Manchester food and drink news this week includes new pop-up festive bar, Miracle on Edge Street in the home of Madlab, a burmese pop up menu at Beermoth, free tea at Leaf and a new restaurant by San Carlo at 47 King Street from Robert Owen Brown.

Christmas pop-up bar: Miracle on Edge Street from Pen & Pencil team
From the people behind the Northern Quarter’s Pen & Pencil, comes a two week Christmas pop-up bar, set to knock your festive socks off. Joyously named Miracle on Edge Street, it will take up residency opposite Common on – well – Edge Street where MadLab is, next to Terrace bar. Expect disco, Christmas hits, kitsch and sparkle, plus specially created themed drinks.
Thu 1 Dec – Fri 23 Dec, Miracle on Edge Street, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN, Wed-Sat only, 1-23 Dec, 4pm-late, www.twitter.com

Book tickets: Free tea tasting & 5-course pudding club at Leaf on Portland Street
The new café, restaurant and Liverpool import is settling into the neighbourhood and has some new events to invite you to. As the name alludes to, they love a cup of tea.
Free tea tasting: Thu 24 Nov, 6-7pm, FREE. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk
Pudding club ft. five homemade puddings, each with a matched tea: Tue 29 Nov, 6.30-9.30, £14.50. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk
Thu 24 – Tue 29 Nov, LEAF on Portland Street, 113-115 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6DW. Tel: 0161 883 1138, www.thisisleaf.co.uk

This Saturday: Burmese pop up menu at Beermoth
For one lunch and dinner only, a Burmese pop up is taking over the kitchens of Café Beermoth, just next to the Post Office off Market Street. Details of the menu are under wraps at the moment, but there will be a range of salads, noodle soups, meat and veggie dishes, with vegan options as well.
Sat 19 Nov, Café Beermoth, 40A Spring Gardens, Manchester, M2 1DA. Tel: 0161 835 2049, 2.30-7.30pm, www.facebook.com

Beer-matched supper club at Cheadle Hulme’s Fountain Road Bakery
A collaboration between Fountain Road Bakery and The Pursuit of Hoppiness, the evening will be set in the Cheadle Hulme-based bakery. The food menu begins with veggie or pork spring rolls with chicken satay, moving onto a Thai chicken or pumpkin curry with Asian slaw and rice, finishing with a chocolate truffle torte with stem ginger ice cream. Alongside the three courses, guests will sample six matched beers from local breweries, which will also be available to buy on the night.
Thu 24 Nov, Fountains Road Bakery & Café, 66 Fountains Road, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, SK8 7PY, 7-10pm, £35, www.eventbrite.com

Grub Food Fair at Alphabet Brewing Company ft. Yakumama & Nicely Kitchen
This week’s GRUB welcomes some hearty street food purveyors. The famous Honest Crust Wood Fired Pizza is joined by local comfort food heroes Mac Daddies, award-winning Latin American outfit Yakumama, wholesome coal-fired Persian Kitchen and Altrincham-based vegan bakery Nicely Kitchen. Oof, a stellar line-up to enjoy at Alphabet Brewery HQ, with beers to sample straight from the brewery taps. All under cover, it matters not what the weather is up to, plus there are DJs playing all day. Bring cash, hunger and thirst.
Sat 19 Nov, Alphabet Brewery Company, 99 North Western Street, Manchester, M12 6JL, noon-10pm, FREE, www.facebook.com

IN SHORT
From Wed 16 Nov, new local Pollen Bakery will be selling bread at Squid Ink restaurant in Ancoats, plus Manchester’s famous nose-to-tail meat loving chef, Robert Owen Brown is now resident at the former 47 King Street venue with his winter pop up restaurant, Feast. Read more here.

Tue 15 Nov - Tue 31 Jan
Words:
Kate Holmes
Published on:
Mon 5 Dec 2016