WE’RE losing track of the quest for world (or at least a street near you) domination that is the Makers Market. You’ll currently find one once a month in the Northern Quarter, Spinningfields, West Didsbury. ...
News
Cheers! Gin cocktails, Green Quarter premium gin and a splashing new Gin Festival
WITH Manchester Loves Cocktails in full swing (see our lowdown) it’s time to look forward to the next big spirited event, the The Gin Society Festival at Manchester Cathedral the first weekend in September. It ...
The Beastro boys serve up a street food feast for ‘Chef’ screening
FOOD apart, there’s nothing Taste of Manchester likes better than a film about food. There’s a new one out, Sweet Bean, a life-affirming, feelgood affair about an old Japanese lady who rescues an ailing street ...
MFDF’S FIRST HIDDEN BANQUET, WITH AIDEN BYRNE, GOES ON SALE ON FRIDAY AT 9AM
TICKETS for the first in Manchester Food and Drink Festival’s Hidden Banquet series is to go on sale at 9am. on Friday August 5. Just 220 diners will have the privilege of eating food by ...
Heroes of the Left – BEASTro trio expand their culinary horizons
IT’S not the kind of dish you’d associate with Bangers and Bacon or their carnivorous offshoot Well Hung. Look at it: scallops, cod and curried fondant potato with shallot puree. So have the Leftbank Kitchens ...
Fodder episode 6: The Body Coach podcast
This week on Fodder we hear from Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach. His incredibly successful "lean in 15" body plan has seen him release two best selling books. Matt meets up with him at ...
Wood you believe it! Cottonopolis Bento Box is a real bargain treat
ICE, fire, steam and oil encased in wood – Manchester’s most distinctive lunch package. Welcome to the Cottonopolis Bento Box, a showcase for the four Orient-inspired food methods that govern the menu at this NQ ...
Manchester Loves Cocktails – a new festival that does what it says
IT’S hard to believe that Manchester Loves Cocktails is the city’s first ever cocktail festival proper but, pass the shaker and let’s get on with it for seven whole days (August 8-14). Like the recent ...
Yu Alderley Edge announces ‘Odyssey of Taste’ with top guest chefs
IT’S the biggest Lancashire invasion since Ribble Valley Inns opened the Nag’s Head at Haughton in deepest Cheshire – and the only parade of stellar guest chefs we can recall cooking at a Chinese restaurant. ...
King Henrikh of Armenia finds a Taverna in the town
IN the bowels of an Albert Square basement you’ll find, as is the norm in veteran eateries, signed photographs of the stars of yesteryear. On this evidence the Armenian Taverna & Restaurant, around since 1968, ...