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MFDF in Cathedral Gardens – our comprehensive guide to the Hub’s first week

MFDF in Cathedral Gardens – our comprehensive guide to the Hub’s first week

MANCHESTER Food and Drink Festival is back from Thursday September 26 and a big thing to remember is its beating heart has swapped to a new location – leafy Cathedral Gardens between historic Chetham’s School ...

20 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Five MFDF musts – Bistrotheque, Shaun Ryder’s Vegan Happy Sunday and quality booze tastings

Five MFDF musts – Bistrotheque, Shaun Ryder’s Vegan Happy Sunday and quality booze tastings

THE 22nd Manchester Food and Drink Festival kicks off on Thursday, September 26. Ahead 10 days of exploring the city’s culinary riches, culminating in the coveted Food and Drink Awards in Monday, October 7 (still ...

19 September 2019

Crying into our beer glass as the current Pilcrow Pub looks doomed

Crying into our beer glass as the current Pilcrow Pub looks doomed

THE future of handmade timber-framed pub The Pilcrow is shrouded in uncertainty. This mecca for craft beer aficonados in Sadler’s yard will not survive the redevelopment and expansion of the Old Bank building behind it, ...

19 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

'New York' is latest themed tasting menu at Six By Nico

'New York' is latest themed tasting menu at Six By Nico

WHAT is it about New York’s grip on our cool going out expectations? Every other new bar seems to offer us a bite of the Big Apple. The latest addition to The Printworks spells out ...

17 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Peru Perdu – ceviche, pisco sours and an air of Andean mystery

Peru Perdu – ceviche, pisco sours and an air of Andean mystery

IT’S like searching for the Lost Civilisation of the Incas. Our only clue to the location of Peru Perdu, due to open in October, is a Facebook message saying it’s “five minutes from Piccadilly, a ...

17 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Book now for Jackie Kearney and Bakeorama’s Vegan Soul Food

Book now for Jackie Kearney and Bakeorama’s Vegan Soul Food

DREAM team’s a bit of a cliche but a one-off pop-up collab between Jackie (Hungry Gecko) Kearney and Charlotte (Bakeorama) O’Toole does set the plant-based pulse (sic) racing. It’s called Vegan Soul Food and will ...

16 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Italian fresh-to-go specialists Wolf open in Spinningfields

Italian fresh-to-go specialists Wolf open in Spinningfields

RESTAURANT chain Wolf has opened a new outlet – its eighth – on The Avenue in Spinningfields after a successful Manchester debut in the Arndale Centre. Wolf’s speciality is providing Italian food for busy people ...

16 September 2019

Cottonopolis and Wilderness up for national avant garde drinks gongs

Cottonopolis and Wilderness up for national avant garde drinks gongs

IT’S a tough job but somebody has to do it. Judges from drinks trade bible Imbibe spent a long Soho afternoon trawling through 150 entries to find the finalists for 2019’s Drinks List of the ...

16 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Northcote names its Obsession line-up – and it's starrier than ever

Northcote names its Obsession line-up – and it's starrier than ever

expansive as the years go by? The latest Obsession (Friday 24 January to Sunday 9 February 2020) is the 20th and sees 24 chefs with 22 Michelin stars between them host dinners at the Michelin-starred ...

15 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

Feeling Bullish? What to expect at Tom Kerridge’s upcoming Bull & Bear

Feeling Bullish? What to expect at Tom Kerridge’s upcoming Bull & Bear

NOT every pub grub menu pays homage to one of our greatest chefs, steeped in his own French heritage, but accompanying Tom Kerridge to Manchester as he opens the Bull & Bear inside The Stock ...

15 September 2019 by Neil Sowerby

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