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Mary-Ellen McTague returns to Prestwich to host residency at Cuckoo

Mary-Ellen McTague returns to Prestwich to host residency at Cuckoo

AUMBRY’S Mary-Ellen McTague has announced her return to Prestwich to host a three-month residency at the popular neighbourhood bar, Cuckoo. Following the success of city centre pop-up restaurant, 4244 Edge Street, the multi-award winning chef ...

20 January 2015

Taste of art – Peter Booth back to head up catering at the revamped Whitworth

Taste of art – Peter Booth back to head up catering at the revamped Whitworth

IT’S a close run thing which big arts opening this spring is the most exciting – Home, and The Whitworth, the first a new build project, an amalgamation of Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre, the ...

19 January 2015

All the new brews – Big Preview of Manchester Beer And Cider Festival

All the new brews – Big Preview of Manchester Beer And Cider Festival

IT’S raining ale in Manchester at the start of 2015 with an unprecedented number of new breweries setting up, many of whose ales will be debuting at the hugely popular Manchester Beer and Cider Festival ...

16 January 2015

Spanish spectacular – Ibérica announce March 4 opening in Spinningfields

Spanish spectacular – Ibérica announce March 4 opening in Spinningfields

By Neil Sowerby IT”S not been unlike awaiting the Spanish Armada. El Gato Negro’s arrival is still a way over the horizon. The acclaimed tapas restaurant will only complete its voyage from Ripponden to the ...

16 January 2015

Pot Kettle Black – RL stars’ indie coffee haven boosts the Barton Arcade

Pot Kettle Black – RL stars’ indie coffee haven boosts the Barton Arcade

WE love the word banter in sport. It covers everything from gentle ribbing in the showers to full-on abuse at a team-mate’s metrosexual tendencies. So we’d like to have been a fly on the wall ...

16 January 2015

The French Introduces £50 Lunchtime Tasting Menu With Wine

The French Introduces £50 Lunchtime Tasting Menu With Wine

BARGAINS are always relative but top-end London restaurants seem to have offered better value with lunch deals than their Manchester equivalents. Now the city’s highest profile culinary destination (inexplicably lacking Michelin star recognition), Simon Rogan ...

14 January 2015

Requiem For Doomed Room And A Spate of New arrivals – Welcome to 2015

Requiem For Doomed Room And A Spate of New arrivals – Welcome to 2015

By Neil Sowerby THERE’S me mourning for the loss of my favourite London restaurant, Racine in Knightsbridge – Francophile chef Henry Harris has sold up because of a “changing demographic’ in the area – when ...

14 January 2015

Filthy Cow – Saucy New Burger Champion For Manchester

Filthy Cow – Saucy New Burger Champion For Manchester

JUST when you thought the Burger Boom might be sagging in its buns along comes a new wave. NQ dirty food dynamos Solita, not content with expanding into Didsbury now plan to add North Manchester ...

6 January 2015

Solita to open a Prestwich restaurant on the site of Aumbry

Solita to open a Prestwich restaurant on the site of Aumbry

NORTH Manchester residents will no longer have to travel into the Northern Quarter or out to Didsbury to get their fill of Big Manc burgers and Jaffa Cake ice cream cake – or current dessert ...

6 January 2015

The Taste of Sakana – Great Value Introduction To This Pan-Asian Jewel

The Taste of Sakana – Great Value Introduction To This Pan-Asian Jewel

SAKANA made a sensational arrival in Manchester city centre in the late autumn, adding huge shot of glamour to Peter Street. The huge steel maple tree artwork dominating the split-level premises is already the stuff ...

5 January 2015

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