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Battle of the Jam

HARVEY Nichols Foodmarket hosted National Jam Week's Battle of the Jam Butty. Read more…

Feel Good Festival brings food and live music to Rochdale

DIDN'T get a Glastonbury ticket? Well, so what! Skip the mud and get the festival feeling a little closer to home with the return of Rochdale's annual Feel Good Festival. On July 10-11, Rochdale's town centre goes festival-tastic with two days of culture, food and music. The festival wi... Read more…

Microbrewery shows pulling power

A WIGAN microbrewery has won its biggest ever order as part of a supermarket beer competition. Read more…

Magical start for new restaurant

A ROAR of approval has greeted the opening of a new restaurant - from a Chinese dragon. Read more…

Find the best of the north west

A GUIDE is celebrating the best of food and drink in the north west Read more…

CityLife.co.uk backs 2009 National Winter Ales Festival

THE biggest event in every real ale lover's winter calendar is gearing up to return to Manchester's New Century Hall - and CityLife.co.uk is backing it. Read more…

CityLife.co.uk Manchester Food and Drink Awards 2008

TWO newcomers and two veterans of the north west dining scene scooped the major awards at the Citylife.co.uk Manchester Food and Drink Awards 2008 gala dinner. Read more…

Neil Sowerby looks back on the CityLife.co.uk Manchester Food and Drink Festival

Neil Sowerby, CityLife.Co.uk editor and chairman of the Food and Drink Awards panel, looks back on the highs and lows of this year's festival Read more…

Michel Roux - the icing on the cake

Former Fat Duck chef team member Mary Ellen McTague quizzes Michel Roux from that other Bray Michelin three-star, the Waterside Read more…

The People's Pint

PUNTERS at the weekend's CityLife.co.uk Greater Manchester Beer Festival in the Taste Marquee voted bank Top Pavilion Pale ale their overall favourite, earning it the acolade of the People's Pint. Read more…

Food And Drink Festival Awards

The 2008 CityLife.co.uk Manchester Food And Drink Festival awards will be announced at a glittering ceremony on Monday night. Read more…

Pictish Alchemists Ale is Best Beer Brewed in Greater Manchester 2008

MEDIEVAL alchemists' aim was to turn base metal into gold. A quirky Rochdale brewer achieved just that when he scooped the award Best Beer Brewed in Greater Manchester 2008. Read more…

Sticking together in Chorlton

TRAVELLING into Chorlton from the city centre on Manchester Road, it's easy to be captivated by the bold presence - figuratively and in status - of definitive foodie magnets Barbakan and Unicorn; and stop there. But that's really just scratching the surface. Read more…

Greater Manchester goodies

AS we head towards the weekend, culinary festival celebrations are going strong throughout Greater Manchester, with mouthwatering events in Bury, Rochdale, Stockport, Salford and Wigan. CityLife has a few special recommendations... Read more…

Good food, shame about the weather

As ever, the word 'festival' makes good weather vanish faster than Posh Spice cornered with a pudding trolley. It's a good thing that up here in Manchester we're used to it. And - talking of pudding trolleys - we're almost halfway through the 11th annual Food and Drink Fe... Read more…

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Ralph Luxon wrote: 1 year 2 months ago

Unfortunately there will not be any Duke of Bronte Ale, the beer list was closed in October. Maybee next year.

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Tom Benn wrote:

HARVEY Nichols Foodmarket hosted National Jam Week's Battle of the Jam Butty.