WE wish more restaurants took food and beer matching seriously. That’s not the case at Hispi in Didsbury. Proof is an upcoming collab dinner with Manchester’ most acclaimed brewery, Cloudwater. The menu features six courses ...
News
Chefs Steve Smith and Victor Yu team up for exclusive collab dinner
IT’S all about Yu for one night only for award-winning chef Steven Smith. The chef patron of The Freemasons at Wiswell is joining exec chef Victor Yu in the kitchens of Yu Alderley Edge on ...
Massive three day gin festival at the Mayfield
GIN Fever. Is there no cure? Seems not as a three day festival with that name takes over Unit 8 of the Mayfield Depot. It will stock 100 varieties, offer G&Ts with every variety of ...
Book now for Bistrotheque Classique – fun-tastic MFDF banquet
THEY do dinners differently at Bistrotheque. So this newcomer’s contribution to the upcoming Manchester Food and Drink Festival comes complete with lashings of pizzazz. The MFDF Dining Dome in Cathedral Gardens is hosting the Bistrotheque ...
Wing Fest – it's time to unleash your inner chicken
IT claims to be the biggest celebration of chicken wings in Europe. Who are we to argue? Wing Fest is certainly attracting a committed crowd of street food traders, restaurants, barbecue teams and pop-ups from ...
New look River Restaurant and menu key part of Lowry Hotel’s luxurious overhaul
WELCOME back, the River Restaurant, we’ve missed you as a serious culinary contender in the city. We certainly hope that’s going to be the case as the dining room of the Lowry Hotel and the ...
It's a beer-fuelled adventure – Marble, Pomona Island and Seven Bro7hers
BAR crawls ought to be adventures, involve journeys. These days we take a stagger among the dark arches of the Piccadilly Beer Mile for granted. So what’s next? Well, grab yourself a Metrolink map, destination ...
C'mon feel the buzz as cider gets its seven days in the spotlight
WHAT a glorious image of freshly picked cider apples this is. It seems far removed from the urban hipness of Ancoats but it sums up a keynote event in the inaugural Manchester Cider Week (September ...
Look who's the latest star addition as MFDF 2019 confirm their full line-up
THE final line-up for the Manchester Food and Drink Festival (Sep 26-Oct 7) has been revealed. Featuring a fantastic array of talent from all aspects of the city’s wider food and drink industry, it’s set ...
Top Manchester restaurants join Action Again Hunger fund-raising campaign
RESTAURANTS across Manchester are joining Action Against Hunger’s Love Food Give Food campaign. The premise of the campaign is simple: restaurants add an optional £1 to the bill or donate a percentage of the proceeds ...