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Guerrilla Eats, B.Eat Street and now each Saturday Urban Food Fest – so much on our paper plate

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 ...

18 February 2015

Craft beers, cocktails and an industrial design – you guessed it, a new NQ bar

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 ...

12 February 2015

Lavish Tattu aims to make its mark on Manchester's luxury-led dining scene

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 ...

12 February 2015

Happy New Year- Kung Hei Fat Choi! Where to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Ram

Happy New Year- Kung Hei Fat Choi! Where to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Ram

FROM Thursday February 19 to Sunday the 22nd Manchester hosts the largest Chinese New Year celebration yet to welcome in the 'Year of the Ram'. With thousands of red lanterns decorating the city's shopping streets ...

11 February 2015

Get on track – Meatrolink charts the juicy cuts from the Fazenda barbecue

Get on track – Meatrolink charts the juicy cuts from the Fazenda barbecue

BRAZILIAN churrascaria’-style meat restaurant Fazenda is putting itself on the map thanks to some clever marketing spin – creating a spoof tram route plan highlighting its menu strengths. It's what PR companies get paid to ...

7 February 2015

Classic village pub Harewood Arms up for two top national awards

Classic village pub Harewood Arms up for two top national awards

THERE are two red letter days in the pipeline for the Harewood Arms, Broadbottom. The first is February 17 the CAMRA national Pub of the Year Award is announced; the second is March 3 when ...

7 February 2015

Viet Shack and Hungry Gecko headline Vermilion Restaurant Guest Nights

Viet Shack and Hungry Gecko headline Vermilion Restaurant Guest Nights

VERMILION, the glamorous Thai/ Indian restaurant in North East Manchester is launching a unique collaboration by hosting a series of one-off guest nights featuring the finest Asia street food and supper club operators around. First ...

6 February 2015

Tampopo Launch Charitable Partnership With The Mines Advisory Group

Tampopo Launch Charitable Partnership With The Mines Advisory Group

AMAZINGLY it is 17 years since Tampopo first opened in their canteenlike basement in St Ann’s Square. Co-owners Nick Jeffrey and David Fox based their restaurant approach on their own real-life travels in South East ...

6 February 2015

Welcome to Gotham City – Neil Sowerby's guide to some super powered spring openings

Welcome to Gotham City – Neil Sowerby's guide to some super powered spring openings

IT’S a helter skelter spring and summer ahead for city centre openings, so if my checklist below is incomplete forgive me – and please invite me! But let’s start with a farewell – to Village ...

4 February 2015

Living Ventures never sleeps - big changes at Artisan and The Alchemist

Living Ventures never sleeps - big changes at Artisan and The Alchemist

YOU’D think Tim Bacon would rest on his considerable laurels after a 2014 that saw him consolidate Living Ventures’ hold on the city centre eating and drinking scene with their opening of the new Gusto ...

4 February 2015

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