After almost two years in the making, Hickory’s Smokehouse has finally opened its new restaurant in Wilmslow.The venue is the latest addition to the group who opened their first BBQ restaurant in Chester in 2010. ...
Reviews
REVIEW: OPEN KITCHEN MCR AT THE PEOPLE’S PUMPHOUSE MUSEUM
The pandemic has exacerbated many existing food issues such as food poverty, sustainability, and waste. If we have people going hungry at one end and perfectly good food being thrown away at the other, the ...
FIVE REASONS TO VISIT: SHORYU RAMEN, PICCADILLY GARDENS, MANCHESTER
Shoryu Ramen’s owner Tak Tokumine is a native of Fukuoka city which lies on the southern island of Kyushu in Japan. Tak moved to the UK in 1976 and opened Japan Centre, the popular Japanese ...
Why a Northcote Autumn Gourmet Box will lift those lockdown blues
THROUGHOUT the first national lockdown I resisted the lure of home menu kits from top restaurants. I was too happy in my own kitchen exploring how to enhance (the jury’s out on the sous vide ...
Review: Hawksmoor Classics
FIVE years have flown by since a ToM expeditionary force returned from London after experiencing three different Hawksmoor venues and meeting co-founders Huw Gott and Will Beckett. Rarely have we been so enthusiastic about an ...
Review: Allotment Vegan Eatery
SO meat has taken back control after January 31 when Veganuary officially ended. Well, like that great political watershed things are never quite going to be the same again. Would that in the political climate ...
Review: Salvi's, Northern Quarter
LAST supper? Why, even a low-key Monday lunch can turn into a near religious experience given the right ingredients. The new Salvi’s in the Northern Quarter is on a corner site, big on windows, so ...
Review: Bombay Brew, Rochdale
AN esteemed food writer colleague, steeped in his native Rochdale, devoted much of his review of Bombay Brew to accounts of his Eighties high jinks there when the red brick edifice, historically the Wellington Inn, ...
Review: Erst, Ancoats
SPREAD the word – Michelin-starred Mana doesn’t have a monopoly on contemporary culinary wizardry in Ancoats. Yet inevitably it steals most of the thunder. Close neighbour Erst refuses to prioritise the fascinations of Patrick Withington’s ...
Review: Dishoom vegan menu
IT arrives as a separate A5 sheet, the Dishoom vegan menu. One side says ‘Breakfast’, the other ‘Lunch and Later’. The first offers scrambled tofu and soy keema as alternatives to egg and minced lamb ...