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Cheers! The Travelling Band Join Whisky Sessions line-up

Cheers! The Travelling Band Join Whisky Sessions line-up

The amazing new winter festival fro Manchester– over two days 24 bands, incuding I Am Kloot, Gomez, British Sea Power, Turin Brakes, Tim Burgess, Badly Drawn Boy plus world class whiskies in The Victoria Warehouse, ...

11 October 2014

A Swift Look at the revamped Gullivers

A Swift Look at the revamped Gullivers

By Neil Sowerby WHY take over an ailing pub straight across the road from your own successful one? It was a puzzle when Jonnie Booth and actor pal Rupert Hill (ex-Corrie, more recently baring all ...

11 October 2014

FoodFightMcr – back for 10 weeks of street bites at the Great Northern

FoodFightMcr – back for 10 weeks of street bites at the Great Northern

VIET Shack, Best Casual Eats victors at the Manchester Food and Drink Awards 2014, are joining forces with B.Eat Street, who won in the Best Food and Drink Pop-Up category for the latest sequence of ...

8 October 2014

It’s Hoptober At Gorilla’s Oktoberfest Beer Festival

It’s Hoptober At Gorilla’s Oktoberfest Beer Festival

THERE’S no need to schlepp over to Munich to clink steins and get dizzier by the litreful. Our own Gorilla bar is holding an Oktoberfest, this Friday (Oct 10). The club will be set up ...

8 October 2014

Crafty Pig To Give Added Oink To Oldham Street

Crafty Pig To Give Added Oink To Oldham Street

IT’s always good to see a suburban success story translated to the city centre. Prohibitive rents are often the sticking point, but the more affordable Northern Quarter always seems to have space for one more ...

7 October 2014

Welcome to the hop! Countdown to the amazing IndyManBeerCon

Welcome to the hop! Countdown to the amazing IndyManBeerCon

By Neil Sowerby TIME is running out if you want to squeeze into the IndyManBeerCon. The previous two years of Manchester’s groundbreaking craft beer extravaganza have been sell-outs and organisers tell us there are just ...

4 October 2014

Nibble Your way round Harvey Nichols at the Taste On Two Food Festival

Nibble Your way round Harvey Nichols at the Taste On Two Food Festival

THE Manchester Food and Drink Festival is a hard act to follow, but the public’s appetite for foodie events seems insatiable. Step forward Taste on Two Food Festival at Harvey Nichols on Monday, October 6. ...

2 October 2014

Kitchen Of Dreams? Gary Neville Finds It Tough tackling MFDF Cook-off

Kitchen Of Dreams? Gary Neville Finds It Tough tackling MFDF Cook-off

UNITED legend Gary Neville swapped the punditry for pans at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival to showcase some of the dishes on offer at his new Hotel Football, which opens on December 8. Gary ...

30 September 2014

Tim and Aiden rule at Manchester Food And Drink Awards

Tim and Aiden rule at Manchester Food And Drink Awards

LIVING Ventures boss Tim Bacon and his flagship chef Aiden Byrne, enjoyed a night of unprecedented triumph at the Manchester Food and Drink Awards. Tim scooped a Lifetime Achievement for his contribution to the Manchester ...

30 September 2014

Pita Pit – healthy spot where veggies aren’t second class citizens

Pita Pit – healthy spot where veggies aren’t second class citizens

IN a world of fast food that can pile on the hidden, unhealthy extras it is refreshing to tap into an international chain whose motto is ‘Fresh Thinking and Healthy Eating'.Welcome to Pita Pit in ...

29 September 2014

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