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Turtle Bay Commission Local Artist To Create Their Manchester Second Restaurant Artwork

Turtle Bay Commission Local Artist To Create Their Manchester Second Restaurant Artwork

Turtle Bay Manchester has been bringing rum, reggae, jerk and good times to the city since last May. Now, as their one-year Mancunian birthday approaches, they’re celebrating by launching a second restaurant.This time it’s the ...

21 April 2015

Biospheric Foundation launches MCR Massive Change project

Biospheric Foundation launches MCR Massive Change project

Vincent Walsh, startup entrepreneur, founder of the Biospheric Foundation and Co-Director of the Biospheric Studio is launching a new event series called MCR Massive Change. The Biospheric Foundation, established in Salford, is a state-of-the-art urban ...

14 April 2015

Au revoir to the legendary Market Restaurant – bonjour 63 Degrees

Au revoir to the legendary Market Restaurant – bonjour 63 Degrees

By Neil Sowerby A DECADE after winning Restaurant of the Year in the Manchester Food and Drink Awards the Market Restaurant, on the corner of HIgh Street and Edge Street, has shut. A sad day ...

11 April 2015

Dockyard lands in the increasingly shipshape Left Bank of Spinningfields

Dockyard lands in the increasingly shipshape Left Bank of Spinningfields

THE repopulation of Spinningfields Left Bank with credible food and drink venues continues apace with the opening of The Dockyard, little brother of the Media City original, which scooped Pub of the Year in the ...

11 April 2015

Art Deco Decadence rules the rooftops as the Hotel Gotham launches in some style

Art Deco Decadence rules the rooftops as the Hotel Gotham launches in some style

THE most dramatic hotel to arrive in Manchester for decades is up and running.The 60-room Hotel Gotham has opened its doors in the Edwin Lutyens-designed Grade II listed Midland Bank building at the top of ...

9 April 2015

Scene: Indian Street Kitchen and The Kitchens Kickstart Left Bank Revolution

Scene: Indian Street Kitchen and The Kitchens Kickstart Left Bank Revolution

SPRING and Spinningfield’s Left Bank is stirring back to life with some interesting food and drink openings. What was once a ‘death row’ of dull chain eateries overlooking the Irwell is now playing catch-up with ...

8 April 2015

Celebrate the Thai New Year at Vermilion with a Songkran banquet

Celebrate the Thai New Year at Vermilion with a Songkran banquet

THE Thai New Year starts on Monday, April 13 and lasts for three days. Back in Thailand the Songkran Festival celebrations are spectacular (see above). In Manchester, the next best thing is to book the ...

8 April 2015

Cloudwater Brewery Open Days – Give them a Swirl

Cloudwater Brewery Open Days – Give them a Swirl

CLOUDWATER is a lovely name for a brewery. All swirly. It is a translation of the Zen Buddhist term unsui, taken from a Chinese poem: “To drift like clouds and flow like water.” It gives ...

7 April 2015

Castlefield and Shebeen – more merry mini-festivals spring up

Castlefield and Shebeen – more merry mini-festivals spring up

YOU could sometimes feel each day brings a new festival. In food terms the Manchester Food and Drink Festival in September is still the year’s mega event, but if you need to whet your appetite ...

5 April 2015

Real HOME cooking – a missed opportunity in Manchester’s new arts complex?

Real HOME cooking – a missed opportunity in Manchester’s new arts complex?

By Neil Sowerby THERE were a few sore heads after the Cornerhouse’s closing bash, but the tears are drying and it’s time look forward to its replacement, HOME, which officially pens on May 21. Cinema, ...

5 April 2015

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