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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Clock in to Ziferblat – NQ's new pay by the minute hip hangout
THE Northern Quarter is not short of fine coffee shops – witness Bonbon, Fig & Sparrow, North Tea Power and TOM’s personal favourite, Takk, purveyors of Icelandic caffeine cool. Icelandic Coffee House Takk. Now they ...
Three award-winning chefs cook Banana Leaf charity Banquet at The Beagle
PUT Monday, March 2 down in your diary for the Banana Leaf Banquet charity dinner at The Beagle in Chorlton. TOM is planning to be there to taste a course each from three of the ...
Restaurant industry legend Nick Lander is star turn at Northern Restaurant Bar Debate
NICK Lander, the writer, consultant, restaurateur and author of The Art of the Restaurateur, has been announced as the headline speaker of the NRB Debate 2015. Taking place at the Northern Restaurant & Bar exhibition ...
Tim Bacon extends his empire by snapping up Room site to create a new Grand Pacific
LIVING Ventures have moved in to take over the glorious Reform Club space at the top of KIng Street that used to house Room – in its place will be a lavish new Grand Pacific ...
NQ’s Teacup brews up new small plate evening menu and extends opening hours
IT’S a hard act to follow. In the short time it was in temporary residency at the back of Teacup Mary-Ellen McTague’s pop-up 4244 garnered a ton of accolades. Now, with the ex-Aumbry chef’s return ...
Glam spice – Vermilion revamps its a la carte menu alongside its tempting tapas offering
GLAMOROUS Thai-and beyond restaurant Vermilion has extended its a la carte menu, while continuing to serve its innovative Tapas Menu, cut-down versions of its classic dishes. Among the fresh mains on the menu from head ...
Lively Levenshulme – Fred's Ale House and gallery opens, supper club treats at trove
THERE’S a lot to whet the appetite in Levenshulme, aside from its acclaimed Saturday market reopens on March 7. Fred's Ale House, Coffee Bar and Art Gallery launches on Friday, January 30, while the same ...