Now in its forth year, the annual fur filled event, The Pet Show is coming back to Warwickshire’s Stoneleigh Park, and this time, it’s bigger and better.For 2016, the U.K’s largest multi-pet event is teaming ...
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Vermilion to expand with 800-capacity events hall
IT’s not just Manchester City’s Etihad Campus that’s expanding big time in the north east of the city. Pioneering restaurant/bar Vermilion/Cinnabar has announced it it is to create the ‘Vermilion Hall’, a vast space for ...
Get your round in at Spinningfields’ new bar, The Club House
A BEVVY at the 19th hole is as close as TOM has got to swinging a club in anger. And we wouldn’t be seen dead in checked trews… or that green blazer Danny Willett has ...
When Nacho met Quique – seven Michelin stars, seven courses at Iberica dinner
WE’VE been spoiled for choice with the influx of quality Spanish restaurants into Manchester. Now one of the heavyweights of Iberian cuisine is visiting the city for the first time to cook in the kitchens ...
Top chef Robert Owen Brown turns Italian for two nights only
ROBERTO Owen Bruno – it has a certain ring to it, but TOM never expected to see that arch-exponent of Northern English nose to tail traditional food guest cheffing at Manchester’s longest running Italian restaurant, ...
Downtown Manhattan at Urban Cookhouse – criminal to ignore it
BEST way to establish your New Yoik credentials? Invite The Fun Lovin Criminals to man the decks at your first birthday party. Urban Cookhouse did just that and threw in a batch of dirty food ...
Lowdown on this weekend's Northern Vegan Festival
THE Northern Vegan Festival is back next Saturday (April 23) at its usual Northern Quarter haunts, centred around Sacha’s Hotel (Tib Street M4 1SH). This year at Sacha’s there will be 95 stalls, including a ...
Be At One – how to lure a load of appi cocktail customers
A BARFLY’s life has few greater disappointments than missing Happy Hour by a whisker. Or should that be by a whiskey? Be At One, latest addition to Manchester’s competitive cocktail scene, in the old Circle ...
Refreshing the Manc Neighbourhood – and launching in Liverpool
NEIGHBOURHOOD, the bar that three years ago brought the Manhattan vibe to Manchester (since slavishly followed) is to get a £1m refurb. James HItchen’s celeb-friendly brand is also spreading its wings to Liverpool on the ...
Grenache in Walkden to close
SADDEST restaurant news of the year – Grenache, one of Greater Manchester’s best restaurants, is closing. Chef proprietor Mike Jennings announced via Facebook last night: "We have out grown the building with our concept and ...