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Bunny throws a ‘one million wings’ party as Mojo host a chilli chicken challenge

Bunny throws a ‘one million wings’ party as Mojo host a chilli chicken challenge

WHAT is it about wings? Bunny Jackson’s on First Street is throwing a party to celebrate selling a million of them during its brief tenure on First Street. From 5pm on Friday, September 27, there ...

26 September 2019

Seriously meaty reasons to make the pilgrimage to The Bull’s Head Heyside

Seriously meaty reasons to make the pilgrimage to The Bull’s Head Heyside

LIFE’S rich tapestry. ToM is lucky to get invitations to all the right places. Sometimes this throws up the oddest of juxtapositions. Worlds apart sums up the Metrolink journey between a rooftop champagne launch of ...

26 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

First look at Franco Manca – pizza kings pledging to help those in need

First look at Franco Manca – pizza kings pledging to help those in need

SO Much about pizza chain Franco Manca is simply topping. On first encounter this newcomer to Manchester has this going for it – affordability, quality ingredients, a smart fit-out and a generous charity initiative. In ...

25 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Bombshell as acclaimed Umezushi announces it will close from October

Bombshell as acclaimed Umezushi announces it will close from October

WE are so looking forward to catching up with the team behind Umezushi at this year’s Manchester Food and Drink Awards (October 7). Once again the railway arch sushi masters are shortlisted for Premium & ...

25 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Mamucium Steak Tuesdays benefit from touch of Frost

Mamucium Steak Tuesdays benefit from  touch of Frost

MANCHESTER city centre has many steak options. You can pick from the grass-fed, dry-aged roster at Hawksmoor, go Scottish with Alston or Argentine with Gaucho with the promise of wet-aged Uruguayan beef on the way ...

24 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Let’s go klubbing in private with Prince Albert at the decadent Schloss

Let’s go klubbing in private with Prince Albert at the decadent Schloss

COME the autumn and Albert’s Schloss’s ‘Sally Bowles in her mother’s dressing up box’ tendency really takes flight. Deliciously, divinely decadent, darling, with just a dash of debauchery, eh? This year it manifests itself as ...

23 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Burger off, Big Manc! Folk Cafe Bar takes over Solita Prestwich site

Burger off, Big Manc! Folk Cafe Bar takes over Solita Prestwich site

PRESTWICH Folk? No, we don’t mean the denizens of this upwardly mobile North Manchester suburb. Folk is the second bar of that name from Justin Parkinson, whose empire also includes a brace of Wine & ...

23 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Camden Town Brewery ‘can swap’ in battle against food poverty

Camden Town Brewery ‘can swap’ in battle against food poverty

CAMDEN Town Brewery are official beer sponsors of the 2019 Manchester Food and Drink Festival, which kicks off this Thursday (September 26). You can taste their beer range at the Cathedral Gardens hub. The day ...

23 September 2019

Book now for a Cider Dinner at The Marble Arch – it’s the apple of our eye

Book now for a Cider Dinner at The Marble Arch – it’s the apple of our eye

AUTUMN seems just the right mellow season to get in a ferment about true, natural cider. The recent Manchester Cider Week showed the depth of enthusiasm around. Now hot on it heels comes a glorious-sounding ...

23 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Don’t miss the Montann English Wine Bar at Manchester Food and Drink Festival

Don’t miss the Montann English Wine Bar at Manchester Food and Drink Festival

ENGLISH wine is on a sensational upward curve after 2018 was hailed the ‘Vintage of the Century’, perfect conditions doubling the grape yield and creating unprecedented ripeness. Why, even Champagne houses are snapping up land ...

23 September 2019

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