WHEN you’re ranked at No.7 in the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs list the temptation is to ‘gild the lily’ – over-garnish, over-complicate, over-price – which might well banish the likes of pies from the ...
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Book early for Summer Beer Thing at The Pilcrow
WE’VE previously described Summer Beer Thing at The Pilcrow as high summer in a glass, so the arrival of a book early alert has cast a warm glow over the ToM office as hail pelts ...
WTLGI's Sam Buckley to compete on Great British Menu
GREAT British Menu is back for its 15th series with a fascinating newcomer to the BBC2 cook-off competition’s North West heats – Sam Buckley of Stockport’s Where The Light Gets In. It kicks of on ...
Book now for Not Quite Light’s charity ‘dinner in the dark’ at Firefly
FOOD isn’t a focal point of Salford’s Not Quite Light Festival, a vibrant offshoot of photographer Simon Buckley’s pre-dawn adventures, capturing urban light and shade. But one of the stand-out events of this sophomore fest ...
Manchester's biggest sustainable market to be launched by Hatch
HATCH on Oxford Road, is hosting Manchester’s biggest sustainable shopping and lifestyle experience yet (Fri-Sun, March 27-29) – and part of the whole eco package is access to some great street food. The Green Living ...
Worth the Pennine trip! Five Manc foodie outposts just across the border
YORKSHIRE is another country, as they say. Whether it is God’s Own Country is as moot a point as the Almighty creating Manchester on the Seventh Day. Both examples of creative thinking. Still borders are ...
Epic odyssey in search of a kingfisher-inspired cocktail haunt
IN any alphabetical list of Manchester drinks projects Zymurgorium always clocks in last. The spirits specialist’s new bar also took a while to get to as the ToM team negotiated the hard-hat maze of the ...
"Trust The Chefs’ as Edinburgh Castle springs some menu surprises
A NEW monthly night is launching at Ancoats’ Edinburgh Castle, which involves a blind tasting menu based around locally foraged produce and exclusive trial dishes. ‘Trust the Chefs’ will launch on Tuesday, March 3 with ...
Happy fifth birthday to Hawksmoor ahead of a week of tasty celebrations
DOESN’T five years fly by? It’s not as if Manchester had been stranger to great plates of steak over the years but the arrival of Hawksmoor in 2015 did raise the carnivore bar rather high. ...
Book now for breast cancer charity dinner at Grand Pacific
GRAND Pacific is hosting a Tim Bacon Foundation (TBF) charity dinner dance to raise funds for Prevent Breast Cancer on Thursday, March 5, to coincide with International Women’s Day. The event at the opulent Spring ...