It was only a matter of days ago when iconic Manchester bar and eatery Room closed its doors for business, bringing an end to one of the best, not to mention a unique experience, hosted in one of the grandest rooms to ever host any bar or restaurant in the city. Fear not though, as another local icon in Living Ventures has announced its has acquisition of the site to launch another guise of its Australasia Bar and Garden brand.
Australasia Bar and Garden offers a taste of Pan Asia via food and drinks inspired by its big brother; Australasia. The estimated launch date is Q4 2015, so is certain to be one of the highlights of Manchester's openings schedule in 2015.
Manchester’s ultimate luxury Italian, Rosso has been nominated in this year’s Eat Drink Sleep Awards. The opulent and star-studded restaurant on King Street has been shortlisted for Best Premium Dining.
As voted for by the public, the Eat Drink Sleep Awards recognise, commend and celebrate the very best restaurants, bars, hotels, pubs and venues within the city of Manchester. There are eight categories in total.
Customers can now vote for their favourite venues in the Eat Drink Sleep Awards. Voting closes at 5pm on the 6th February. The award winners will be announced at a dazzling Black Tie Gala Dinner at the Piccadilly Mercure Hotel at 7pm on Monday March 9th.
The Rosso team expressed their excitement over the nomination and are so grateful and thrilled to all of their customers who have nominated them and appreciate the experience Rosso Restaurant aims to provide.
To vote for Rosso in the Eat Drink Sleep Awards, click here.
This February Half Term, The Lowry Outlet, MediaCityUK will host three days of family friendly fun, with a distinctive farmyard feel at its Outlet shopping and leisure complex, starring none other than farm animal favourite, Peppa Pig.
To celebrate the launch of Peppa Pig’s latest blockbuster ‘Peppa Pig and the Golden Boots’, showing at the on-site VUE cinema, Peppa will be appearing in centre on 17th, 18th and 19th February, with the opportunity for children to meet and greet the most infamous Pig of our time.
What’s more, children are invited to help find the missing Splashtastic Wellies that have managed to disappear. The Wellies have left a muddy ‘trail’ at The Lowry Outlet and they must be found! There’ll be prizes for all children who successfully find all the Wellies in stores throughout the centre, as well as a chance to win a £50 voucher for Trespass.
In addition, there will be also be free, fun craft activity across the three days, and with a number of other new family-friendly movie releases including ‘Shaun the Sheep The Movie’ and Disney’s ‘Big Hero 6’ showing at VUE, you could certainly make a day of it!
As well as all of this, parents can also ‘hook’ themselves a treat from the Hook ‘a’ Duck game inside the centre, offering discounts and vouchers for participating retailers. The Lowry Outlet is the perfect place to make your money go further this February with stores offering savings of up to 70% off RRP, plus a selection of restaurants to choose from including Pizza Express, Café Rouge and Nando’s. There is a huge selection of fashion, gifts and homeware plus an on-site multi-screen Vue Cinema, a food court seating 400, and seven Plaza restaurants!
The Great British Food Festival is coming to a venue near you and they want the best local producers to join in!
The Organisers of the popular Great British Food Festivals are looking for the best of local and regional producers to join their events in 2015.
The events are held at stunning venues around the midlands and north, all in the grounds of historic houses like Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire and Harewood House in Yorkshire – They have events in Lancashire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Cumbria, Warwickshire and Cheshire.
The recipe for the festivals, well take over 80 top local producers, a big serving of stunning hot food, real ale and wine bars, add a dash of craft and gift stalls, lots of activities and rides for the kids, top chef demos from the likes of Great British Bake Off Stars and stir in a cake competition and the popular Men V’s Food, with lashings of excellent live music and mix together to make a lovely foodie family day out.
The Great British Food Festivals showcase the best in British food and drink, with over 70,000 people attending the events in 2014 the aim to raise the bar again with all the best local and award winning producers exhibiting.
The Great British Food Festival is back at Stonyhurst college, this year in the Easter School Holidays, starting at 10am on Friday 10th April and over the weekend up to 5pm on Sunday 12th April. For 2015 the food festival will also incorporate the popular Stonyhurst Spring Fair, so along with great foodie stalls, inside you will find lots of gift and household items.
