WELL, without beating about the dough, definitely. ToM is a big fan of both Companio and Trove, but Hannah Calvert and Chris Kelly’s new bakery underneath the arches on Sheffield Street shades their closest rivals. ...
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Award-winning Eagle and Child popping up in Bolton's Vaults
RAMSBOTTOM’S Eagle and Child, Food Pub of the Year in the 2016 Manchester Food and Drink Awards, is giving Bolton a chance to taste its classic dishes in a pop-up inside the town’s revamped Vaults, ...
COTTONOPOLIS JOINS WITH QUINTEASSENTIAL FOR JANUARY DETOX MENUS
TO tell the truth ToM has got over its guilt trip about not going vegan or dry for January. But we know there can be pleasure as well as pain in detoxing. As fans of ...
Naturally fast food champions LEON line up Trafford Centre
HYPER’s the word for the Manc foodie rumour mill. Not a day goes by without some opportunist London brand sniffing around, putting our media on heat. LEON for Piccadilly still sounds a good bet. A ...
Real Junk Food in sight of £40,000 thanks to major crowdfunding fairy godfather
TODAY (Friday 13) is the final day to contribute to the Real Junk Food Manchester crowdfunding project. With a week to go they had bust through their initial £25,000 target and now the doughty food ...
‘ONE LOVE FOR HAITI’ FUNDRAISING THIS JANUARY AT ALL TURTLE BAY RESTAURANTS
WHILE January can be pretty dull, you can get some much needed Caribbean vibes when you visit Turtle Bay restaurants and help out a charitable cause at the same time. Turtle Bay’s ‘One Love for ...
January spells beer as Hispi run tasting menu with Alphabet
WE love the way beer and food matching is taking off. Heartening to see cult NQ vegan restaurant V-Rev launching with such an impressive beer list and Piccadilly Gardens newcomer Bundobust even appointing a beer ...
Salvi’s scoops top Italian award for the authentic quality of its food
CONGRATULATIONS to Salvi’s on joining an elite few at the recent Ospitalita Italiana Awards in London, which acknowledge the most authentic and best Italian restaurants in the world. Only 16 UK venues received the award ...
Make mine a Dirty Martini with a burger on the side
IT’S hard to resolve Dry January and draconian government drink guidelines with the avalanche of new bars heading our way. For London hospitality chains Manchester seems some kind of 21st Century Klondyke – ‘there’s gold ...
It’s Veganuary – are you going to plunge into plant-based eating?
JANUARY is the very time of year to go ‘dry’ or detox for many of us after the excesses of Christmas, so self-denial is in the crisp air. So why not go one step further ...