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Moss Side Food Festival – local and global in one melting pot

Moss Side Food Festival – local and global in one melting pot

‘GLOBAL’ and ‘Street’ go together like mango and chutney, buns and slaw in the ever-expanding world of food fests, but the new Moss Side Food Festival offers a fresh spin on the whole melting pot. ...

10 May 2017

B.EAT STREET DONATES £1 FROM EVERY DRINK TO CHRISTIE'S ON FRIDAY, May 19

B.EAT STREET DONATES £1 FROM EVERY DRINK TO CHRISTIE'S ON FRIDAY, May 19

LEGENDARY DJ Gareth Brooks will be hosting a fundraising event at the revived B.Eat Street at the Great Northern on Friday, May 19 to raise vital funds for cancer hospital The Christie following the recent ...

10 May 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Sam and Luke fly the North West flag in Estrella Damm National Awards

Sam and Luke fly the North West flag in Estrella Damm National Awards

MANCHESTER’S talented young chefs make their cutting edge presence felt on the shortlists for the Estrella Dam National Restaurant Awards just announced. The Chef to Watch category features both Sam Buckley (above) of Stockport’s Where ...

9 May 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Spend the weekend in Transylvania via Albert Square!

Spend the weekend in Transylvania via Albert Square!

TRANSYLVANIA gets it in the neck through all that Dracula mythmaking but for a taste of its true folksy heritage look no further than a free festival taking over Albert Square this weekend (May 13-14) ...

9 May 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Mixing it with the best at Cocktails in the City

Mixing it with the best at Cocktails in the City

IT’S hard to credit the upcoming Cocktails In The City, held this time at Old Granada Studios, has now been running for five years, a period in which the Manchester cocktail scene has exploded with ...

9 May 2017

FILLING THE BOWL – CASTLEFIELD FOODFEST IS BACK WITH A CAMPFIRE ADVENTURE

FILLING THE BOWL – CASTLEFIELD FOODFEST IS BACK WITH A CAMPFIRE ADVENTURE

MORE than 40,000 folk flocked to last year’s second Castlefield Food Festival. This year organisers are hoping for 50,000 plus for the free, four day event, which kicks off on Thursday, May 11 and tuns ...

8 May 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Tim Bacon Foundation announces citywide charity dinner and after-party

Tim Bacon Foundation announces citywide charity dinner and after-party

TIM Bacon always knew how to throw a great party and it seems appropriate that a year after the Living Ventures boss’s death a unique citywide banquet in his memory has been launched. On Thursday, ...

5 May 2017 by Neil Sowerby

No cauli wobbles in Simon's confident countdown to Wood

No cauli wobbles in Simon's confident countdown to Wood

YOU never considered cauliflower could be a thing of beauty? Think again. In the hands of Simon Wood it is a work of art on the plate. Witness the 2015 Masterchef winner’s take (avoiding cheese) ...

4 May 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Fodder Episode 3: The Not Just Soup Podcast

Fodder Episode 3: The Not Just Soup Podcast

Over the last 2 years Manchester restaurants have been helping to feed hundreds of homeless people across Manchester.In this podcast we join “Not Just Soup” the group behind the project and we meet the homeless ...

4 May 2017

Manchester Gin turns one and celebrates with a boozy secret bash

Manchester Gin turns one and celebrates with a boozy secret bash

TOAST the first birthday of Manchester Gin at a bar so secret we’re not telling you where it is just yet! The exclusive anniversary shindig is on Thursday, May 11 (from 6pm) at Behind Closed ...

4 May 2017 by Neil Sowerby

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