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Eight sustainable fish dishes fresh from Manchester’s Arndale Market

Eight sustainable fish dishes fresh from Manchester’s Arndale Market

EASTER means fish. And you thought it was all about Chocolate Eggs and Hot Cross Buns? No, the religious tradition remains that you choose seafood over meat on Good Friday, which is good news for ...

20 March 2016

New Botanist for Knutsford but is the Oast House living on borrowed time?

New Botanist for Knutsford but is the Oast House living on borrowed time?

FLOURISHING times for the New World Trading Company, scooping two awards – Best Employer and Best Managed Pub Company – at The Publican Awards 2016. Oh, and they’ve also rummaged through their toybox of rustic ...

19 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

2016 Northern Restaurant Bar Show Top 50 is a hit parade of our top operators

2016 Northern Restaurant Bar Show Top 50 is a hit parade of our top operators

IT’S the roll call of hospitality honour – the annual Northern Restaurant Bar Show Top 50 and the just announced 2016 list offers proof indeed of the vibrant resurgence of quality food and drink across ...

15 March 2016

Altrincham Market shortlisted for BBC radio food awards

Altrincham Market shortlisted for BBC radio food awards

ALTRINCHAM Market’s latest plaudit is to be named as a finalist in BBC Radio 4’s Food and Farming Awards. In the Best Food Market category it’s up against St Dogmael’s Local Producers Market, Pembrokeshire and ...

15 March 2016

All things artisan as The Makers Market makes a weekend of it in Spinningfields

All things artisan as The Makers Market makes a weekend of it in Spinningfields

SPINNINGFIELDS welcomes The Makers Market back for its second weekend of 2016, on Saturday and Sunday, March 19-20. Showcasing an array of award-winning makers, from highly acclaimed food and drink suppliers to arts, crafts and ...

15 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Alderley Edge’s Yu joins elite band of UK Chinese restaurants

Alderley Edge’s Yu joins elite band of UK Chinese restaurants

THE new Yu in Alderley Edge has been voted one of the best Chinese restaurants in the UK – the only one outside London to earn a coveted three-tier Pagoda listing in theThe Legacy of ...

13 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Dish of the week: Mary-Ellen McTague’s Red Cabbage Gazpacho

Dish of the week: Mary-Ellen McTague’s Red Cabbage Gazpacho

THE news that Mary Ellen McTague had abandoned plans to launch a successor to her acclaimed Aumbry restaurant in the former Roadhouse on Newton Street saddened those of us who are fans of her finely-honed ...

13 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Gin and onions – don’t miss two Lunya celebrations of Iberian icons

Gin and onions – don’t miss two Lunya celebrations of Iberian icons

YOU wait all your Manchester life for one Calcotada to come along and you we get two tasty versions of this Catalan celebration of the Calcot, a kind of spring onion/leek cross. First up in ...

10 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Pampas yourself rotten at Gaucho’s new Saturday Electro Brunch!

Pampas yourself rotten at Gaucho’s new Saturday Electro Brunch!

LIKE the Saturday papers with their abundant supplements making the Sundays superfluous, now brunch, once a Sabbath preserve, is starting the weekend. Well certainly at Gaucho. TOM’s favourite meat-centric joint named after a cowboy of ...

10 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

16th Northern Restaurant Bar show celebrates the region’s culinary resurgence

16th Northern Restaurant Bar show celebrates the region’s culinary resurgence

THE countdown is on for the hospitality industry’s biggest show outside London. Northern Restaurant Bar has become a landmark calendar event for those involved in food and drink and this year’s – March 15 and ...

7 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

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