TICKETS for the first in Manchester Food and Drink Festival’s Hidden Banquet series is to go on sale at 9am. on Friday August 5. Just 220 diners will have the privilege of eating food by one of the UK’s finest chefs in an iconic setting hidden from the world for 30 years. So don’t hang around!
“Innovation by Aiden Byrne” is taking place at the rediscovered London Road Fire Station on Friday September 30. The Manchester House chef is keeping his seven-course menu bespoke menu under wraps until the event itself, but quality is guaranteed ... and a unique experience in the old engine room.
The Hidden Banquets series, programmed in partnership with developers Allied London, will allow festival-goers to explore some of the city’s secret, undiscovered and downright jaw dropping spaces, in association with the nation’s most talented and exciting chefs, all in the context of Manchester’s cultural identity and heritage.
Each banquet in the series will take in a different, remarkable location, feature a different exceptional chef, and will be themed around the most iconic aspects of Manchester’s heritage, identity and contribution to the world.
Aiden, of the acclaimed Manchester House, has created a very special menu for the occasion, all designed around the theme of ‘innovation’ – that special spirit that Manchester is famous for and which brought the world the first computer, the first inter-city railway link and… Factory Records.
A contribution from ticket sales will be given to The Christie and Manchester Children's Hospital in the name of Living Ventures visionary Tim Bacon who passed away in April.
There are 200 regular tickets for the 7-course banquet, priced at £125. A further 20 “Chefs Table” tickets will be available at £200.
Tickets are available via this link – and when they’re gone they’re gone!