HOW to feel your age. ToM editor Neil Sowerby has always prided himself that he lived in Berlin before David Bowie. OK, he didn’t get to hang out with Iggy Pop and take industrial quantities ...
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Spring awakening! Vibrant veg and a redfish with attitude at Iberica
LOOK at this sea monster on a plate. Our recent introduction to the new spring menu at Iberica was flagged up as championing verduras (veg) an essential component of rustic Asturian cuisine, which reaches its ...
The Tavern keeps the cabin fever going with fresh bites and cocktails
PROOF that a log cabin is not just for Christmas. It only seems like yesterday the timber-centric Tavern in Spinningfields featured in our Places to be Merry festive round-up. Now it’s gearing up for spring ...
Why we’re all getting horny about cheese this winter. Especially Six By Nico
IS there no end to the cheesiness of contemporary Manchester? At the cheese connoisseurs’ end of the market we’ve got leading UK expert Ned Palmer hosting a tasting at New Market Dairy, Altrincham, on Friday, ...
Runyon’s at the new Hotel Brooklyn – worth making a song and dance about?
HOW odd to discover Hotel Brooklyn’s digital assistant combines my name with the Guys and Dolls character Nicely Nicely Johnson. The one who who rattled out: ‘Sit down you’re rocking the boat’, the one who ...
Fresh canolo quest as William Sicilian Street Food takes over La Boca
IN a recent review of the new Northern Quarter Salvi’s, while relishing their cannoli, we had to declare the best we’d ever eaten had been in Sicily. That was at Il Consiglio di Sicilia in ...
Mr Cooper’s relaunches as Mount Street Dining Room & Bar
THE restaurant formerly known as Mr Cooper’s House & Garden at The Midland Hotel will relaunch this April with a new name, look (cgi image above) and offering – Mount Street Dining Room & Bar. ...
Cheese guru Ned hosts a tasting at Altrincham’s New Market Dairy
AMONG some culinary big hitters recommended in our pre-Christmas Cookbook faves of the year a delicious historical account of native cheeses stood out. Now Ned Palmer, author of ‘A Cheesemongers History to the British Isles’, ...
Book now for special Albert Adrià dinner at Tast Catala
IN a major coup for Tast Catala their own multi-starred exec chef Paco Perez will be hosting An Evening With Albert Adrià on Wednesday, March 18. Big brother Ferran Adrià, mastermind of molecular gastronomy, may ...
MANA’S SIMON MARTIN HEADS A STARRY CHEF LINE-UP AT NRB
SIMON Martin from Mana, Manchester’s first Michelin starred chef in a generation, leads the bill of top chefs demonstrating at the 20th edition of Northern Restaurant & Bar at Manchester Central March 17-18. One of ...