AIDEN Byrne is joining the dots! Bluedot, the new festival of music, science and space exploration at Jodrell bank (July 22-24) wouldn’t be the complete without feeding the inner spaceman. So they’ve signed up Manchester’s ...
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Lancashire gastropub par excellence – Nutter’s Bird is off to a flier
ANDREW Nutter knows how to throw a good party, so no surprise that the outward-going chef arrived by helicopter at the celeb launch of his new pub venture, the Bird at Birtle. Taste of Manchester, ...
Manchester Food and Drink Awards 2016 – The Shortlists
HERE are the shortlists for the Manchester Food nd Drink Awards 2016. This year there are 15 major categories in total, including four new ones – Premium and Fine Dining Venue of the Year, Casual ...
URBAN COOKHOUSE ‘SUMMER CAMP’ WITH POOL AND POOCHES
URBAN Cookhouse’s newly launched ‘Summer Camp’ has gone to the dogs – and we don’t mean the classic New York meaty treats that are one of its culinary calling cards. The Big Apple inspired independent ...
Revel in a summer in the Rhone at TNQ
THE monthly Gourmet Evenings at the Northern Quarter Restaurant Bar revel in their own culinary and geographical ambition and that’s certainly true of the latest, A Summer In The Rhone. It’s a five course dinner ...
Magnificent seven street food traders announced for B.Eat St July 15 launch
JULY 15. Put it in your diary as the day that moribund Deansgate Mews is magicked into B.EAT Street – an alternative food, booze and art universe, complete with Godzilla murals and a seven metre ...
Wok on! Zouk aim to repeat last year's Glastonbury triumph
MUSE, Adele and Coldplay all headline the Pyramid Stage menu at this year’s Glastonbury Festival running from this Wednesday, June 22 to Sunday, June 26. With 135,000 folk due to brave the inevitable mud the ...
First look at Grape to Grain – impressive new Prestwich hang-out
TOM Sneesby and Joannes Hubertus van Goethem sound like characters out of a Patricia Highsmith noir novel. In person they are as engaging as their new bar/bottle shop, Grape to Grain, along Prestwich’s hottest strip. ...
Two thirds of IndyManBeerCon tickets snapped up inside 48 hours
HOT cakes never sold out as fast as IndyManBeerCon hot places. The precious tickets for this autumn’s 2016 craft beer gathering only went on sale at 9pm on Wednesday, June 15, but already the Friday ...
Stepping out of a tall shadow – Adam Reid, head chef at The French
IT’s easy to slip into typecasting. So Simon Rogan is the Sorcerer and Adam Reid his apprentice in the creative cauldron that is The French’s kitchen. One casts the spells, the other copies his master ...