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City Life.co.uk Food And Drink Festival update

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FOUR weeks and counting to the citylife.co.uk Manchester Food And Drink Festival (October 3-13) and all across the region the individual boroughs are gearing up:

BURY On Sunday, October 12, there’s a Farm Walk (and a posh Sunday Lunch) organised by Ramsons of Ramsbottom, winner of the national restaurant of the year award in the 2009 Which? Good Food Guide.

Last year’s MFDF gave owner Chris Johnson their outstanding achievement of the decade award, partly for what impressed the Which? judges – his talent for sourcing prime raw materials from local suppliers.

Join Chris for a morning stroll around his favourite Lancashire farm then for lunch at the restaurant at 18 Market Place. The tour starts 10.30am at Clifton ’s Organic Farm, Silk Mill Lane, Inglewhite, Near Preston. £50 including lunch with good wine. Pre-booking required. Minibus transport from Ramsbottom can be arranged – dependent on numbers of advance bookings.

For bookings contact Chris Johnson: 01706 825 070 or chris@ramsons.org.uk.

OLDHAM

TO celebrate Oldham ’s Food and Drink Festival, Clough Manor Hotel in Denshaw is hosting a Great British Favourites day on Monday, October 6. Choose from the best of farmhouse country pies from rag pudding to egg, bacon and leek. Drink wonderful real ales from Greenfield Brewery and finish with a truly excellent glass of fortified wine and British cheese. Ring 01457 871 040 (cloughmanor.com). Noon-9pm. £15 a head (price includes a pint or a port).  

ROCHDALE

THROUGHOUT the Festival (5pm-8pm and excluding Saturdays and Sundays) The Baum Restaurant and Wine Bar is offering its customers any four tapas dishes for £10. The Baum is next to the home of the worldwide Co-op movement, the Rochdale Pioneers’ Museum, in the historic Toad Lane Conservation Area and is the only pub in Rochdale with a real, French-style, boules piste! 01706 352 186.  

STOCKPORT STOCKPORT follows up its first Food and Drink Festival last year with a tasty array of events, including a traditional pie tasting, a competition with chefs from its twin towns, a scarecrow festival, wine tasting, Robinson’s beer sampling and a gourmet meal at Stockport College’s L’Ecole Bistro. Expect across the town special festival menus, Stockport dishes, themed trails and locally produced goods.

To coincide with the Life on Mars exhibition at Stockport Art Gallery, there will be a Seventies-style event with cheese and pineapple on sticks with a glass of Babycham, apparently. Dig out those flares. Pick up a festival brochure from the Tourist Information Centre at Staircase House, Market Place, call 0161 474 4444 or log on to foodanddrinkfestival.com.  

TRAFFORD

OUTSIDE the MFDF dates, A Taste of Trafford are holding a Taste Sensation event on Sunday September 21. As an appetiser Jam Deli are holding a Trafford Pate and Olive Evening at Friday, September 19, from 7pm onwards. Bring your own wine. Jam Deli 19 Stamford New Road Altrincham WA14 1BN (0161 929 9191). £10.