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 ...
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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, ...
Spring to it! Altrincham Market celebrates its foodie fame with a family-friendly festival
By Neil Sowerby THE final weekend in March marks the clocks going forward and what better way to welcome Spring than to treat yourself to the Alt. Festival of Food, which describes itself as ‘celebration ...
Brand new children’s festival coming to Tatton Park
Brand new to the festival scene for 2015, Geronimo has added CBeebies’ Cook and Line from Swashbuckle and Alex Winters as well as pre-school favourites Ben and Holly to its 2015 line up. Geronimo will ...
Aumbry's Mary-Ellen McTague To Launch New Fine Dining Restaurant on Roadhouse Site
WE all wondered where Mary-Ellen McTague would reincarnate her much-missed Aumbry in the city centre, but in our wildest dreams few of us would have anticipated it relocating to the rock-centric Roadhouse (see above). The ...
Northern Restaurant and Bar show honours the catering industry's big hitters
THE Northern Restaurant & Bar, the largest hospitality trade exhibition outside London, smashed all records this time with more than 7,000 industry professionals attending and spending big with the show’s 270 exhibitors, supplying everything from ...
Ply fires up its Neapolitan Disco Ball Oven In a New creative space for the Northern Quarter
PLY, Stevenson Square’s hotly anticipated new bar, restaurant and creative space, has fired up its mirror ball pizza oven and will open its doors this month with launch events planned for March 25, 26 and ...
Gin Festival With A Splash Of Something Extra at Victoria Baths
GIN shows no signs of trickling out of hipster fashion if a recent bar trawl is anything to go by, but the summit of botanical one-upmanship is certain to be this year’s Manchester Gin Festival. ...
In praise of acorn-fed ham – Iberica brings Spain’s finest to Spinningfields
By Neil Sowerby ONE of my favourite Spanish films of the Nineties – which just happened to mark the big screen debut of Penelope Cruz – was Jamón Jamón, which ends with a duel to ...