SWAN Street has always been Ugly Duckling Street, four lanes of fume-belching vehicles, making it a difficult dash cross from a Belgian beer in Bar Fringe to a gig at Band On The Wall. Then ...
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Bill's shifts across to Spinningfields with an opulent redesign
BILL’S on John Dalton is shutting its doors on Thursday, October 3, but fear not, devotees of this middle-of-the-rod restaurant/bar chain, this centre version will reopen in a stylish new space in Spinnngfields on Monday, ...
Up and running! Time to tuck into 2019 Manchester Food and Drink Festival
CATHEDRAL Gardens is buzzing – and we don’t mean with skateboarders. We suspect they’ll have to relocate to a new patch during the dozen dynamic days of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival (Sep 26-Oct ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 & ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 & ...