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Seek out these Five Street Food Faves at the MFDF Hub in Albert Square

Seek out these Five Street Food Faves  at the MFDF Hub in Albert Square

JUST a fortnight to the start of the 2016 Manchester Food and Drink Festival. It’s a citywide event, venturing far with its Fringe Events, but the the focus is inevitably the Festival Hub in St ...

13 September 2016

Mark Poynton joins Nacho Manzano at Iberica for MFDF 2016 game dinner

Mark Poynton joins Nacho Manzano at Iberica for MFDF 2016 game dinner

A GAME themed dinner by two Michelin chefs at the top of their game – it has to be one of the highlights of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival. So stick in your diary ...

13 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

GRUB FOOD FAIR AT THE RUNAWAY BREWERY 2016 GRAND FINALE

GRUB FOOD FAIR AT THE RUNAWAY BREWERY 2016 GRAND FINALE

GRUB are bringing their GRUB Food Fair at Runaway Brewery to an end for 2016 this Saturday (Sept17) but not without putting together one of their biggest street food parties of the year with two ...

12 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Indy Man Beer Con brewery line-up announced plus a new pricing policy

Indy Man Beer Con brewery line-up announced plus a new pricing policy

LESS than a month to go until Indy Man Beer Con pours its heart out at Victoria Baths. All that lovely beer in that iconic heritage setting. Taste of Manchester’s thirst for the event (October ...

12 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Spanish Tapas Trail heads a host of Iberian treats at Manchester Food and Drink Festival

Spanish Tapas Trail heads a host of Iberian treats at Manchester Food and Drink Festival

SOME clever hombre at Taste of Manchester labelled the cluster of Spanish restaurants around Deansgate the ‘Magnifico Seven’ and the monicker seems to have stuck. Take a bow Evuna, El Rincon, Tapeo, La Bandera, Iberico, ...

12 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

French’s Adam Reid flies the flag for Manchester in this week’s Great British Menu

French’s Adam Reid flies the flag for Manchester in this week’s Great British Menu

MAKE a date in your telly diary for Monday (September 12). That’s the start of the weeklong North West heats of BBC 2’s Great British Menu when a trio of local chefs battle it out ...

7 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Roc & Rye promises coffee and cocktails in a spectacular setting

Roc & Rye promises coffee and cocktails in a spectacular setting

SEAN Finnegan’s CV is a random roll call of cutting edge bars. From the legendary Mash & Air to Red’s True Barbecue and El Capo in Manchester via the likes of Platinum and Baby Blue ...

7 September 2016

Everybody must get steined! Albert's Schloss stages its own Oktoberfest

Everybody must get steined! Albert's Schloss stages its own Oktoberfest

THE above could be you – and it will earn you free beers at Albert Schloss’s upcoming version of the Oktoberfest Beer Festival. Dress up in your Dirndl or Lederhosen, any trad German dress will ...

6 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

This is how we like sourcing – South Manchester Food Assembly and a pint!

This is how we like sourcing – South Manchester Food Assembly and a pint!

TASTE of Manchester is a big fan of food producers banding together, creating a viable alternative to the supermarket run. So it was a pleasure to attend the relaunch after a summer break of the ...

5 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Exciting Didsbury addition Hispi ‘taking bookings this week’

Exciting Didsbury addition Hispi ‘taking bookings this week’

THE arrival of Hispi in Didsbury is getting palpably closer with the announcement they are taking bookings later this week (beginning September 5). We also like the specimen dinner menu they have posted on Twitter ...

5 September 2016 by Neil Sowerby

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