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Filling the Bowl – Castlefield Food Festival is back

Filling the Bowl – Castlefield Food Festival is back

FOUR days of food-fuelled fun are promised at the second Castlefield Food Festival (May 12-15) with a formula following last year’s inaugural event, which attracted more than 15,000 folk to Castlefield Bowl. So expect the ...

1 May 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Italian Aladdin’s Cave Salvi’s – a top deli fuelling a fine restaurant

Italian Aladdin’s Cave Salvi’s – a top deli fuelling a fine restaurant

IN our first look at the impressive new look Piccolino Caffe Grande we playfully cited it as part of the Italian fightback against all those cool Spanish invaders. One of those, Lunya, in the Barton ...

1 May 2016 by Neil Sowerby

A tribute to Tim Bacon – city’s food and drink giant

A tribute to Tim Bacon – city’s food and drink giant

MANCHESTER is mourning the loss of one of its most vibrant adopted sons – Tim Bacon. The Living Ventures founder has died aged only 52, after losing his long battle against cancer. It is no ...

1 May 2016 by Neil Sowerby

SCENE BRINGS THE FAR EAST TO MANCHESTER WITH THE LAUNCH OF THEIR RIVERSIDE TERRACE

SCENE BRINGS THE FAR EAST TO MANCHESTER WITH THE LAUNCH OF THEIR RIVERSIDE TERRACE

Scene have brought the far east to Manchester with the launch of their quarter-of-a-million-pound heated riverside terrace to their Spinningfields restaurant. With a seating capacity of 150, this spring will see Manchester drinkers and diners ...

28 April 2016

THE LATEST SINGLE FROM LILY-JO

THE LATEST SINGLE FROM LILY-JO

Friday 29th April sees the launch of Lily-Jo's latest single Bring Me Back. It's taken off her five track EP 'Need to Know' on Light Music. The launch is accompanied by Lily-Jo's first music video ...

28 April 2016

Pimp My Rice – Mowgli guru cooking demo at Waterstones

Pimp My Rice – Mowgli guru cooking demo at Waterstones

MY shelves hardly creak with books devoted to rice. Just the two and that’s surely enough? They are The Rice Book by veteran foodie Sri Owen and Every Grain of Rice by fragrant Sinophile Fuchsia ...

27 April 2016 by Neil Sowerby

First look: Piccolino Caffe Grande

First look: Piccolino Caffe Grande

CAVIAR at cost price, Coravin gadgets to give you the chance to sample by the glass Italy’s finest wines and specialist counters devoted to meat, fish and cheese plus a domed copper pizza oven that’s ...

27 April 2016 by Neil Sowerby

TARIFF & DALE LAUNCH NEW RESTAURANT MENU

TARIFF & DALE LAUNCH NEW RESTAURANT MENU

TARIFF & Dale have launched a brand new menu in their basement restaurant.The Northern Quarter bar opened its doors just over a year ago and quickly became a firm favourite in the city’s coolest neighbourhood ...

27 April 2016

London group to open new bars at Leftbank and One St Peter’s Square

London group to open new bars at Leftbank and One St Peter’s Square

MANCHESTER must now be the world’s thirstiest city. News comes of further metropolitan bar operators keen to slake those all-day thirsts and, of course, cater for our further cravings for the likes of Wagyu burgers ...

19 April 2016

90 stalls as West Didsbury Makers Market returns

90 stalls as West Didsbury Makers Market returns

WEST Didsbury's food, vintage and modern craft market, The Makers Market returns this Sunday (April 24) transforming Withington Community Hospital car park into an urban creative hub packed with 90 stalls and offering live music ...

19 April 2016

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