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Manchester Restaurant Week Begins Monday!

Click here to visit the Manchester Restaurant Week website. Online travel and leisure retailer lastminute.com is pleased to announce its popular Restaurant Week will take place not only in London but also in Manchester and ...

13 March 2009

Indulge yourself this Mothers Day!

Mother’s Day! The one day of the year when Mums are supposed to be able to take it easy, put their feet up and relax… However, that can be easier said than done, especially when ...

9 March 2009

A Little Piece of Green in Greater Manchester

With organic food stuffs being promoted to the max at the moment, and supermarkets being shunned for their unethical produce, it is refreshing to find a small co-operative grocery which operates amidst the urban scope ...

25 February 2009

A Little Piece of Green in Greater Manchester

With organic food stuffs being promoted to the max at the moment, and supermarkets being shunned for their unethical produce, it is refreshing to find a small co-operative grocery which operates amidst the urban scope ...

20 February 2009

Velvet Hotel - Opens 1st April

‘Fancy, very, very fancy!’ This is my response to the new, lusciously debauched venture undertaken by Velvet, a long standing member of the Manchester ‘Village’ community. On Wednesday night I was lucky enough to be ...

20 February 2009

Taste of Manchester Relaunching

Dear TOM reader, As you may have noticed, Taste of Manchester has been in hibernation over the winter, recovering from the Manchester Food and Drink Festival. However, we are now delighted to announce that we ...

9 February 2009

MFDF Reviewed....

So, it’s a week since Manchester Food and Drink Festival finally came to an end for another year; the awards have been presented and the Spinningfields Pavilion has disappeared. So what happened? Which events were ...

21 October 2008

MFDF Awards and Gala Dinner

Monday night saw the climax of Manchester Food and Drink Festival, with the annual Gala Dinner and Award ceremony, held this year at the Palace Hotel on Oxford Road. This was a glitzy affair with ...

16 October 2008

Record Breaker at MFDF

Cocktail guru and bar legend, Jamie Stephenson, shuck and stirred his way into the record books last night, creating a new world record by making 400 cocktails from the Diffords Guide (The Mixologist Bible) in ...

10 October 2008

MFDF 2008 Launched!

So, Thursday night saw the launch of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival down at Spinningfields Pavilion. There you can find the Taste Tipi, which has a lovely campfire inside, and lots of other tents ...

3 October 2008

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