WE think it’s quite fitting that Basil Chambers should host the latest incarnation of our own champions of Southern Italian cuisine Salvi’s. You can almost scent the sweetest of herbs as you enter their newly ...
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A Merry Cheesemas from Mamucium – all three kilos of it melted
STAID with the Stilton, only choosy about Cheddar? A self-indulgent, artery-heartening, gout-inducing Christmas requires a more full-on cheesy statement. That’s where Mamucium comes in with their Cheesemas Feast. It’s already tempting the ToM team to ...
Exose from James Martin Manchester storms into Masterchef final 12
CONGRATULATIONS to Exose Lopo-Ndinga, a chef de partie at James Martin Manchester, for getting through to the final 12 in BBC’S Masterchef: The Professionals. In the Tuesday, November 26 heat his lemon and raspberry choice ...
Welcome to Big cheese part 2 at New Market Dairy, Altrincham
QUALITY cheese. Crumbs. It’s not as easy to find as you might think. Hence ToM’s enthusiasm for New Market Dairy, injecting Altrincham’s foodie scene with some serious curds. What’s more, they are not just selling ...
Ancoats Christmas made in the Med as Canto unveils its winter menu
ANCOATS tapas haven Canto has introduced a new Mediterranean-inspired winter menu with some old crowd pleasers back by popular demand for the festive season. Head chef Carlos Gomes is hoping your personal fave is in ...
BLVD pack a lot of meat into their Big Apple culinary vibe
LET’S admit it, we were never great fans of the ill-fated Neighbourhood bar and its Spinningfields replacement BLVD (Boulevard) Manchester does give off the same celeb haunt vibe. Still, now it’s officially launched, we do ...
Beardless Beer Week – celebrating women in brewing
IT’S long been a cliche, the symbiosis between craft beer and bearded blokes. Women’s role in brewing is so often discounted. Hence it tickles ToM that the female beery backlash between November 21 and December ...
Turkey Raan and a Taj Toddy sprinkle spice on Dishoom’s Christmas Menu
DISHOOM love the celebratory centrepiece nature of a Raan, The lamb version can be traced back to Alexander the Great’s battles in India. Come Christmas they adapt the formula – low-cooked leg shredded into a ...
HATCH HOSTS EVERGREEN: A FESTIVAL OF WINTER AND CHRISTMAS
WHAT a busy festive season it is already. Hot – or should that be blooming cold – on the heels of our round-up of all the jolly alternatives to the official Christmas Markets comes news ...
Ivy unveils Decadent Snowball Fight dessert and ‘poles apart’ Terraces
NO indication from the weather reports that we’d be encountering a ‘Snowball Fight’ this early before Christmas. Still as The Ivy heads for the holly the Spinningfields winter palace couldn’t resist adding a dessert of ...