SEE out 2015 with the last ever Friday Food Night – starting on a Thursday! Because that is New Year’s Eve. Still the party goes on in the Great Northern Warehouse with a packed agenda ...
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Pig out on New Year’s Eve at the Bangers & Bacon Chefs Table
END the year as you started it is a TOM maxim. That’s why we are tempted to take on board one more tasting menu to see 2015 out. OK, December 31 dining usually consists of ...
The 12 books of Christmas – treat the obsessive foodie in your life
GALLIMAUFRY is one of my favourite words. Originally it was a kind of stew; then transmogrified (another fave) into meaning a jumble or medley, which is appropriate for my eclectic selection of food books to ...
The Spanish are on top of their game at Iberica with a special menu
GAME season is a particular delight here at Taste of Manchester. It summons up memories of Robert Owen Brown serving up an old school whole grouse with bread sauce and game chips… or perhaps an ...
Life Beers: Nice one, Naughty!
Vocation Brewery “Naughty & Nice"Straight outta Hebden Bridge comes Vocation Brewery. No doubt in ma mind one of the best breweries of 2015. What defines one of the best? When you've not had a bad ...
Bumper Levenshulme market – perfect for prezzie hunting
LEVY Market came a cropper late weekend, cancelled due to the horrific weather, but it’s back this Saturday (December 12) in a bumper version and looks a great place to snap up a Christmas present ...
Jack Frost Nipping At Your Nose? Try These Winter-Warmer Cocktails
Everybody knows Mulled Wine is one of the greatest things about Christmas-time, but if you're entertaining guests over the festive season, try making some of these Nogs and Toddys that you can enjoy either hot ...
Timber, Pilcrow! Out of artfully arranged planks a mighty pub will grow
TAKING Yule logs in a whole different direction down at Manchester’s latest new frontier, Sadler’s Yard, is this Christmas Tree, providing raw materials for the ‘people’s pub’, The Pilcrow. The 11m high, 8 tonne bespoke ...
Healthy Asian-inspired brand itsu to open in Spinningfields
AIMING perhaps to catch the tail-end of the post-festive guilt-trip detox market? Welcome to itsu, importing its ‘eat beautiful’ menu to Hardman Boulevard, Spinningfields from Wednesday, January 27. This Asian-inspired chain, successful in London and ...
Gift of the grape? Head for Three Wine Men Manchester Wine Tasting
STUMPED for top tipple ideas for Christmas? Snap up any remaining tickets for the ever exuberant Three Wine Men tasting at Manchester Town Hall this weekend (December 12-13) and TOM is sure all your problems ...