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Moon Rabbit goes Bundobust for Manchester Food and Drink Festival

Moon Rabbit goes Bundobust for Manchester Food and Drink Festival

MAYBE it’s the ultimate fusion food, a collaboration for MFDF between ‘space age Asian’ eaterie atop Urbis The Rabbit In The Moon and Bundobust, ‘craft beer meets Gujarati veggie snacks’ in a basement off Piccadilly ...

3 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Manchester Loves Cocktails all week (well, we knew that)

Manchester Loves Cocktails all week (well, we knew that)

NEXT week’s citywide liquor extravaganza Manchester Loves Cocktails (September 4-10) is jam packed with treats and looks set to better 2016 when it attracted more than 2,500 aficionados. Check out its website for the staggering ...

1 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

First look at (and a taste of) Wood McR, relaxed fine dining on First Street

First look at (and a taste of) Wood McR, relaxed fine dining on First Street

‘IT’S Showtime’ was the social media message from WOOD Mcr on the day of their launch this week, culmination of the highest profile, personality-led build-up to a restaurant with fine dining pretensions we can remember ...

1 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

POTTED IT! JUNKYARD GOLF CLUB MOVES TO FIRST STREET 

POTTED IT! JUNKYARD GOLF CLUB MOVES TO FIRST STREET 

JUNKYARD Golf Club, one of the surprise leisure successes of revcent times, two years on has outgrown its original space at Piccadilly Place and moved to First Street, where its neighbours include Gasworks, Liquor Store ...

1 September 2017

Garden chic Quays – first look at The Botanist MediaCityUK

Garden chic Quays – first look at The Botanist MediaCityUK

WE always wonder if the New World Trading Company has a mega barn full of ‘previously loved’ farm and garden tools plus a tottering pile of weathered timber to furnish their burgeoning Botanist chain – ...

1 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

GRAB YOUR TICKETS FOR THE BIG INDIE WINE FEST IN MANCHESTER HALL

GRAB YOUR TICKETS FOR THE BIG INDIE WINE FEST IN MANCHESTER HALL

MFDF’S Big Indie Wine Fest has been hosted in some spectacular spaces from Manchester Town Hall’s Great Hall to The Whitworth to the Engine House of of the People’s History Museum, but this year’s venue ...

1 September 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Alchemist's 'golden spaceship' lands in MediaCityUK

Alchemist's 'golden spaceship' lands in MediaCityUK

THE striking new MediaCityUK Alchemist Bar & Restaurant has opened in The Bund, a prime waterside location between The Lowry Theatre and MediaCityUK and it certainly makes an architectural statement. This futuristic £1.2m development featuring ...

1 September 2017

Buy local! Ancoats Food Assembly up and running

Buy local! Ancoats Food Assembly up and running

NCOATS Food Assembly is finally on-stream, filling a genuine gap in this up and coming foodie quarter par excellence – a weekly source of quality fresh produce. From September 1 you can order produce from ...

31 August 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Manchester Thai Festival 2017 at Platt Fields

Manchester Thai Festival 2017 at Platt Fields

MANCHESTER’S annual Thai Festival is back bigger than ever at Platt Fields this weekend (September 2 and 3) with authentic delicacies on offer, live cooking demos, Thai produce, live music, traditional massage, eating competition, a ...

31 August 2017

Great Hall is whisky heaven all weekend

Great Hall is whisky heaven all weekend

THE Manchester Whisky Festival 2017 is back this Friday and Saturday, (September 1 and 2), in Manchester Town Hall’s spectacular Great Hall with the promise of fresh additions and even more drams for your buck. ...

31 August 2017

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