WE never saw this one coming Michael ‘Man behind the Curtain’ O’Hare opens a restaurant in a spot that has never needed curtains. Indeed it was not until the doomed Le Mont morphed into the ...
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Damson Media City – sorry to see you go
IT seems these days that each time a ‘modern English’ fine dining establishment gives up the ghost a new tapas joint appears on the scene. But it’s unique for it to happen within the same ...
More tickets released for Real Junk Food Project MCR 'Binner Party'
THERE’S a real demand for junk, it seems – the kind of ethical and delicious food served up by the Real Junk Food Project Manchester Manchester. Tickets for their Binner Party fundraiser, an MFDF Fringe ...
Chefs cooking live headline MFDF Hub in Albert Square... and there’s so much more
THE two Saturdays of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival always generate the biggest buzz around the Festival Hub in Albert Square with the street food stalls doing a roaring trade and the beer tents ...
MFDF hoppy heaven – Wainwright Bar, 100 Greatest MCR Beers and Albert’s Schloss exclusives
DRINK. A delicious word that sometimes gets overshadowed by the ‘Food’ part in Manchester Food and Drink Festival. Yet it plays a massive role in the 12 day long celebration (September 29 to October 10). ...
Choose you favourite bar, pub or restaurant – at the MFDF Awards your vote counts
IT’S your last chance to cast your vote in the coveted Manchester Food and Drink Awards 2016. The public vote closes at 9am on Wednesday, September 28, so click into the MFDF website and make ...
It’s a plant! Gourmet vegan cooking at The Allotment Stockport
TASTE of Manchester welcomes the wealth of adventurous indie projects in welcome contrast to all the stealthy corporate invasion of our food culture (rolling out the brand, road-testing the concept etc). So it’s good to ...
Pilcrow community pub opens – a handmade and handsome place to sup
YOU’D think with Indy Man Beer Con (October 6-9) on the horizon Jonny Heyes and Paul Jones (above) wouldn’t be so immersed in a side project, but then The Pilcrow handmade community pub is something ...
Supercharged! We join the electrifying launch party for Refuge by Volta
A SPECTACULAR re-fit demands a spectacular launch party and The Refuge by Volta didn’t disappoint. More than 1,200 guests packed the new food and drink facility inside The Palace Hotel, soon to be renamed The ...
Hidden Banquet 4 – ‘Technology' by Deliveroo moves to London Road
MANCHESTER Food and Drink Festival’s Hidden Banquets series, programmed in partnership with developers Allied London, allows festival-goers to explore some of the city’s secret, undiscovered and down right jaw dropping spaces, in association with exciting ...