28 and Dirty Dancing on Saturday, July 29. There’s a stellar line-up of food traders involved, ...

27 July 2017

OUT OF TOWN: major food and beer mecca in Clitheroe

OUT OF TOWN: major food and beer mecca in Clitheroe

THE Ribble Valley is ToM’s favourite foodie day out destination, usually to visit one of its great food pubs, the Freemasons at Wiswell, The Sssheton Arms at Downham, The White Swan at Fence or Nigel ...

26 July 2017 by Neil Sowerby

New Brekkies and Oktoberfest – Albert’s Schloss just never stops!

New Brekkies and Oktoberfest – Albert’s Schloss just never stops!

WHERE to snatch that super healthy breakfast to charge your energies for the day? Teutonic party central Albert’s Schloss was never on that radar – until now. Suddenly with their new summer breakfast menu they’ve ...

26 July 2017

Gourmet pie shop or ethical vegan pizza? The choice is yours in Chorlton

Gourmet pie shop or ethical vegan pizza? The choice is yours in Chorlton

LORD of the Pies is one of the better puns in the food and drink game (up there with our own Beastro and Jason Doner Van) and the gourmet pies taste good, too – our ...

26 July 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Grab a deckchair in the square and enjoy the Manchester Picnic

Grab a deckchair in the square and enjoy the Manchester Picnic

COULROPHOBIA – a morbid fear of clowns shared by the likes of Johnny Depp and P. Diddy – isn’t the reason ToM will be shunning Exchange Square’s Clownfest section of this weekend’s One Big Summer ...

26 July 2017

Doubling up at the Doubletree – new dining space plus a craft beer den

Doubling up at the Doubletree –  new dining space plus a craft beer den

THE reinvention of the ground floor restaurant and bar space at The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel follows a pattern this week. Chef Michael Clay’s imminent restaurant bar in Ancoats is named after the original name ...

21 July 2017 by Neil Sowerby

CELEBRATE Daiquiri Week and HEMINGWAY’S BIRTHDAY AT roc & rye

CELEBRATE Daiquiri Week and HEMINGWAY’S BIRTHDAY AT roc & rye

NEWLY opened craft coffee and cocktail bar Roc & Rye will be celebrating Hemingway’s birthday in style with their friends at Bacardi, by immersing themselves in Cuban cocktail culture. This includes a week of special ...

18 July 2017

Feel the Pintx as TNQ turns Basque for an evening of small plates

Feel the Pintx as TNQ turns Basque for an evening of small plates

PINTXOS, delectable Basque cousins of tapas, are much in vogue the moment. Check out our latest review of Baratxuri in Ramsbottom (OK, were were investigating larger racions and their new roasting oven but the small ...

18 July 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Manchester House pops up in Bolton with Aiden Byrne at the stove

Manchester House pops up in Bolton with Aiden Byrne at the stove

MANCHESTER House’s chef/patron Aiden Byrne is hosting a pop-up version at this year’s Bolton Food and Drink Festival over the August Bank Holiday (25 to 28). His ‘Made in Bolton’ restaurant will be in town ...

18 July 2017

Get up, stand up and listen to Turtle Bay Spotify and Don Letts podcasts

Get up, stand up and listen to Turtle Bay Spotify and Don Letts podcasts

RECOGNISING that music is a major part of the Turtle Bay package, the groundbreaking Caribbean restaurant and bar is giving everyone access to its famous laid back playlists on Spotify. Plus they have commissioned the ...

18 July 2017 by Neil Sowerby

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