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Star chef Jean-Christophe Novelli guests at Don Giovanni

Star chef Jean-Christophe Novelli guests at Don Giovanni

REGULARS at Don Giovanni on Oxford Street have already been enjoying the bespoke dishes created for Manchester’s oldest continuously trading Italian restaurant by celeb chef Jean-Christophe Novelli. Now comes the chance, on Tuesday, January 17, ...

3 January 2017 by Neil Sowerby

IT'S MEAT-FREE GRUB AT ALPHABET ONE-OFF EXTRAVEGANZA!

IT'S MEAT-FREE GRUB AT ALPHABET ONE-OFF EXTRAVEGANZA!

GRUB’S Food Fairs at Alphabet Brewing Co, close to Piccadilly Station, were a huge weekly hit in late 2016 and now the organisers have revealed plans to embrace the New Year challenge of going vegan ...

3 January 2017

REAL JUNK FOOD MANCHESTER RAISE THEIR £20,000 AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

REAL JUNK FOOD MANCHESTER RAISE THEIR £20,000 AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

A WEEK ahead of schedule Real Junk Food Manchester have hit their £20,000 crowdfunding target after a surge of donations ahead of #junkfoodfriday, their big social media push scheduled for January 6. The deadline was ...

3 January 2017 by Neil Sowerby

Seitan vs The Evil Chicken – Welcome to Veganuary

Seitan vs The Evil Chicken – Welcome to Veganuary

WE like Edge Street. Because it keeps a certain NQ edge with its indie start-ups. OK, some of you still haven’t warmed to the makeover of pioneer bar Common, but get over it. And, if ...

2 January 2017 by Neil Sowerby

O’Hare’s Rabbit has landed – tuck into bubble waffle and electric lime leaf

O’Hare’s Rabbit has landed – tuck into bubble waffle and electric lime leaf

THERE’s nowhere else in town you’d come face to face with a 17 course tasting menu for £75 that encompasses dishes from some culinary outer space, but then The Rabbit In The Moon is the ...

29 December 2016 by Neil Sowerby

A TURTLE BAY TWIST ON CHRISTMAS - SERVE CURRIED GOAT ON CHRISTMAS DAY

A TURTLE BAY TWIST ON CHRISTMAS  - SERVE CURRIED GOAT ON CHRISTMAS DAY

Are you bored of the usual Christmas Day festive food? Well Turtle Bay has the perfect solution! Curried Goat is served throughout the Caribbean on holidays and celebrations, and none more so than Christmas Day. ...

19 December 2016

Five food and fun-filled stop-offs to avoid the Christmas crush

Five food and fun-filled stop-offs to avoid the Christmas crush

EXHAUSTED the Christmas Markets? Or been exhausted by them? There’s still time to tackle Taste of Manchester’s Alternative Christmas mooch this Saturday. It’s a roundabout route but you’ll miss the crowds (ie you won’t miss ...

16 December 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Spanish tapas masters La Bandera set out their stall in the Arndale

Spanish tapas masters La Bandera set out their stall in the Arndale

THINGS are looking up foodwise in Manchester Arndale with the arrival on its ‘South Side’ of a street food outlet of Ridgefield’s outstanding Spanish retsaurant La Bandera (ToM review gave it five stars). They are ...

16 December 2016

Have yourself a Merry Makers Market in Chorlton this Saturday

Have yourself a Merry Makers Market in Chorlton this Saturday

WITH Christmas looming it’s appropriate that the biggest Chorlton Makers Market yet is setting out its stall (well more than 80 of them) in the grounds of St Oswald’s School and Chorlton Library on Saturday, ...

16 December 2016

Grafene offers some pretty platefuls to celebrate its first Christmas

Grafene offers some pretty platefuls to celebrate its first Christmas

SUCH is the welter of new openings Grafene, just six months old, feels like a Manchester old stager but this is its first Christmas and it is celebrating it in some style. The space it ...

15 December 2016

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