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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chorlton’s The Creameries to shut – delivery service planned
IN a rapidly changing coronavirus climate the Prime Minister has urged us all to avoid social activity, including pubs, clubs, theatres, large gatherings. It has left the hospitality industry. already reeling, in state of terminal ...
Huge hospitality exhibition postponed as coronavirus crisis escalates
THE biggest regional hospitality trade show, Northern Restaurant and Bar, has been postponed on the eve of its two day occupancy of Manchester Central (March 17 and 18). NRB20 was due to welcome thousands of ...
It’s going to leave you reeling – our big Paddy’s Day round-up
IT was a toss-up between doing a Mother’s Day round-up or a St Patrick’s. In the end the latter won out because we couldn’t resist using this picture of two Irishmen of the old school ...
Manchester sheds weekend party image as ‘seven day socialising’ kicks in
MAYBE it’s just a reinvention of 24 Hour Party People for Millennials. Think ‘Seven Day Socialising Mancs’, That’s if you believe a new survey conveniently released to coincide with the annual Northern Restaurant and Bar ...