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Circolo Popolare - the 'cool crowd' has landed in Manchester

4 days ago | manchestersfinest.com | Ben Arnold

Eating & Drinking | Restaurants Inside Big Mamma’s joyful mission to serve Italian food with soul... and and more than a bit of drama too... By Ben Arnold | 4 June 2025 Share this story About 15 years ago, Tigrane Seydoux and his friend Victor Lugger found themselves knocking on the door of Lorenzo Bagatto in San Daniele, Northern Italy, a town built on the fortunes of one product in particular. Prosciutto.
The library reborn: Stockroom is a cultural playground for all

2 weeks ago | manchestersfinest.com | Ben Arnold

Arts & Culture | Co-working Spaces | Leisure | Lifestyle | Living and Working Bold, bright and soon to be buzzing with life—Stockroom is reimagining what the modern library should be... By Ben Arnold | 23 May 2025 Share this story What was once a run-of-the-mill retail unit in Stockport’s Merseyway shopping centre – Top Shop, to be precise – is now alive with music, movement and murals. And, apparently, cocktails.
Hidden Gems: The restaurant in a prison where inmates cook & serve award-winning food

3 weeks ago | manchestersfinest.com | Steven Pankhurst

Eating & Drinking | Hidden Gems | Video We’re used to visiting restaurants in some unusual locations, but the grounds of HMP Styal has to be among the most unexpected.
Grime titans Footsie & Strategy drop joint album Theatre of Dreams - and launch it live at Ramona this week

1 month ago | manchestersfinest.com | Steven Pankhurst

Music The Newham Generals and Broke’n’£nglish legends unite for a collaborative grime album, with a free launch party at Ramona this Wednesday. By Steven Pankhurst | 6 May 2025 Share this story When two underground legends from opposite ends of the M6 come together on a record, it’s always worth paying attention.
Hidden Gems: One of the UK’s best Italian restaurants is on a Prestwich industrial estate - Manchester’s Finest

1 month ago | manchestersfinest.com

Lupo is a no-compromise Italian kitchen making some of the UK’s best pasta and pastries from an industrial estate in Prestwich.
Viagra Boys’ Sebastian Murphy on bog bodies, loose living and songwriting about sausages | mEats

1 month ago | manchestersfinest.com | Steven Pankhurst

mEats | Video We took Sebastian Murphy to Stow for a chat about pickled corpses, Iggy Pop energy, and why he’s always half-naked on stage. By Steven Pankhurst | 30 April 2025 Share this story There are few people you’d rather sit down for food and a laugh with than Sebastian Murphy – the lead singer of Sweden’s chaotic punk outfit Viagra Boys.
Northern Quarter kebab spot Bab opens new basement bar

2 months ago | manchestersfinest.com | Ben Arnold

Eating & Drinking | Restaurants | Street Food There's new babs and burgers too... By Ben Arnold | 2 April 2025 Share this story Bab, the elevated kebab joint in the Northern Quarter, has opened a new bar in its basement. Billed as a ‘dining space by day and party destination by night, expect a cosy and casual downstairs space with a welcoming Manc atmosphere’, say the place’s owners.
District chef Ben Humphreys to take on the kitchen at the Edinburgh Castle with new Thai BBQ

2 months ago | manchestersfinest.com | Ben Arnold

Manchester chef Ben Humphreys is all set to bring Bangkok-style dining to the Edinburgh Castle – taking on the kitchen with his wife Bo.Called Bangkok Diners Club, it will open up next week mixing the Thai flavours he championed at his previous project – the Michelin Guide-listed District on Oldham Street – with US BBQ methods. The menu will feature elements from both central Thailand and the Isan region in the north, where Bo is from, as well as throwing in an in-house smoker.
“I love hotpot… I’m a bit obsessed with it…” Chef Mary-Ellen McTague on opening her new restaurant Pip

2 months ago | manchestersfinest.com | Ben Arnold

“Food that has a bit of a story to it is far more interesting than food that doesn’t,” says Mary-Ellen McTague, the Bury-born former Great British Menu star, chef-patron of restaurants like Aumbry in Prestwich and The Creameries in Chorlton and alumnus of Heston Blumenthal’s three Michelin starred The Fat Duck. The food at Pip, her new place – on the ground floor of the newly-opened Treehouse Hotel Manchester – will have a story. Some of it might even be a story that goes back a bit.
A 'herd of life-size puppets', Edgar Davids and the Royal Ballet at MIF 2025

2 months ago | manchestersfinest.com | Ben Arnold

Arts & Culture | Festivals | Music The biennial arts festival returns in July... By Ben Arnold | 11 March 2025 Share this story The line-up for the 2025 Manchester International Festival has been unveiled, featuring giant puppets which will roam the region, an exhibition of football prowess and art from Juan Mata and Edgar Davids and the first ever collaboration between MIF and the Royal Ballet.