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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

A refreshing bite – Grub Food fair at Runaway Brewery

A refreshing bite – Grub Food fair at Runaway Brewery

RUNAWAY Brewery kicks off a new monthly collaboration with those enterprising Green Quarter pop-upsters, GRUB, on Saturday, March 19. For the debut GRUB Food Fair, Runaway’s archway on Dantzic street will host the likes of ...

7 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Makers Market relaunches in the Northern Quarter on Sunday, March 13

Makers Market relaunches in the Northern Quarter on Sunday, March 13

STEVENSON Square will host the first Northern Quarter Makers Market of the year this Sunday (March 13) with a street food line-up that includes Stomping Ground, rustling up organic and free range Turkish-English cuisine, What's ...

7 March 2016

Robert Owen Brown is weekend guest chef at Palate, Chorlton

Robert Owen Brown is weekend guest chef at Palate, Chorlton

PALATE bar in Chorlton is handing over its kitchen for an entire weekend (March 11-13) to that nomadic chef for hire Robert Owen Brown, who’ll be cooking some of the signature dishes that appear in ...

6 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Indian Tiffin Room adds authentic spice to First Street

Indian Tiffin Room adds authentic spice to First Street

TOM is excited by the new wave of Indian restaurants colonising the city centre. We expect to have full details soon of Leeds incomer Bundobust’s plans for its Piccadilly site. Meanwhile, the opening last week ...

6 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

Marble toast chocolate ale's sweet success and host Magic Rock

Marble toast chocolate ale's sweet  success and host Magic Rock

HEADY times at Marble. The godfather of today’s crop of Manchester craft breweries has scooped a major national award for its Chocolate Marble – Champion Winter Beer of Britain at CAMRA’s National Winter Ales festival ...

6 March 2016 by Neil Sowerby

THE LOWRY HOTEL'S RIVER RESTAURANT: MARCH CHEF’S CHOICE MENU

THE LOWRY HOTEL'S RIVER RESTAURANT: MARCH CHEF’S CHOICE MENU

It’s the start of a new month and you know what that means, The River Restaurant at The Lowry Hotel have revealed this month's chef’s choice menu.This month see’s an adventurous start to the feast, ...

4 March 2016 by Heidi Elliott

EVUNA NQ RIOJA ROCKS TASTING

EVUNA NQ RIOJA ROCKS TASTING

After 13 years in the business Spain seems more like a continent than a country due to its diversity not just in wine but cultures, gastronomy and politics. The last 3 years in the UK ...

3 March 2016

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