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Turning over a new Leaf – cult tea bar comes to Portland Street

Turning over a new Leaf – cult tea bar comes to Portland Street

TASTE of Manchester has been delighted with our select culinary imports from Liverpool. OK, Mexican wrestling homage Lucha Libre didn’t last long in the Great Northern Warehouse, but Lunya and Mowgli have both become essential ...

12 October 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Gale blows into Whitefield opposite chocolate king Slattery

Gale blows into Whitefield opposite chocolate king Slattery

SO there was Prestwich happy to be the new Heatons or Monton when suddenly Whitefield is the new Prestwich. Something is definitely stirring foodwise in the suburbs. The new hype around Bury New Road, this ...

11 October 2016 by Neil Sowerby

300 capacity beer hall planned for Northern Quarter

300 capacity beer hall planned for Northern Quarter

ALBERT’S Schloss named Manchester Bar of the Year after a phenomenal first year. Who’d have though beer halls were so bankable? And now, damn you Brexiters, a rival European-style pils-pouring rival is on the way ...

11 October 2016 by Neil Sowerby

2016 MANCHESTER FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS – THE WINNERS

2016 MANCHESTER FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS – THE WINNERS

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 ...

10 October 2016

Crafty purchases? Makers Market is back at Chorlton-cum-Hardy 

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 ...

10 October 2016

First Street starts filling up and Liquor Store is the latest arrival

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 ...

10 October 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Taste on Two – the spirit was with us at Harvey Nichols’ fun food event

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 ...

10 October 2016

Beautiful Indy Man Beer Con – a gallery (mainly of beards)

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 ...

9 October 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Hallelujah for Jay Rayner and his edible promised land

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 ...

8 October 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Manchester Food and Drink Festival heads for its exciting climax

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. ...

6 October 2016 by Neil Sowerby

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