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Help The Homeless - By Eating Out

This year, during November and December diners visiting restaurants in Manchester will be asked to donate just £1 to their bill to go towards helping the homeless in the UK. Following the impressive £455,000 raised ...

2 November 2010

Beer of the week: Dogfish Head IPA

William France Dogfish Head brewers are the rock’n’roll stars of the American craft brewing scene. They are pretty mental when it comes to making beer and this marvelous example is a continually hopped beer created ...

2 November 2010

Ready, steady, roast with seasonal cooking classes

Over the last year, Cracking Good Food has been bringing together experienced cooks with local residents in a series of special cooking classes - and they’re here to help in the run up to Christmas ...

2 November 2010

Supermarket-free food shopping in Chorlton

Sarah-Clare Conlon does her shopping without visiting any supermarkets in Chorlton-cum-Hardy – and has a great time while she’s at it…Chorltonites are fiercely proud of their suburb’s high concentration of independent businesses, and, if there’s ...

26 October 2010

Supermarket-free shopping in Chorlton

Sarah-Clare Conlon does her shopping without visiting any supermarkets in Chorlton-cum-Hardy – and has a great time while she’s at it…Chorltonites are fiercely proud of their suburb’s high concentration of independent businesses, and, if there’s ...

26 October 2010

Aumbry lives up to Restaurant of the Year award

Neil Sowerby THE richly deserved elevation of Aumbry to Manchester’s Restaurant of the Year coincided with the birth of chef Mary Ellen McTague’s second child. Hectic times. Neil Sowerby checked out the bijou Prestwich restaurant ...

18 October 2010

MFDF Award Winners 2010

As ever, the competition was fierce but, following a glittering and delicious award ceremony which was broadcast live on BBC Radio Manchester (click here to listen again), Taste of Manchester is proud to announce the ...

14 October 2010

And the award for the best guide book goes to...

Neil Sowerby checks out the essential goodness of three chunky paperback guides to where to eat and drink in 2011. Odds are that, with times being hard, some entries may have closed before that year ...

11 October 2010

And the award for best guide book goes to....

Neil Sowerby checks out the essential goodness of three chunky paperback guides to where to eat and drink in 2011. Odds are that, with times being hard, some entries may have closed before that year ...

11 October 2010

Wine of the week: Ogio Primitivo

Eleanor Read Big Bold Reds. Sometimes nothing else will do. When that craving hits, the only thing to satisfy it is a mouthful of full bodied, spicy, richer than rich red and this Primitivo from ...

21 September 2010

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