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Top 3: Chinese New Year including food market at Yang Sing

It's Chinese New Year on Sunday 2nd February, and as you'd expect Manchester's Chinese community are making a right meal of things. With food markets, banquets and much more, why not take this chance to ...

21 January 2014

Solita launches decadent US-inspired brunch menu

Solita launches decadent US-inspired brunch menu

Manchester bar and grill restaurant, SoLIta, has a new weekend brunch menu. Taking in influences from New York, Manchester and Italy, SoLIta on Turner Street in the Northern Quarter, is named after its historical location ...

21 January 2014

Fine dining on the cheap: Michael Caines at ABobe makes OFM's Top 10

Fine dining on the cheap: Michael Caines at ABobe makes OFM's Top 10

Michael Caines' restaurant at ABobe Manchester features in food critic Jay Rayner's top 10 'value' restaurants in the UK. In the Observer Food Monthly article, which also includes Michel Roux Jr's Le Gavroche and The ...

21 January 2014

Australasia's cool cousin, Grand Pacific, goes undercover

Australasia's cool cousin, Grand Pacific, goes undercover

by Neil Sowerby GRAND Pacific, despite the tropical cocktail oasis image, has not always been a balmy hideaway during these wintry months. That has all changed now with serious “weatherproofing” to snugly cover up the ...

21 January 2014

San Carlo Group opens San Carlo Fiorentina in Hale

San Carlo Group opens San Carlo Fiorentina in Hale

The hugely successful San Carlo Group of Italian restaurants is to further expand operations in the North West with a new branch set to open in Hale's Players restaurant. The family owned and operated group, ...

14 January 2014

Places to try this January: Superstore NQ restaurant + Serendipitea

Places to try this January: Superstore NQ restaurant + Serendipitea

January is usually a quiet month - but not this year. Instead, Manchester city centre and beyond is awash with recently opened places to eat and drink. We've mentioned Volta and the forthcoming Beef and ...

14 January 2014

The Crown to turn into Beef and Pudding dining pub

The Crown to turn into Beef and Pudding dining pub

Manchester's financial quarter looks set to have a new addition this Spring, with dining pub entrepreneurs David Mooney and Paul Newman lined up to relaunched The Crown. Menus are being developed right now, but with ...

14 January 2014

Closed pubs Mark Addy and Lass O'Gowrie set to reopen in February

Closed pubs Mark Addy and Lass O'Gowrie set to reopen in February

As we all expected, the acclaimed Mark Addy pub, with chef Robert Owen Brown at the helm closed shortly after Christmas. The reason being cited by the chef is huge repair bills for the increasingly ...

8 January 2014

Two new venues from Neighbourhood team in 2014

Two new venues from Neighbourhood team in 2014

The team behind Southern 11 and Neighbourhood have announced two new ventures on the horizon for 2014. Plans include opening a secret speakeasy in Spinningfields at the end of March plus a new American brasserie ...

8 January 2014

Manchester's top five Food and Drink offers this January

January is the month of food offers with 50 per cent off, 2-4-1 and all sorts of deals to explore. The offers are so good that we might just abandon December next year and have ...

8 January 2014

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