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CORN EXCHANGE TO BECOME ALL FOOD... BUT FIRST A POP-UP DRINKS FEST

CORN EXCHANGE TO BECOME ALL FOOD... BUT FIRST A POP-UP DRINKS FEST

CORN Exchange Manchester will be transformed into one of the UK’s biggest and best dining destinations according to new plans revealed by the buildings owner’s, Aviva Investors. With a £15m planned investment the historic Grade ...

14 August 2013

Manchester Food and Drink Festival 2013 To take place Sept 26-Oct 7

Manchester Food and Drink Festival 2013 To take place Sept 26-Oct 7

MANCHESTER Food and Drink Festival has announced plans for its 16th annual Festival which will take over Albert Square and a variety of city centre venues for 12 days from the September 26-October 7, 2013. ...

14 August 2013

Gullivers travels across Oldham St for The Castle's takeover team

Gullivers travels across Oldham St for The Castle's takeover team

STRUGGLING Gullivers on Oldham Street has been snapped up by the folk across the road at The Castle – Jonny Booth and business partner Rupert Hill, once of Coronation Street. The boys are proving quite ...

13 August 2013

Great British Bakers, Caines, Zilli and Martin at Bolton Foodfest

Great British Bakers, Caines, Zilli and Martin at Bolton Foodfest

BOLTON’S annual Food and Drink Festival returns for the August Bank Holiday Weekend (August 23-26), with a surprisingly starry line-up of celebrity chefs. Baking being the new Rock bun and sausage Roll, it’s not surprising ...

12 August 2013

PING PONG CHA: City’s First table tennis Residency at the Yang Sing

PING PONG CHA: City’s First table tennis Residency at the Yang Sing

DIM sum, beer and PING PONG at the Yang Sing? Manchester’s best Chinese restaurant is used to bouncing back (from devastating fires and critics’ brickbats), but the presence of table tennis tables on two floors ...

8 August 2013

Oast House's world shattering beer event enters Guinness Book of Records

Oast House's world shattering beer event enters Guinness Book of Records

THE Oast House in Spinningfields has broken the World Record for the largest ever beer tasting event. On a perfect summer’s evening, 322 ale lovers convened in the Courtyard outside The Oast House – travelling ...

8 August 2013

Top Wine honour for Albert Square Chop House – plus a chocolate do

Top Wine honour for Albert Square Chop House – plus a chocolate do

THE influential American magazine Wine Spectator has given Manchester’s Albert Square Chop House an Award of Excellence – an astounding achievement for a restaurant within a year of its opening. Only 21 other establishments in ...

6 August 2013

Super chef Rogan stars in Manchester's Urban Gardening Extravaganza

Super chef Rogan stars in Manchester's Urban Gardening Extravaganza

DIG the City, Manchester’s urban gardening festival (August 3-11) has a strong grow your own food element and it has secured a real coup by signing up the city’s most talked abput chef in years. ...

6 August 2013

NQ Hive of activity officially launches with music, wine, ale, and, naturally, pies

NQ Hive of activity officially launches with music, wine, ale, and, naturally, pies

BAKERIE won newcomer of the year in the 2013 Manchester Food and Drink Awards and it has certainly not been resting on its laurels since then, expending from its Lever Street across the way into ...

2 August 2013

Family-friendly foodie fun at the Manchester Picnic in Piccadilly Gardens

Family-friendly foodie fun at the Manchester Picnic in Piccadilly Gardens

THE Manchester Picnic’s back, bringing the top of the pop-ups to Piccadilly Gardens for a weekend of troughing out (Friday August 2-Sunday August 4). Last year’s family-friendly foodie festival attracted 25,000 folk, establishing it as ...

29 July 2013

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