SPANISH vermouth the next big fling? Maybe – on the evidence of a palate cleansing Casa Mariol vermut from Barcelona at the launch of Lunya’s summer menu. Gin, a relationship consummated big time in the ...
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Requiem for city centre restaurants as newcomer Quill is written off
THE lights are going out all over Manchester. That’s a huge exaggeration but it has been a wobbly week with a spate of restaurant closures in Manchester city centre culminating in the demise of Quill ...
Peaking quite soon – 'Modern British' eaterie Grafene to launch in July
GRAFENE, the restaurant named after the revolutionary material, is on course to open this July in the former Brasserie Blanc premises that have stood empty for an amazing seven years. Many have eyed the corner ...
Sweet surrender! Lowry afternoon tea with new head pastry chef Ririn
NOT everyone at Taste of Manchester is up to their arms in flour at the drop of a wooden spoon or has come through a soggy bottom moment. Cynically we doubt if all 14 million ...
Peacock Room shows off its culinary plumage but does the 'Decadence' dazzle?
AS diners we pay so much attention to what’s on the plate before us, often capturing on camera the artful arrangement of foams, micro leaves and ‘lamb three ways’, that we ignore what’s hanging above ...
Bourbon Brothers aim to raise the spirit levels
TASTE of Manchester is astonished at the city’s unquenchable thirst for drinks tasting events, the latest being the Town Hall takeover by The Bourbon Brothers. Billed as the UK’s biggest bourbon event, it offers the ...
THE ALCHEMIST EXPANDS WITH LAVISH NEW VENUE AT MEDIACITYUK
A MUCH needed boost for the food and drink scene in MediaCityUK is the promised arrival of The Alchemist bar on a prime waterfront site – The Bund at Dock 9 on the walkway next ...
Brassica's Paul Faulkner five-courser at Ancoats Supper Club
WHAT could be more the flavour of summer than the lemon posset and macerated summer berries pictured above? This course alone makes you want to book your ticket for the next Ancoats Supper Club event ...
Vive Raymond! Blanc team launch two Cheshire venues on June 27
RAYMOND Blanc’s Cheshire double whammy will take place on Monday June 27 when he simultaneously launches the Brasserie Blanc in Knutsford and The Oakwood in Alderley Edge. This reinvention of two former Loch Fyne sites ...
Gary Usher's Hispi captures Didsbury Jem & I site
HISPI has found a nest at last. As predicted, in deepest Didsbury. Which may further ruffle the feathers of all those Chorltonites who bolstered chef Gary Usher’s crowdfunding campaign, which raised £58,650 for his new ...