A spate of engagements (all food and drink related naturally!) has recently meant a brief hiatus from blog posting. When I say engagements...

Mal: a man passionate about everything barbecue Despite having talked incessantly about supper clubs, and enviously looked on at the mul...

Last week several food bloggers took to the comment pages of Manchester Confidential to defend the cooking of Ernst Van Zyl, head chef at Et...

We are hosting the second of our monthly ‘Food For Thought’ quiz on 18 February at 7.30pm in the back room of the Gas Lamp. If you’re a s...

Despite having worked within hospitality in Manchester for a combined total of nigh on 14 years, both Jamie and I have - somehow - man...

The best homemade pizza? Pizza is one of those foodstuffs that elicit obsessive behaviour. Fanatics will  go to painstaking lengths to ...

I bought Jamie a copy of Giles Coren's How To Eat Out  before I really knew who he was (Coren that is, not my other half), and - rather ...