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Ibérica Restaurants brings the authentic tastes of Spain delivered to your door

Ibérica Restaurants brings the authentic tastes of Spain delivered to your door

The Spanish restaurant group, known for their celebration of the tradition of Andalusian cuisine and ingredients, will bring their restaurant classics, regional specialities, deli items and larder essentials to the popular delivery platforms to be ...

30 April 2020

Manchester Food and Drink Festival launches virtual food festival

Manchester Food and Drink Festival launches virtual food festival

The Manchester Food and Drink Festival is giving over all of their online platforms to create a portal to promote the local hospitality industry during the COVID-19 crisis. The MFDF website and social media channels, ...

16 April 2020

Manchester Gin Distillery Turns Production to Sanitiser to Support Frontline Services

Manchester Gin Distillery Turns Production to Sanitiser to Support Frontline Services

Manchester Gin’s distillery, The Spirit of Manchester, has turned production over from gin to hand sanitiser to support the NHS Nightingale Hospital North West. Manchester Central Convention Centre, situated above the railway arch distillery, has ...

16 April 2020

Seven Brothers invites drinkers to send 'good vibes' in lockdown

Seven Brothers invites drinkers to send 'good vibes' in lockdown

Family brewery SEVEN BRO7HERS has launched a brand new, spirit-lifting hoppy ale – giving drinkers the option to send ‘Good Vibes’ to friends via mail order.The limited-edition beer ‘Good Vibes’ is available in single can ...

16 April 2020

To all our food and drink industry family from MFDF… we're here to help

To all our food and drink industry family from MFDF… we're here to help

We know that these extremely uncertain times are hitting you all very hard, but we're stronger together and we'll do everything we can to help at a time of such devastation. Remember you can’t do ...

18 March 2020

Buy a voucher campaign launched to aid city hospitality trade in crisis

Buy a voucher campaign launched to aid city hospitality trade in crisis

IT’S easy to buy into a doomsday scenario as the lights go out on restaurants and bars across Manchester in the face of the escalating Covid-19 pandemic but now hospitality leaders are battling back to ...

18 March 2020

Hawksmoor shuts its doors to sit out pandemic … and others follow

Hawksmoor shuts its doors to sit out pandemic … and others follow

NOW this is a high-profile commercial casualty of the escalating Coronavirus pandemic – all branches of Hawksmoor are to shut their doors with immediate effect. City restaurants quickly following suit have included Erst, 20 Stories ...

17 March 2020

Support Open Kitchen MCR in providing meals for self-isolators

Support Open Kitchen MCR in providing meals for self-isolators

OPEN Kitchen MCR, campaigners against food going to waste, are stepping into the front line to help folk who are going to struggle to keep themselves fed during the coronavirus social distancing protocols. Formerly Real ...

17 March 2020 by Neil Sowerby

Going the whole Hogg at The Butcher’s Quarter – it’s deli heaven

Going the whole Hogg at The Butcher’s Quarter – it’s deli heaven

HOGG and Cockshoot. Being sticklers for tradition, that’s what we’d rename The Butcher’s Quarter, that unlikely outpost of proper butchery in a Northern Quarter bedevilled with seitan and other vegan practices. It’s under new ownership ...

17 March 2020 by Neil Sowerby

First look at The Spärrows – the New Church of Spätzle

First look at The Spärrows – the New Church of Spätzle

IN the shadow of pandemic and panic it’s a brave time to be opening a restaurant. In the case of The Spärrows reopening… almost three months later than they had expected. Such is the reverence ...

16 March 2020 by Neil Sowerby

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