The Manchester Food and Drink Festival is giving over all of their online platforms to create a portal to promote the local hospitality industry during the COVID-19 crisis. The MFDF website and social media channels, ...
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Manchester Gin Distillery Turns Production to Sanitiser to Support Frontline Services
Manchester Gin’s distillery, The Spirit of Manchester, has turned production over from gin to hand sanitiser to support the NHS Nightingale Hospital North West. Manchester Central Convention Centre, situated above the railway arch distillery, has ...
Seven Brothers invites drinkers to send 'good vibes' in lockdown
Family brewery SEVEN BRO7HERS has launched a brand new, spirit-lifting hoppy ale – giving drinkers the option to send ‘Good Vibes’ to friends via mail order.The limited-edition beer ‘Good Vibes’ is available in single can ...
To all our food and drink industry family from MFDF… we're here to help
We know that these extremely uncertain times are hitting you all very hard, but we're stronger together and we'll do everything we can to help at a time of such devastation. Remember you can’t do ...
Buy a voucher campaign launched to aid city hospitality trade in crisis
IT’S easy to buy into a doomsday scenario as the lights go out on restaurants and bars across Manchester in the face of the escalating Covid-19 pandemic but now hospitality leaders are battling back to ...
Hawksmoor shuts its doors to sit out pandemic … and others follow
NOW this is a high-profile commercial casualty of the escalating Coronavirus pandemic – all branches of Hawksmoor are to shut their doors with immediate effect. City restaurants quickly following suit have included Erst, 20 Stories ...
Support Open Kitchen MCR in providing meals for self-isolators
OPEN Kitchen MCR, campaigners against food going to waste, are stepping into the front line to help folk who are going to struggle to keep themselves fed during the coronavirus social distancing protocols. Formerly Real ...
Going the whole Hogg at The Butcher’s Quarter – it’s deli heaven
HOGG and Cockshoot. Being sticklers for tradition, that’s what we’d rename The Butcher’s Quarter, that unlikely outpost of proper butchery in a Northern Quarter bedevilled with seitan and other vegan practices. It’s under new ownership ...
First look at The Spärrows – the New Church of Spätzle
IN the shadow of pandemic and panic it’s a brave time to be opening a restaurant. In the case of The Spärrows reopening… almost three months later than they had expected. Such is the reverence ...
Chorlton’s The Creameries to shut – delivery service planned
IN a rapidly changing coronavirus climate the Prime Minister has urged us all to avoid social activity, including pubs, clubs, theatres, large gatherings. It has left the hospitality industry. already reeling, in state of terminal ...