A pairing of Chicken and Crémant: Butter Bird, Manchester
Chicken is having a moment. I’m not sure the birds themselves would agree, but there are...
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Tag: Ancoats
Food Review: Canto, Ancoats, Manchester
As I write this, we’re about a fortnight away from six months into lockdown. I’m still not exactly sure of the rules as Matt Hancock and his cronies play hide-and-seek with our very own Andy Burnham and the North West has more...
Read MoreExhibition Review: 100 Years of Council Housing, Manchester Central Library
Manchester, a city which likes to tell itself it has always led the laggards elsewhere, was building municipal housing long before the introduction of the Addison Act in 1919. But this unfussy display in the archives section of...
Read MoreFood Review: Canto, Ancoats, Manchester
It was a disgustingly wet Friday 13th and the day after the General Election when I found Helen Nugent, Editor of Northern Soul, at the bar of Canto. There seemed to be a veil of tears over the city, a raging at the dying of the...
Read MoreFood Review: Erst, Ancoats, Manchester
There’s a buzz about eating out in Manchester city centre. It started long before Mana won a Michelin star earlier this month (the first star since 1974) and long after Oliver Peyton closed the short-lived Mash &...
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