The recipe for the weekend, well take over 80 top local producers, a big serving of stunning hot food, real ale and wine bars, add a dash of craft and gift stalls, lots of activities for the kids, top chef demos from the likes of Great British Bake Off finalist Luis Troyano and Master Chefs Luke Owen, stir in a cake competition and the popular Men V’s Food, with lashings of excellent live music and mix together to make a lovely foodie family day out.
The main chef demo area hosts great local and tv chefs, all demos are free (as part of your admission ticket) to enter so everyone can pick up top foodie tips. There are also regular Artisan Foodie talks and the popular Great British Cake off and Men V’s Food for you to get involved with! The Great British Food Festival has attracted lots of producers showcasing the best in local, seasonal and speciality food and drink. It’s a great opportunity to get a real taste of the best of Lancashire and Great British produce - sample, enjoy and buy. With Great Britain’s amazing mix of cultures and cuisines we thought it would be a shame to overlook some more exotic elements - so you can try Thai, Mexican, Asian as well as pulled pork, prime steak, and the best local burgers and sausages, for those with more traditional tastes! After you’ve done your foodie shopping, sit out enjoying tasty hot food, a refreshing drink (or two), with great live music in the stunning surroundings of Stonyhurst.
The perfect recipe for a fun, foodie day out for the whole family.
After months of speculation Mary-Ellen McTague has confirmed that Aumbry has closed for good. The Prestwich fine dining restaurant originally closed temporally last summer to undergo refurbishment will not be reopening due to no deal being reached over the lease renewal.
When the restaurant closed in the Summer Mary-Ellen opened pop up 4244 in the northern quarter which has been as expected a great success and adds to the excitement of the Aumbry teams new adventure which is expected to open in Spring 2015 in the City Centre although not called Aumbry.
It's Elvis's birthday on the 8th of January, so All Star are celebrating the only way they know how… peanut butter jelly style!
For the whole of January (once it’s gone, it’s gone forever!) they are offering a special HOUND DOG a 100% pork frank smothered with peanut butter, homemade grape jelly and topped with toasted peanuts. It's sweet, salty and totally unique — just like the King himself. Happy Birthday Elvis.
Spinningfields will soon see the launch of Tattu, a new concept bar and restaurant, which promises to be unique in its offering. Information is currently thin on the ground, but the corporate logo and name suggests some kind of Japanese connection. Information leading up to the Spring 2015 launch will be released as we get it. _ 30 Jan 2015
Popular celeb haunt Panacea is to close whilst a refurbishment is carried out. The refurb which comes 10 years on from the venue's launch, will take around 6 weeks. A closing party will take place on Feb 7th, ahead of the refurbishment commencing, in readiness of a Spring relaunch . _ 28 Jan 2015
Northern Quarter favourite, Teacup, is launching a new menu on Thursday January 29th, which will include a new cocktail selection, along with the inclusion of a number of small, tapas style dishes. The new menu will be available from Tuesday to Saturday, in the evening only. _ 27 Jan 2015
Upscale junk food purveyor Solita has released what it is calling the Manchester wheel; a burger containing 8000 calories, and is to serve 'up to 6 people'. The giant burger contains 1KG of beef, 12 cheese slices and 8 rashers of bacon, along with a litre of creamy sauce, all placed on a specially made seeded burger bun. The structure is available at both Solita branches and costs £50. _ 25 Jan 2015
Mary-Ellen McTague has announced her imminent return to Prestwich after earlier this month declaring that the award winning Aumbry Restaurant would not be reopening. The return will see Mary-Ellen offering high quality bistro style food from Friday 23rd January at local favourite cocktail bar Cuckoo. The move is currently on a 3 month basis, whilst a more permanent base is located for Mary-Ellen and her team. _ 21 Jan 2015
Hot on the heels of Iberica launching in Manchester, London steak restaurant Hawksmoor has confirmed it will be opening in The Courthouse Deansgate on Thursday March 5th. This will be Hawksmoor's first venture outside of London. Northern diners will be in their element at the new venue and can expect large portions of ‘proper’ food with classics such as Yorkshire pudding starters and steak mains, along with what Hawksmoor claim to be the finest roast beef. _ 19 Jan 2015
