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The Lowry Hotel Wine Dinners are the pick of the bunch for fine wines

The Lowry Hotel Wine Dinners are the pick of the bunch for fine wines

“Wine is like music, ” says Huseyin Bozkurt, food and beverage manager at The Lowry Hotel. “The winemaker must balance all the flavours, like playing the right keys on a piano to get the perfect ...

7 October 2015

You win some, you lose some – digesting the Good Food Guide 2016

You win some, you lose some – digesting the Good Food Guide 2016

THE Good Food Guide never gets us all steamed up in the way Michelin does. It’s been around 65 years, its entries championed in the first instance by its readers rather than being the sole ...

6 October 2015 by Neil Sowerby

Neil Sowerby’s Lebanese Mission (via Chelsea and Kensington!)

Neil Sowerby’s Lebanese Mission (via Chelsea and Kensington!)

SPINNINFIELDS continues its transition from retail to re-fuel. You can still indulge your inner fashion victim at the likes of Emporio Armani and DKNY at the top end (sic) of The Avenue, but stray further ...

6 October 2015 by Neil Sowerby

LET PIZZA BOXES BE YOUR CANVAS, SAY CRAZY PEDRO’S

LET PIZZA BOXES BE YOUR CANVAS, SAY CRAZY PEDRO’S

ART on a pizza box? TOM thinks it’s a topping idea, especially when it’s for charity. So good luck to Motor Square pizza parlour and cocktail bar Crazy Pedro’s which is celebrating National Pizza Month ...

6 October 2015 by Neil Sowerby

Leeds' Bundobust reveal plans to open second site in Manchester

Leeds' Bundobust reveal plans to open second site in Manchester

The renowned Indian Street Food & Craft Beer bar Bundobust have announced plans to open in Manchester city centre in Spring 2016. The Leeds based Bundobust started as a collaboration between award winning institutions Prashad ...

5 October 2015 by Lucy Lovell

Rudy's Neapolitan Pizza brings a slice of Naples to Manchester

Rudy's Neapolitan Pizza brings a slice of Naples to Manchester

Pizza! Everyone knows pizza. Thick and doughy, piled high with cheese and pepperoni, or strewn with tuna and sweetcorn, right? That’s what the pizza scene has traditionally been based on, but pizza in Manchester is ...

29 September 2015 by Lucy Lovell

Raise your glass at the GRUB Oktoberfest this Friday

Raise your glass at the GRUB Oktoberfest this Friday

This Friday sees the GRUB Oktoberfest pitching up at 127 Portland Street - a free festival with a beery bounty and Germanic grub to boot. Our favourite piggy purveyors Bangers & Bacon will be dishing ...

28 September 2015

TNQ Restaurant reveal their gourmet game night menu

TNQ Restaurant reveal their gourmet game night menu

As the nights begin to draw in, the gourmet game night from TNQ Restaurant promises to keep out the chill with earthy red meats and plenty of rich red wine on Wednesday October 28.Join one ...

28 September 2015

it's ghoul of the month at The Beagle’s Day of the Deadfest

it's ghoul of the month at The Beagle’s Day of the Deadfest

IT’s a mite macabre how a bar can make two days of fatal distractions spread out over a whole month, but The Beagle in Chorlton is filling the whole of October with its special Day ...

28 September 2015 by Neil Sowerby

Mowgli and Banyan set to bolster the Corn Exchange food cornucopia

Mowgli and Banyan set to bolster the Corn Exchange food cornucopia

MANCHESTER’S Corn Exchange is starting to fill up with the imminent arrival of two interesting newcomers to the city. First up is Banyan Bar and Kitchen, which opens to the public on Friday, October 2. ...

28 September 2015 by Neil Sowerby

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