*Editor’s note: This eatery is now closed. This review remains online as part of an archive.* As the temperature dips to the low, low digits (my office was colder than an igloo this morning), I have warmer climes on my mind. A restaurant that evokes warmth and which is cosiness personified is Lunya Manchester. An…
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The clocks going forward can only mean two things: lighter evenings to enjoy more sunshine, and new menus as restaurants welcome in the new season. Australasia Manchester has a promising new menu, which will - you have been warned - evoke hunger pangs even when casually browsing. I have visited Australasia before, finding it…
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*Original review date March 2019* When was the last time you set fire to something? Not something so benign as a Jo Malone candle or pretty votive, but a full-on flame engulfing scenario? Just to be clear, I love The Prodigy’s Firestarter, but I am no pyromaniac. Yet somehow I found myself in the hot…
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*Original review date January 2019* Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli is an enduring character who is said to have inspired American fiction writer Edgar Rice Burroughs… and perhaps restaurateur Nisha Katona too. The photogenic barrister turned entrepreneur is the founder of Mowgli Street Food, a line of eateries which promises to dish up food that Indians eat…
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*Original review date January 2019* We are in the midst of January and I wonder how you are faring with your new year’s resolutions? One of my resolutions is to eat more veggies, and I have consciously been trying to limit my meat intake. Which is why I found myself heading into Nottingham to try…
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*Original review date January 2019* It is a brand new year with brand new resolutions and this year I have just the one aspirational goal. I am therefore obliged to embrace wholeheartedly the notion of not being at my desk all the time. It is one of the joys (not) of being a writer, where…
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