The lease on the site which was earmarked for Mr Pilling's Roast and Oyster Bar, on Deansgate just next to Spinningfields, has been put on the market ahead of the venture even launching. Steve Pilling of Damson fame, suggested this earlier in the week that the arrival of big hitting chain Hawksmoor, was an influence in this decision, since their target audience is very similar to the one pencilled in for Mr Pilling's. The annual lease is £130k, and the lease runs for 25 years. Based on the interest in the site before the arrival of Hawksmoor and the also neighbouring Homemade Burger Co, it seems inevitable that another tenant will snap up this lease pretty quickly. _ 16 Jan 2015
18 year old Shahida Shahid has tragically died on Monday 12th Jan after suffering what is suspected as an allergic reaction to a meal eat at the Great Northern Warehouse branch of Almost Famous on Friday 9th January. Greater Manchester Police and the Food Standards Agency are conducting a joint investigation, although any link to the allergy being exacerbated by food consumed in the restaurant, is currently unconfirmed. _ 14 Jan 2015
Days after the announcement of Aumbry closing and Solita planning to open their third restaurant this time in north Manchester it has been confirmed that Solita will be taking over the former Aumbry site along with The Bombay restaurant next door creating a 110 seat indoor dining area along with a 50 cover outdoor area for the warmer months. _ 13 Jan 2015
Around 10 fire engines were called to tackle a blaze in Alberts Square which is believed to have originated in the kitchens of Rajdoot Indian restaurant, which effected service other buildings including The State Bank of India and Tampopo Restaurant in Carlton House for the rest of the day. Rajdoot is closed until further notice, but the other tenants are now open for business again. _ 13 Jan 2015
It has been reported that KSL Capital Partners has put the 29 hotels under the Malmaison and Hotel Du Vin brands up for sale. KSL acquired the hotels in March 2013 after MWB Group went into administration. _ 13 Jan 2015
Without warning to customers or staff (it seems), Room Restaurant has closed down. The once popular restaurant and bar in the striking former reform club at the top of King Street closed for business on Monday 12 th January 2015, with staff only finding out when they turned up for work. Both the telephone lines and website have been disabled. The reasons for closure are unknown but over the past few months stalwart staff had left and it became apparent that money was not being spent on the venue. _ 13 Jan 2015
February in Manchester will see the opening of Filthy Cow. The Burger restaurant claims that it will satisfy diners ‘wildest meat fantasies’. Behind the ‘farmyard-industrial crossed with Soho neon’ is 23 year old Jordan Gallimore who hopes to change the face of Manchester dining. Filthy Cow opens on the 28th of February on Tib Street in the former Lounge 10 unit. _ 12 Jan 2015
London based casual Italian restaurant Vapiano has confirmed the opening of its first site outside of the Capital. Vapiano will be opening in the Corn Exchange once the redevelopment of the site is completed later this year. _ 12 Jan 2015
From Wednesday 04th March Manucnians will be able to savour the gastronomic delights and contemporary surroundings of Ibericia. The London based Tapas restaurant will be opening its first site outside of London in the former All Saints unit in Spinningfields, witth a menu that's guided by Spanish culinary heavyweight Nacho Manzano _ 12 Jan 2015
The team behind Didsbury’s Chalk Bar & Grill have submitted a planning application which if successful will see them take over 20-22 King Street. Further details of the venture are yet to be released. Could this be the start of the fabled reformation of King Street in to the restaurant district? _ 12 Jan 2015
The Great Northern Warehouse is set to become the permanent home of B.eat Street after the transformation of what is currently a disused space. The residency of B.eat Street is expected to be a great addition to the Great Northern Warehouse after the success of Friday Food Fights last year. _ 12 Jan 2015
Every Saturday night from the 28th February will see the Euro Car Park on Bridgewater Street turned into The Urban Food Fest Street Food Night Market from 5pm – Midnight. The weekly event will feature 15 weekly changing Food Trucks / Stalls serving gourmet street food, craft and premium alcohol along with entertainment. _ 12 Jan 2015
Indian Street Kitchen, Scene is set to open in the former Strasa unit in early 2015. This venue will become Spinnigfields' first Indian restaurant which will specialise in authentic Indian Street Food. _ 12 Jan 2015
