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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

Hats off to The Lowry for making merry with great Christmas menus

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 ...

13 December 2016

First look at Bundobust – veggie street food sensation from across the Pennines

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 ...

13 December 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Bundobust and Seven Bro7hers – two refreshing new openings

 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 ...

6 December 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Matas take full control of Tapeo as partners pursue new project

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 ...

6 December 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Polish and Jamaican flavours spice up The Kitchens

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 ...

6 December 2016 by Neil Sowerby

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