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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

Marble Arch 125th Birthday Bash – Four Days Of Sheer Hoppiness

Marble Arch 125th Birthday Bash – Four Days Of Sheer Hoppiness

THE Marble Arch pub is celebrating its 125th anniversary with its own beer festival from Thursday-Sunday, August 1-4. There’ll be commemorative limited edition brews (including a 125 Stout), from its own Marble Brewery as well ...

26 July 2013

Rosy with cider in the Soup Kitchen

Rosy with cider in the Soup Kitchen

SPEAR Street, Northern Quarter is about as far away from a sunlit orchard as you can imagine, but Soup Kitchen is the apple of our eye this weekend (July 25-28). It’s hosting a Cider Festival ...

26 July 2013

US Craft Beer and Spats star at Stockport Market Hall Speakeasy

US Craft Beer and Spats star at Stockport Market Hall Speakeasy

THOSE dudes at the High Peak Beer Co are transforming Stockport’s Victorian Market Hall into a Speakeasy for one night only (Saturday, July 7), serving the best in American craft ale and cocktails, with music ...

26 July 2013

Indy Man Beer Con 2013 – what a crafty line-up for October

Indy Man Beer Con 2013 – what a crafty line-up for October

HERE’S the latest update from Manchester’s autumn craft beer extravaganza, Indy Man Beer Con 2013 – a four day celebration of beer with progressive brewing types from across the globe. IBMC have confirmed this impressive ...

22 July 2013

The Oast House Strives for a beer tasting world record 

The Oast House Strives for a beer tasting world record 

ALE fans ahoy! The Oast House in Spinningfields, hopes to sail into the Guinness Book of World Records on Wednesday, August 7 by hosting the largest beer tasting event EVER. To break the previous World ...

22 July 2013

Harvey Nichols Dig The City Dinner – with guest chefs Lisa Allen & Mary-Ellen McTague

Harvey Nichols Dig The City Dinner – with guest chefs Lisa Allen & Mary-Ellen McTague

TWO of Britain’s best female chefs team up to cook a special dinner for Dig The City, Manchester’s urban gardening festival (August 3-11). The venue is Harvey Nichols Second Floor Restaurant Mary-Ellen McTague, chef/proprietor at ...

22 July 2013

Laurence Tottingham launches his ‘Aumbry At Home’ service

Laurence Tottingham launches his ‘Aumbry At Home’ service

AUMBRY co-owner and head chef Laurence Tottingham has released details of his Aumbry At Home personal chef service. The Prestwich restaurant, run by Laurence and his wife Mary Ellen McTague, has won a raft of ...

10 July 2013

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