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Digest: CityLife Pub Of The Year 2010 (and more...)

Pub Of The Year

Digest: March 5, 2010

Everyone has a favourite boozer. Be it inner city drinking den or out of the way country pub, we all have our top place to drink, eat and get merry.

Now CityLife, though our website CityLife.co.uk, gives you the chance to help your local win through to the final with a chance of picking up our first Pub Of The Year trophy.

Voting for your favourite is easy - just visit our Pubs & Bars section.

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Another worthy competition open for entries is the fifth Food Northwest Awards And Fine Food Northwest Awards 2010.

Food and drink companies across the region can enter and the awards are designed to reward the best of our producers, retailers and processors.

For more information go to www.foodnw.co.uk.

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Our vibrant Northern Quarter seems be bucking the downward trend in the health of food and drink outlets.

Two new ventures have started up there: Thomas Restaurant And Bar, on (yes, you guessed it) Thomas Street, and coffee shop and art gallery Grindsmith, on Hilton Street.

Thomas (thomasrestaurant.co.uk) has been created by the people behind NQ’s ever-popular Cord Bar and the menu shows it will have an accent on fun and value for money.

It also seems that there will be as much emphasis on the bar as the kitchen. It opens fully on Tuesday, March 16.

Grindsmith uses the unusual ‘siphon’ process of making coffee, which was invented in Germany 150 years ago. Sounds interesting.

And the NQ’s wonderfully rejuvenated Band On The Wall has opened up a cafe bar with a very attractive offer: free ‘lucky dip’ concert tickets with every £10 meal booked in advance. For more information go to bandonthewall.org.