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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

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

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