THE Bundobust Christmas menu famously transforms the much-maligned sprout into a spicy festive centrepiece. This year, to help the homeless the Indian veggie/craft beer specialist have taken iton step further by putting their Sprout Bhaji ...
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Edinburgh Castle – gorgeous reborn Ancoats boozer that sets the bar high
HERE at ToM we love a dish with a good backstory. The name of what may become the Edinburgh Castle’s signature plateful is enticing enough: ‘Bees Wax Aged Beef with Onions Tomatoes, Bone Marrow and ...
BOOK NOW FOR A BISTROTHEQUE DINNER WITH JEREMY LEE
THERE'S a rare treat for lovers of classic French cuisine coming up at CULTUREPLEX in the London Warehouse. The restaurant there, Bistrotheque, is launching a new event series, ‘A Book From My Kitchen’ on Monday, ...
How Natural Wines came of age – Creameries, Erst, Fox, Wolf and Kwas
CHORLTON'S The Creameries has just hosted a ‘Low Intervention Wine Fair’. Even a couple of years ago such a commercially-savvy celebration of so-called (it’s hard to pin a definition) 'Natural Wine' would have been unlikely. ...
ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS MARKET FOR LOCAL TRADERS TO LAUNCH AT KAMPUS
YOU’VE got to hand it to GRUB. They must be reeling after their new street food fair base at the Red Bank Project was broken into but it’s business as usual there this weekend and ...
Superdude and The Prince of Quails – A First look at The Bull & Bear
A HEADLESS super hero and big screen darts under a domed ceiling of quasi-Vatican proportions. All that and a moilee sauced whole rotisserie quail stuffed with black pudding that might well be our stand-out dish ...
Cheers! Hawksmoor launches first new cocktail list since the Noughties
CHANGE at Hawksmoor is always carefully though out, so we don’t expect them to ditch the Porterhouses for plant-based alternatives any time soon. It came as a surprise to us, though, to discover they hadn’t ...
NORTHERN MONK LAUNCHES UK’S HIGHEST ALTITUDE BEER… FOR £1,000 A BOTTLE
AND there was you complaining about the price of a pint in your local. Northern Monk have just launched the UK’s most expensive bottle of beer, selling for £1,000 per 330ml bottle. There’s more to ...
SURPLUS! ‘waste food’ beer and street food collab to go weekly
IN APRIL food waste social enterprise Open Kitchen MCR joined forces with local independent brewer Beer Nouveau to create SURPLUS! an evening of beers and street food, all created from food that would otherwise go ...
Welcome to the Picturedrome – it looks a real cracker for Macc
AN away day down the Silk Road for the ToM team. No, we didn’t make it to Samarkand; Macclesfield had to do. Still it has it own exotic allure. One local told us he thought ...