MOON Rise Run is a brand new night run and post-race festival arriving at Heaton Park on Saturday, April 18, combining a charity fun run with live music and refuelling opportunities. Think glowing, lantern-lit trees, ...
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Revitalised Manchester Food and Drink Festival set to reflect boom time in the city
THE city’s big food extravaganza of the year will take place from September 10-21. The 2015 Manchester Food and Drink Festival has been running an amazing 18 years and shows no signs of slowing down, ...
Tea Hive Alexandra Park Pop-up
Tea Hive are popping up in Alexandra Park for the Easter Holidays from Friday 3rd April until Sunday 19th April.Following on from three successful pop-up café’s over the last year, Tea Hive will be returning ...
Up for the Cup! Liverpool’s LEAF put the tea into CUBE
LEAF Bar and Tea Shop is opening a branch in the former CUBE Gallery,a converted Victorian warehouse, on Portland Street, this summer. Expect the same formula that has made the original a Liverpool institution – ...
TATTU, bar/eaterie inspired by body art, looks bound to make a spectacular mark
THE latest high profile opening in Spinningfields is Tattu Restaurant and Bar, which promises to add something refreshingly distinct to the burgeoning food and drink scene down there when it launches on Gartside Street on ...
Thai chain Busaba Eathai to move into the Printworks
WITH all eyes on the Corn Exchange’s summer opening as a “food mecca” with more chains on board than a convict hulk the unloved (by foodies) Printworks has put a shot across its bows. The ...
Pick of the Pizzas – Neil Sowerby helps himself to several slices of the action
PIZZA Wars? Is the burger about to take a back seat as the cheap eat of choice for the hipster clan? Big question. We only ask because we are loaded with dough our toppings seem ...
Big bouquet for BIstrovin, Spirited's First Floor Wine bar
THE wine bar has been making an encouraging comeback with the likes of Salut and Veeno in the city and Wine & Wallop and Cellar Key in the southern suburbs all attracting lovers of the ...
Urban Cookhouse opens on the new fusion frontier
By Neil Sowerby FUSION food is the loosest of culinary terms. For every cross-fertilisation that works there are many more accidents on a plate. And I’m wary of yet another place with a self-proclaimed New ...
Welcome to the hop-friendly Piccadilly Tap – hiding its barrels under a bushel!
STATION Approach. Ah yes, the old Elbow song – ‘I haven't been myself of late/I haven't slept for several days/ But coming home I feel like I/Designed these buildings I walk by.’ Did Guy Garvey, ...