ALTRINCHAM Market’s latest plaudit is to be named as a finalist in BBC Radio 4’s Food and Farming Awards. In the Best Food Market category it’s up against St Dogmael’s Local Producers Market, Pembrokeshire and the Dean Forest Food Hub.
In the other seven categories HS Bourne Cheshire Cheese is nominated for Best Food Producer and Huddersfield’s Magic Rock brewery, a stalwart of IndyManBeerCon, features in the Best Drinks Producer category. Full list of finalists here.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Bristol on Thursday, April 28 and the finalist will feature in special editions of The Food Programme on May 1 and 2.
Altrincham Market, with its buzzing Market House, won Best Food and Drink Pop Up Event, Club or Project in the 2015 Manchester Food and Drink Awards. Now there is much speculation that masterminds Nick and Jenny Johnson might attempt a similar revitalisation for the derelict Mackie Mayor building on Swan Street in the Northern Quarter.