Monthly Archives: July 2009
Manchester Food and Drink Festival: Your votes needed
The annual awards scheme for Manchester’s top restaurants, bars and food retailers is well underway following the official launch and they’re looking for your votes. The full set of categories with the voting buttons are avilable here. There’s some of … Continue reading
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See a book? Pick it up and cook
It seems there’s something about social media and baking that goes together like, well, cup and cake. First some of us Social Media Cafe Manchester devotees were musing about donating everything from twiscuits and ning doughnuts to geekcups, to put … Continue reading
Filed under Small bites, Yorkshire
Ampleforth Abbey opens for tea
Fancy a slice of Father Rainer’s Apple Cake? Perhaps Father Hugh’s cheesecake with crumbled fudge and fresh vanilla pods is more to your taste? In a move which risks sounding like a sketch from Father Ted, the brotherhood of St … Continue reading
Chips adored at Manchester International Festival
Food earned its rightful place at the heart of the community when the procession by artist Jeremy Deller took to the streets today. A mobile version of Bury’s Valerie’s Cafe honoured the bacon roll but the star of the show … Continue reading
Filed under Fish and chips, News
Blackhouse Grill, Leeds
Faced with customers’ tightening their financial belts, it would seem there’s two ways a restaurant can go. Some come up with a gimmick – two for ones, all you eat, happy hours, even pay what you like while others get … Continue reading
Bloggers have chef James Martin licked at #LLF
If you could lick this TV chef, what do you think he would taste like? That was the question (from the intrepid Katie of LeedsGrub) which rounded off today’s “bloggers conference”, held to launch the Leeds Loves Food festival in … Continue reading
links for 2009-07-02
Edinburgh Foodies Festival 21-23 August 2009 – Cookery School Top chef, Nigel Brown, will be appearing in the Chef’s Theatre at Edinburgh Foodies Festival on Sunday 23rd August. Nigel has been touring the UK with Foodies Festivals entertaining audiences with … Continue reading
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#LLF Twitter food review competition
Visitors to this week’s Leeds Loves Food event are being invited to enter a food writing competition with a difference – the review is submitted by tweet. Organisers believe its the first Twitter competition of its kind and have set … Continue reading
links for 2009-07-01
Edinburgh Foodies Festival 21-23 August 2009 – Cookery School Top chef, Nigel Brown, will be appearing in the Chef’s Theatre at Edinburgh Foodies Festival on Sunday 23rd August. Nigel has been touring the UK with Foodies Festivals entertaining audiences with … Continue reading
Filed under Small bites
