FORGET Friday Food Fights – this is real kitchen war. Ten food traders will do battle in a cook-off to win six micro-diner slots in B.EAT Street’s latest takeover of the Great Northern Warehouse.
The 10 competing for a three month rolling residency are: Bali Beach Hut, Dirty Food Revolution, Big Grille Style, Wong’s Happiness Diner/Mei Mei Street Cart, King of Brindiana, Manchester mini pancake makers Poffertjes Kings, Fabulous Burger Boys, Chickens Wit’ Attitude, Wings To Go and Cowboy Steak Out. A panel of food and drink experts will whittle them down to half a dozen.
The cook-off is a result of B.EAT Street being swamped with applications since they announced plans for the Warehouse, where their Friday Food Fights were such a phenomenal success.
For the next three years they are taking over five long-empty terraced units in the GNW alleyway parallel to Deansgate. Three are to be split into six diners, the other two becoming bars, The Crooked Claw and Beer'd, alongside a Caribbean jerk shack, Rock Lobster.
There are future plans to use outdoor space all the way down from the cinema entrance to the Hilton. B.EAT Street’s Lyndon Higginson promised “a crazy mashed-up food and drink street with themes, props, graffiti artists, heated undercover spaces and a large mezzanine deck – it's an outdoor indoor party,"
The private cook-off takes place at the Great Northern Warehouse on Friday, August 28 with the results announced soon after. Follow the latest via @beatstreetmcr.co.uk.
Higginson and co-organiser Chris Leigh, meanwhile, are starting the party rolling with an event called LetsGetBeerd on September 25 and 26 in the Warehouse. They promise beers from over 15 British breweries. street food, live music and DJs. Day sessions cost £8 a head and evenings £10 (both plus booking fee). All tickets include four half pints. Book via this link.