Monthly Archives: November 2008
Do you expect fish in your fish pie?
If you’re looking at the economy products at your local supermarket as a way of cutting food bills, this report in today’s Sunday Times might change your mind. The report finds sausages with just 6 per cent pork and fish … Continue reading
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Restaurant at 54 @ Glossop
There’s nothing fancy about it, just well cooked meat, the sort of chips you want to eat every last one and a buttery mushroom. There’s no silly garnish, no “jus” or “drizzle” – it’s just straightforward food cooked with attention to detail.
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40% off wine voucher clearing Thresher shelves
Popping to my local off licence to buy some wine for tonight’s dinner I found the shelves being stripped bare and queues forming towards the door. Yes, there’s an offer going on. With the online voucher you can print off … Continue reading
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Food and farming awards: Success for Bury and Unicorn
Two Greater Manchester foodie institutions have been acknowledged in the national BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards this year. Those leaders in organic produce, Chorlton’s Unicorn Grocery were named joint winners in the Best Local Food Retailer while the … Continue reading
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Region’s top foodies up for recognition
The BBC’s food and farming awards return to our airwaves at the end of this week. Radio 4’s annual awards ceremony has become a firm favourite in the foodie year for me and it’s great to see three Greater Manchester … Continue reading
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Welcome return of the Secret Lunch
It’s good to see fellow Manchester foodie blogger Secret Lunch back in business – and hungry for more. So where’s he been hiding? A recent post explains: ” It’s been over a year though I’ve not been missing out on … Continue reading
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@ City Cafe
Being rather more swanky than your average fish and chippery, this was a sit down and savour experience with a matching price tag.
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Friday Fun: Social site for tea drinkers
Does your office always argue over whose turn it is to make the tea? Then worry no more – a new social platform has launched to take the stress out of brew times. www.makethetea.com says it will make the decision … Continue reading
End in sight for Marmite recipe dispute?
Could it be that the great Marmite debate is about to be settled?
Regulars to this blog will know that the discussion about whether the tea-time favourite had changed its recipe has been rumbling on for almost two years now.
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Another independent cafe gone from the city
Sad to see that Zest in Piccadilly has shut its doors. An independent trader which prided itself on being Fairtrade, Zest was one of the few places that you could get a smoothie when I first started calling in seven years ago.
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