CONGRATULATIONS to Dominique Ashford, dessert development chef at Manchester House, for seeing off 13 rivals in the first Ultimate Eccles Cake Off, held at Solita Didsbury (above). Her Eccles cake featured chocolate, cheery and stout ...
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GRUB’S NEW MAYFIELD HOME TO HOST MANCHESTER BEER WEEK LAUNCH PARTY
IT was great to hear GRUB appointed to manage the new weekly food fair at the Mayfield Depot. Even better that within a month they will be hosting the launch party for the second Manchester ...
Randall & Aubin Manchester and the mystery of the misfit mirror ball
THERE’S a certain frisson in watching a restaurant take shape. The glitch is father to the glitz. One minute a hard-hat-on-please, never-going-to-be-ready-in-time shell, the next a glass of bubbly being proffered as you take in ...
GRUB to run street food fair from May kick-starting mega Mayfield project
THINGS move fast in today’s Manchester. Only in February developers revealed plans to create a four-storey food, drink and culture hub in the Mayfield Depot, as the vanguard of the £850 million regeneration of the ...
Where to grab a bargain bite during the spring student shopathon
MANCHESTER’s student shopping extravaganza, MCR Student Night Out, is back on Thursday, April 27 – a whirlwind shopathon encompassing over 140 exclusive one-night-only discounts, music and entertainment on the streets and in store across the ...
Fat Beans spreading the fast food vegan gospel
THE vegan food bandwagon is still on a roll with perhaps its most high profile North West exponent road-testing a new fast food venture we have high hopes for. Fat Beans is the brainchild of ...
Follow in the footsteps of Hawaiian fisher folk and do the Oké Poké
HAWAIIAN fishermen have long been in short supply in the Northern Quarter. Easy to blame global warming or the absence of colourful enough shirts for them. So it’s good to say aloha to the next ...
Big Easy does it in Manchester with this trio of New Orleans inspired dishes
ÉTOUFFÉE, Po’ boy and Muffuletta – a holy trinity of New Orleans favourites you can now sample in Manchester. A chance to go big on the Big Easy. OK, maybe Crazy Pedro’s April pizza special ...
Salvi's opens prosecco and champagne bar inside Corn Exchange atrium
THE UK drinks 2.5 times more prosecco than the drink’s native Italy – official. Even though it’s more than twice the price. And it looks like Manchester’s Corn Exchange is doing its best to tap ...
Rose Garden shuts as owners jump ship for the seaside
IT’S a year exactly since Taste of Manchester gave West Didsbury’s Rose Garden a five star review. We were not alone in cherishing William Mills’ aspirational independent neighbourhood restaurant, alone on the Burton Road strip ...