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Bring on the hanging kebabs – a first look at the new Didsbury Botanist

Bring on the hanging kebabs – a first look at the new Didsbury Botanist

WE rather like a horticultural theme in a bar. Maybe not to the extreme of Froheimar in Iceland, which serves you tomato-led dishes in the greenhouse where they were grown (below). ToM was thinking more ...

30 March 2017 by Neil Sowerby

House of Peroni pop-up blends hi-tech art and glitzy cocktails

House of Peroni pop-up blends hi-tech art and glitzy cocktails

YOU’VE got to hand it to Peroni, they put on quite a show, which quite transcends the blandness of the original core product, the beer. For four days next week (Wed, April 5 to Sa, ...

30 March 2017

We preview Beastro – carnivores get down with the vegans!

We preview Beastro – carnivores get down with the vegans!

IT has been a long strange culinary career for Beastro chef Richard Brown, whose first restaurant experience was being hired at the age of 13 by Michelin-starred maverick Paul Kitching at his Altrincham restaurant, Juniper. ...

30 March 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Aperitivo time at Salvi's – toasting the refreshing arrival of spring

Aperitivo time at Salvi's – toasting the refreshing arrival of spring

TO celebrate the arrival of Spring, Salvi’s is about to launch ‘Aperitivo Time’ at their restaurants. It’s a chance to experience Italy's traditional ritual of relaxing with friends and unwinding over a drink, complemented with ...

30 March 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Requiem for Damson, Heaton Moor pioneer heading down the casual route

Requiem for Damson, Heaton Moor pioneer heading down the casual route

ON a day when the ramifications of Brexit shove all else aside a poignant piece of local restaurant news has crept under the radar – a closure. No, not the veteran city centre Chinese, the ...

29 March 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Brooklyn and Fever-Tree head the prestige sponsors for MFDF 2017

Brooklyn and Fever-Tree head the prestige sponsors for MFDF 2017

VISITORS to this year’s Manchester Food and Drink Festival (MFDF) will be able to toast its 20th anniversary with a pint or two of Brooklyn Brewery’s finest or chill with a G&T in the Fever-Tree ...

29 March 2017 by Neil Sowerby

April special food offers from The Lowry Hotel

April special food offers from The Lowry Hotel

SPRING is always an inspiration for chefs and few celebrate it better than Andrew Green at The Lowry Hotel’s River Restaurant. It helps when you’ve built up such an impressive range of regional suppliers (above) ...

29 March 2017

Solita Didsbury to host Great Eccles Cake off in aid of homeless

Solita Didsbury to host Great Eccles Cake off in aid of homeless

THE Eccles Cakes above were shot by Joby Catto (jobycatto.com) for Robert Owen Brown’s cookbook, Crispy Squirrel and Vimto Trifle. It was published only a couple of years after the country’s biggest high street baker ...

26 March 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Real Junk Food Project pop-up at Gray's Larder

Real Junk Food Project pop-up at Gray's Larder

AS the Real Junk Food Project Manchester’s secret new base slowly takes shape in Ancoats, they are spreading their message in Chorlton by teaming up Gray's Larder for a pop-up dinner there.As with all their ...

22 March 2017

TASTE Test: Chorlton Kulfi Sour at Bundobust

TASTE Test: Chorlton Kulfi Sour at Bundobust

IT always puzzles folk that Chorlton Brewing Company is not located in that trendy suburb. Owner/brewer Mike Marcus lives there, but an arch along the Piccadilly beer mile is a more affordable base for brewing ...

22 March 2017 by Neil Sowerby

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