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 ...
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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 ...
Vegan and Artisan Christmas Market at Altrincham FC
ALTRINCHAM FC may be out of the FA Cup but there’ll be a real hunger about the ground on Sunday (December 11) when it hosts the town’s inaugural Vegan and Artisan Christmas Market. Organisers of ...
Our favourite food and drink books of the year
THESE are very personal choices from another prodigious year of cookbook publishing. I make no apologies for ignoring bestseller lists heavy (though that’s not’s the right word) with body-conscious, guilt-trip, clean eating tomes written by ...
Get merry! Seasonal GRUB Food Fair at Alphabet Brewing Co
ALPHABET spells Christmas this Saturday (December 3) as the Piccadilly Beer Mile brewery puts a seasonal spin on its regular weekly collaboration with street food organisers GRUB. So expect a ‘stollen’ flavoured version of Alphabet’s ...
The Refinery – fluffy capital invader that’s stepping on the gas
OUR definition of a great bar has never been the presence of fluffy woollen throws on every chair back, ’scandi-chic furnishings’ and omnipresent candlelight. All smacks of ‘hygge’, that hype tag of the moment. Still ...
Affordable new lunch menu from Adam Reid at The French
TASTE of Manchester always considered The French’s plates as small but that was all part of a well-timed lengthy tasting menu. It never felt casual. Now the new post-Simon Rogan regime mustered by head chef ...
Swing cats! El Gato Negro celebrates the repeal of Prohibition in style
EL Gato Negro is to step back in time with an exclusive evening of social (and secret) drinking pleasure to toast Repeal Day on Monday, December 5. The day when Prohibition – a United States ...
Can’t be B.Eat? We’ve been tasting what’s new on the Street
SURELY, it’s like ditching the piercings and putting on a suit? Street food going permanent – selling out, comrades? Happily, expanded B.Eat Street, up on Deansgate Mews above the space where it confirmed its Guerrilla ...
The Botanist takes over Didsbury Wetherspoons site
SCHOOL Lane in Didsbury Village is refreshed as food and drink destination. Solita is well settled in a site where Cibo and before that La Tasca failed to hold the attention. Now it is sharing ...