IT’S getting a bit like Glastonbury – the ticket buying tension that surrounds Indy Man Beer Con, scheduled again for faraway October. At least we have a date to get on your marks for – ...
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Keystone Chase Kickstarter Cash And Launch May Festival In The Green Quarter
DOES Manchester need another mini-festival.? Definitely when it looks as promising as The Shebeen, set for the Green Quarter on Saturday, May 2. The festival will be a multi venue event with each unique location ...
Common to shut for major revamp, Beagle's all about a new menu
CHANGES underway at the Jonny Heyes co-owned Common and Beagle bars. The first, a Northern Quarter institution for over a decade, is shutting its doors this March for a major transformation/expansion, while its Chorlton sibling ...
Hawksmoor has landed – our verdict on how the 'ultimate steakhouse' is settling in
By Neil Sowerby THE smart money has been on Hawksmoor to redefine steak for Manchester. If that provokes a backlash against these London arrivistes then those who choose to snub their newly opened restaurant in ...
Saffron Room Opens In Choice's Old Berth At Castle Quay
UPMARKET Indian Saffron Room is hoping to transfer some of the glamour associated with its Prestbury restaurant, a Cheshire Set favourite, to its new city centre branch in the former Choice premises at Castle Quay. ...
SEASON’S EATINGS Stages its biggest Supper Club Yet at Kosmonaut
ON Wednesday, February 25, Season’s Eatings will be taking over the kitchen of Kosmonaut for its biggest pop-up Supper Club to date, serving up a four-course winter-inspired menu. Featuring an eclectic mix of dishes such ...
Kosmonaut takes off with its spirit-lifting experiments with barrel-aged cocktails
By Neil Sowerby BARREL aging cocktails is nothing new. Lots of pre-Prohibition mixed drinks got the oak treatment back in the day and in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in America ...
Guerrilla Eats, B.Eat Street and now each Saturday Urban Food Fest – so much on our paper plate
GUERRILLA EATS are back on Saturday, March 14, with a new venue on Shudehill and a promise of events even bigger and better than those that won them Best Street Food Collective in the 2014 ...
Craft beers, cocktails and an industrial design – you guessed it, a new NQ bar
PHEW, TOM was worried when we hadn’t heard a whisper of a new Northern Quarter bar opening in over a week. Fortunately, word dropped about Tarriff and Dale – a very New York sounding establishment ...
Lavish Tattu aims to make its mark on Manchester's luxury-led dining scene
MANCHESTER’S restaurant boom has taken another exotic turn with the social media teasing arrival of Tattu, a extravagant £2.5m project in – where else? – Spinningfields. They describe themselves as “a unique joint of Japanese ...