BEES have never been more high profile in Manchester, symbolising the defiance of the city and also its proud creativity. What better way to toast these busy heroes than with a pint made from our ...
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Squirrels take cover! Permanent Pennine base for star chef Robert Owen Brown
IT was a ‘Chef Livingstone, I presume’ moment. To get there we’d tackled England’s longest continual ascent – 968 feet of climbing in 5.5 miles without a dip. The B6138 up from Mytholmroyd was a ...
Welcome to Fress, NQ bar/restaurant with a difference
THIS is Jenn Hargreaves and Sam Morgan, the team behind Fress, a 'Modern Victorian style' bar restaurant due to open on Oldham Street this Friday (June 30). ToM dropped into the former newsagent’s at No ...
Well pasta their target as more than 26,000 folk flocked to Festa Italiana
LITTLE Italy? No way. Manchester’s first bespoke Italian Festival was Italy Writ Large, Rome, Milan and Napoli rolled into one, as more than 20,000 visitors packed into Cathedral Gardens over the three days of Festa ...
What's on the menu at Manchester International Festival
AMID all its boundary pushing premieres and parades the MANCHESTER International Festival has never neglected food and this year’s 18 day extravaganza (June 29-July 16) is no different. Even better, after often importing street food ...
Albert Square Chop House victorious at Business Awards
CONGRATULATIONS to the Albert Square Chop House for walking away with Hospitality Venue of 2017 at the annual Downtown City of Manchester Business Awards. A comparative minnow, Roger Ward’s ‘baby’ Chop House (after Sam’s and ...
It's official – Manchester is the cask beer swigging capital of the UK
MANCHESTER has emerged as the cask beer capital of Britain, following a major new study into the beer sold in the city’s pubs and bars. The Manchester Beer Audit 2017 has found 411 different cask ...
‘UNBREAKABLE MANCHESTER’ T-SHIRTS, new look Liars Club, Crazy Pedro's heads west
THE folk behind Crazy Pedro's, The Liars Club and Cane & Grain are busy, busy at the moment. Not just relaunching The Liars after a £250,000 refurb with a new cocktail menu and announcing a ...
Spinning it around – snapshots of summer in the city’s hottest quarter
SPINNINGFIELDS in its early days was all blustery canyons between office blocks, a drab parade of chain eateries along the river the main food and drink offering. Credit to developers Allied London, they turned it ...
Countdown to Manchester Beer Week – 10 days of blissful hoppiness
COULDN’T organise a piss-up in a brewery? Doesn’t apply to Manchester Beer Week, who have persuaded a dozen of our finest to open their doors in a spectacular start to 10 days (June 23-July 2) ...