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 ...
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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, ...
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 ...
Hats off to The Lowry for making merry with great Christmas menus
CHRiSTMAS brings out the best in hotel dining rooms and nowhere does the season of good cheer better than The Lowry. Partnering sumptuous festive Christmas decorations with food to match from fine young chef Andrew ...
First look at Bundobust – veggie street food sensation from across the Pennines
THE wow factor is a term too easily employed. Like legend. But both look bound to apply to a beautifully adapted basement in an unlovely stretch of Piccadilly, home to the newly arrived Bundobust. The ...
Bundobust and Seven Bro7hers – two refreshing new openings
IT’S neck and neck, but Bundobust looks set to pip Seven Bro7hers Beerhouse to the post by a day in the race to open before Christmas. The first, opening on Wednesday, December 14, in a ...
Matas take full control of Tapeo as partners pursue new project
IT’S all change at the helm of Tapeo, a contender for best Spanish restaurant in a crowded Manchester market under the fastidious stewardship of Nacho Perez and Natalia Esquerado. Now they have parted company with ...
Polish and Jamaican flavours spice up The Kitchens
THE unlikely saviours of the Spinningfields Leftbank Kitchens are a trio of Polish lads specialising in potato pancakes and a 22-year-old messiah for authentic Jamaican soul food. They are the pop-up back-up for the deserved ...
Tickled by Bad Santa’s five Christmas turkeys
WELL it seemed a good idea at the time. We’re not talking Christmas party goofs or voting for Brexit. Just those seasonal ‘specials’ that in the cold light of January will seem as silly as ...
Season-closing Makers Markets in Eccles and the Northern Quarter
THIS time of the year is a busy one for the popular Makers Markets. Certainly the craft and gift stalls hope to catch the eye of potential Christmas prezzie purchasers, with festive food and drink ...