TWO dishes sum up the refreshed restaurant regime at the River Restaurant (if you’ll pardon the alliteration). The first a Cornish crab starter dreamed up one dawn in new head chef Dave Ashton’s home kitchen, ...
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Mein Gott, Oktoberfest with all its oompah is now at Mayfield
STOPTOBER? No way when you could be squeezing into those leathery hosen for a spot of oompah at the Yards at Mayfield. Ja, Manchester Oktoberfest is back for its sixth year of filling us all ...
GRUB celebrate their fifth birthday – and MFD Awards success
SEEMS odd that the the Fairfield Social Club will be hosting the ‘Free From’ special dietary festival this weekend (October 18) while perennial winter resident GRUB is holding its Fifth Birthday Party elsewhere, over at ...
Book now for Free From Festival at Fairfield Social
THE Fairfield Street Social has hosted everything from weddings to wrestling. A first, though, is the upcoming Free From Festival on Saturday, October 19 – the UK’s first devoted to gluten, dairy and refined-sugar free ...
United sign up Michelin-starred Tom Kerridge (but don’t worry, Ole)
TOM Kerridge’s inexorable march on Manchester continues. Not content with preparing to open his Bull & Bear in the new Stock Exchange Hotel and bringing MFDF to a close with an accomplished Sunday roast pop-up, ...
Flying Horse gallops to double glory as Greater Manchester Pub of the Year
IT is the season for awards. Rochdale’s The Flying Horse, shortlisted for Pub/Beer Bar in the Manchester Food and Drink Awards (narrowly missing out to sandbar), has found consolation, romping away with the CAMRA Greater ...
It's Northern Eudaimonia – Aristotle meets Waffles in Ancoats
CHOP house, Happy Haddock, The French – there was time when eating out places made it clear over the door. Now, though, you might need a Greek or Sanskrit lexicon to decipher the brand. Kala ...
What a howler! Wilderness Bar + Kitchen renamed Wolf At The Door
THE Northern Quarter is going all feral. First The Quick Brown Fox, now The Wolf At The Door. That’s the new name for Wilderness Bar + Kitchen in Thomas Street. Talk about the Wilderness Years ...
Reindeer moss to yakitori eel – how Mana made it to a Michelin star
CONGRATULATIONS, Mana. The Michelin Curse on Manchester is exorcised. We’ve taken back control after the wilderness years. A star is burning bright in Ancoats, which only a few years ago barely registered an eating place, ...
Michelin star heaven for Mana and four MFDF Awards too!
IT’S the greatest Grand Slam in the history of the Manchester Food and Drink Awards (and this is the 22nd). Not only did Mana, open for less than a year in Ancoats, win Best Newcomer ...