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. ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
£21,000 raised to fight famine by Iberica Too Many Critics Dinner
BIG congratulations to Action Against Hunger for raising over £21,000 from their Too Many Critics charity dinner at Iberica – and to cook-off winner on the night Emily Heward of the Manchester Evening News. She ...
We'll be Two Michelin standard even if we don't get a star, vows Rabbit man Michael O'Hare
THE Northern Restaurant and Bar hospitality trade show’s central NRB Debate generated the oxygen of publicity this year when it put Gary Neville and Michael O’Hare centre stage at Manchester Central. Together the pair are ...