food Articles

PLY’s winter cocktail menu
PLY’s new winter cocktail menu features an array of festive themed drinks: from the Roast Peach Old Fashioned to the hot chocolate wine, there’s something for everyone this Christmas.

Winter warmer: roasted garlic and tomato soup
Try out this recipe for roasted tomato and garlic soup to warm you up over the cold winter months and fight off any pesky colds

The Manchester café crawl
It’s no myth that Manchester is teeming with independent coffeehouses, and with so many to choose from, I’ve selected 3 of my favourites. My first stop on this ‘café crawl’ was Chapter One Books in the Northern Quarter. An independent coffeehouse and bookstore, it offers a quirky medley of all things abstract. Part of the […]

Milk and Honey: Hope in abundance
Explore Milk and Honey, a volunteer led cosy café just next to the University, with plenty of events and projects happening over the next few months.

Fallowfield’s food under the microscope
Felix Hanif-Banks explores whether your favourite Fallowfield eateries are really up to the hygiene scratch

PLY presents Oktoberfest
Laura Swain goes to visit PLY for their 10 day Oktoberfest themed event, sampling the finest German beers and pizza they have to offer.

Autumn 2018 food trends our ancestors would be proud of!
Sources suggest that the fermentation/pickling process, buying hyper-local produce to minimise environmental impact, healthy fast food and snacks, and booze-free food and drink are all popular trends during 2018. The trends of fermentation/pickling and buying from the most localised sources indicate a fashionable step into Britain’s agricultural past. What can we, in 2018, learn from […]












