Coronation Street’s Hayley Tamaddon braved the elementsto be the first to pledge support for a brand new event, making its international debut in Manchester this Spring.After nightfall, the 5km course will be transformed into an ...
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Friday Food Fights Are Back At The Great Northern With Some Tasty Newcomers
THE announcement of the next round of Friday Food Fights at the Great Northern came less than an hour after the FA Cup Fifth Round Draw – arousing considerably more excitement here at Taste of ...
Hawksmoor launches in March – Neil Sowerby’s Verdict On The Ultimate Steakhouse
LIKE the proverbial buses, you wait for one acclaimed London chain to set up in Manchester and two come along in two days. Hot on the heels of Iberica announcing they are launching in Spinningfields ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...