GOURMET kebabs – ToM likes the sound of Bab, latest venture from the NQ’s Pen and Pencil folk. They are even throwing in a ‘Berlin-style’ basement dive bar called The Honey Trap below the 55-cover ...
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First look: Flok sherry and wine bar
SHERRY’S a wine on the wane. In a world where insipid prosecco sales go through the roof that’s a shame. Sadly Spain’s unique fortified styles have an image problem. It’s meant that sales have halved ...
Five Manchester restaurants and the entire Usher stable in UK Top 100
THERE was much lamentation when Manchester’s most high profile fine dining establishments, Manchester House and Adam Reid at The French failed to make the UK Top 100 in the Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards 2017. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...