This week’s food and drink news includes The Real Junk Food Projects new cafe, full listings for the ever fabulous Indy Man Beer Con 2017, a beer festival in Lymm and a food festival in New Mills.
Open now: The Real Junk Food café on Oxford Street
Manchester food waste campaigners The Real Junk Food Project has opened the doors to their new café today. After working with local artists to create a beautifully cool interior, they’re inviting everyone to their new gaff to check it out. Opening this week Tue-Fri from 12-3pm, they repurpose locally sourced fresh food products that are destined for landfill to make a seasonal, sustainable, delicious menu. Head down for lunch this week and keep an eye on the Twitter feed to see when you can feed.
The Real Junk Food Café, 85 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6EQ, @realjunkfoodmcr
Indy Man Beer Con 2017 – full programme announced
There are still tickets available for the Thursday and Sunday sessions of Indy Man Beer Con, with the ticket price including entry to the Victoria Baths-based festival, IMBC 17 glass and programme. Held at the Grade II listed venue with Victorian swimming pool and Turkish baths, it’s a unique and iconic setting to work your way through the many beers on offer (you can find the daily beer selection here). With talks, tastings and pop-ups to participate in throughout the festival, there is also plenty of food on offer. An annual stalwart in the calendar of beer, bag your tickets via the link below.
Thu 28 Sep-Sun 1 Oct, Indy Man Beer Con, Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Chorlton, Manchester, M13 0FE, various times, £8.50 for the two remaining sessions or £50 for the full four days, www.indymanbeercon.co.uk
This weekend: Lymm Beer Festival
If you feel like a trip out of the city this weekend, the seventh annual beer festival is taking place in the Cheshire village of Lymm. Alongside 35 real ales, ciders and perries, there is also a selection of gins at the President’s Gin Palace (we can confirm that Trump will not be there!). There will be live music throughout proceedings, food on hand with all profits going to local charities, and free soft drinks for designated drivers.
Fri 8 Sep, 6-11pm and Sat 9 Sep, 12-11pm, £5 entry with glass and £5 for four tickets or four half pints, Lymm Village Hall, Pepper Street, Lymm, WA13 0JB, www.lymmbeerfest.co.uk
This Sunday: New Mills Food Festival
A 29 minute train journey from Manchester this Sunday could see you chowing down on the delights of an artisan food fair in Derbyshire. Held at New Mills venue Spring Bank Arts, The Butterfly House at The Torrs will be offering veggie and meat pies with Persian salads, breakfast and brunch from The Pulled Swine, bao and more from Dim Sum SU, local beer from Rock Mill Brewery and local coffee from Peak Bean. Head out to the hills for some fresh air and lunch.
Sun 10 Sep, Spring Bank Arts Centre, New Mills, Derbyshire, SK22 4BH, 11am-4pm, www.facebook.com
Next Tuesday: Umezushi sake tasting
The sushi jewel of Manchester is hosting a sake tasting evening and you’re invited. Showcasing the whole portfolio of sake and shochu, it will include new additions as well as old favourites. There will be canapes served, and as it is an intimate setting best book your tickets now.
Tue 12 Sep, Umezushi, Unit 4, Mirabel Street, Manchester, M3 1PJ, 6-10pm, buy tickets through the link on here: www.facebook.com
A Song Smelling of Oysters: immersive meal inspired by Anthony Burgess at the Whitworth
Anthony Burgess once said, “Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.” Absolutely. In the Venn diagram sliver to combine a cool experience and food, The Whitworth is joining forces with Laura Mansfield from Feast journal and The Modern Caterer to host an evening of food and performance, to celebrate the novelist’s work. The three-course menu and aperitif have ingeniously been created using recipes found within Burgess’s fiction, and the courses will include interventions in response to his work. Tickets for this creative supper club are on sale now, with the event signalling the beginning of an exhibition of artists’ writings in response to Burgess’s repeated use of a Lancashire Hot Pot recipe in eight pieces of his work. Read our preview.
Thu 14 Sep, The Whitworth Café, Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER, 7-9pm, £35 (£55 with wine pairing), www.eventbrite.co.uk
Make new friends: Ladies That Beer social dining club at The Marble Arch
Doing-what-they-say-on-their-tin Ladies That Beer is collaborating with The Marble Arch for a beer and food matching Sunday lunch. Over five courses, their traditional pub grub will be served alongside the new Autumn Marble Brewery beers. Ladies That Beer is an open social group and meets predominantly in the North West. Head down to join the gang if you fit the brief.
Sun 10 Sep, The Marble Arch, 73 Rochdale Road, Manchester, M4 4HY, 2-5pm, tickets are £25, www.eventbrite.com
Coming soon: Alston Bar & Beer, Manchester’s first speciality steak & gin restaurant at Corn Exchange
Opening in the Corn Exchange, work has begun this week to bring Alston Bar & Beef to the city this Autumn. This will be the first venue in England from the Scottish restaurant, serving the highest quality steaks and largest selection of gins, whilst incorporating local products into the offering, too. Watch this space for the opening date.
Ancoats Food Assembly launch
The market is now open, with the first collection social happening this Thursday. After ordering your locally sourced food from farmers and producers on the website, Ancoats Food Assembly then invite you to collect your foodie haul from them at Seven Bro7hers. Although it’s too late to shop this week, everyone is invited to pop in to meet the producers involved in the concept, find out more about the scheme, and create the community hub it’s destined to be. Check out thefoodassembly.com for more information.
Thu 7 Sep, Seven Bro7hers Beer House, 39 Blossom Street, Manchester, M6 4AD, 5-7pm, www.facebook.com
- Words:
- Kate Holmes
- Published on:
- Tue 5 Sep 2017
