FOOD apart, there’s nothing Taste of Manchester likes better than a film about food. There’s a new one out, Sweet Bean, a life-affirming, feelgood affair about an old Japanese lady who rescues an ailing street food stand by filling its pancakes with her own secret formula bean paste. Well, maybe we’ll give that one a miss.
A much better prospect is the launch movie for a series of Cinefeasts at Cork and Bull, Old Granada Studios – Chef, directed by and starring Jon Favreau, which is playing the pop-up cinema at 7pm on Friday, August 26. It’s a life-affirming feelgood affair (sic) as the titular fine dining hero attempts to rediscover his love of cooking by serving Cubano sandwiches from a truck during a road trip across America.
Appropriately at the screening you get served food inspired by the film – either a three course ‘street truck’ menu or a seven-course ‘El Jefe’ menu (yes, it’s the name of the dilapidated truck).
Cooking your food will be Bangers and Bacon duo James Taylor and Richard Brown, who have just won the the yearlong competition to clinch a full-time unit at The Kitchens on Spinningfields Left Bank.
While their new venture BEASTro takes shape over the next six weeks they are engaged in a variety of such pop-up projects.
Tickets are available from the Kitchens, the new temporary social club-meets-sports bar Cork and Bull or via eventbrite (with booking fee £16.22-£47.48).