CONGRATULATIONS to Hawksmoor (team picture above) for scooping Restaurant of the Year at the 2016 Manchester Food and Drink Awards just 12 months after being named Best Newcomer. This year’s winner in that category (and ...
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Crafty purchases? Makers Market is back at Chorlton-cum-Hardy
HEAD down to Oswald School and the Chorlton Library on Saturday, October 16 to welcome back another Chorlton Makers Market – the largest to date with 85 exciting stalls! There’s also a special guest appearance ...
First Street starts filling up and Liquor Store is the latest arrival
FIRST Street, basically the support act for Manchester’s excellent art hub HOME (there’s no place like etc...), is looking increasingly like a curate’s egg, the jury’s out and there ain’t no stopping it now. Which ...
Taste on Two – the spirit was with us at Harvey Nichols’ fun food event
TASTE of Manchester isn’t one for Christmas hampers but knows the Harvey Nichols version is the creme de la creme. Venturing down to the upmarket Exchange Square store’s annual suppliers’ tasting, Taste on Two on ...
Beautiful Indy Man Beer Con – a gallery (mainly of beards)
THERE’S a certain medieval pageantry feel about Indy Man Beer Con – beneath flapping brewery pennants bearded warriors joust with extreme flavour combinations at strengths that could floor a bear. Surveying the ranks of kegs ...
Hallelujah for Jay Rayner and his edible promised land
IT’S Russia’s loss in not being able to worship at the feet of Observer food critic Jay Rayner, who was due to tour his Ten (Food) Commandments show at Russian Hospitality Week in Moscow, over ...
Manchester Food and Drink Festival heads for its exciting climax
THE closing weekend of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival may be all about looking forward to the event’s climax – the Awards Gala Dinner at the spectacularly refurbished Palace Hotel on Monday, October 10. ...
Shakespeare translates into Italian at San Carlo Bottega
A FEW gentle dishes of Verona, anyone? Selfridge’s have been celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s passing with fashion events that give a whole new meaning to bardolatry. Now it’s the turn of San Carlo ...
Poetry not Poverty – StreetSmart fund-raiser at the MFDF Hub
POETRY with your pint is the deal as homeless charity StreetSmart takes centre stage for a fund-raiser in the Manchester Food and Drink Festival Hub at Albert Square on Wednesday, October 5. The city’s unofficial ...
No Michelin for Manchester again... but The Lakes are full of stars
THE Lakes were the big Northern winners when the Michelin Guide UK handed out the stars for 2017. As expected The Samling overlooking Windermere retained its and was joined by newcomer The Forest Side at ...