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FashionConstructed Realities: Designer Mark Glasgow in Profile
Manchester School of Art graduate Mark Glasgow tells how he's taken his playful fabric mixtures and a fascination with Disneyland to London's Royal College Read more »| 13 Jan 2014 -
FashionDazzle Jewellery Showcase @ Manchester Art Gallery
The Dazzle jewellery showcase is being held at Manchester Art Gallery for the first time in its 32 year history. Running until 11 January, this exhibition is the perfect place to find world-renowned names and discover up and coming graduate talent Read more »| 09 Jan 2014 -
Food And DrinkWelcome to the Food & Drink Survey 2014, Northwest
You ate, you drank, you voted – and we rifled through your responses to bring you your favourite places to grab some grub and grog in Manchester and Liverpool Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
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Food and Drink Survey 2014: How to Survive a Hangover with Aubergine
Though quite a few of you suggested 'bed' as the Best Place When Hungover, the rest of you evidently pluck up the courage to venture bleary-eyed from beneath the duvet Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
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Food and Drink Survey 2014: Food and Drink Shop: Beermoth
The 'year of beer' continued to be Very Much a Thing in the Best Food and Drink Shop category – we got one of your favourites, Beermoth, to proffer some bottles Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
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Food and Drink Survey 2014: The Year of Beer: Best Pubs and Breweries
Acknowledging beer's importance, we've rounded up the best pubs and breweries in Manchester and Liverpool according to you good folks – and added some epic beer choices and hangover advice to boot Read more »| 08 Jan 2014
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Welcome to the Food & Drink Survey 2014, Scotland
Over the next eight pages, you'll learn which places your fellow Skinny readers voted as their favourites. But first, some background Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
Food And DrinkFood & Drink Survey 2014: The Winners, Northwest
Here's the full list of 2014's winning venues, and all the info you'll need to track them down Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
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Food and Drink Survey 2014: The Winners, Scotland
Here's the full list of 2014's winning venues, and all the info you'll need to track them down Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
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Food & Drink Survey 2014: First Dates – Love Blossoms at Leaf
A winner in the Best Place for a First Date category as well as one of your favourite cafés for the Northwest, we check out Leaf's flirtation-friendly events in January Read more »| 07 Jan 2014 -
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Food & Drink Survey 2014: Ready, Steady, Eat
What happens when we put your 'Best Place... When You're In a Rush?' votes for the Northwest and Google Maps together? This, that’s what Read more »| 07 Jan 2014 -
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Phagomania: Shop, in the Name of Love
We couldn't let the Survey pass without letting our resident phagomaniac loose. Here are his tips for how to get the most out of your favourite food and drink retailers Read more »| 07 Jan 2014 -
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Food & Drink Survey 2014: Hangovers, Dates and Takeaways
Here are your selections for three of the most potentially stressful categories in this year’s survey – date places, on-the-move lunches, and spots to nurse a hangover in Scotland Read more »| 07 Jan 2014 -
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Food & Drink Survey 2014: Best Pubs and Beers, Scotland
When we looked at the results in the Best Pub and Favourite Local Brewery categories, we noticed something of a pattern. Our favourite local beer expert Richard Taylor explains how one brewery from Alloa had a hand in a host of winners Read more »| 07 Jan 2014 -
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Food & Drink Survey 2014: Cook a Curry the Mughli Way
How many restaurants can say they’ve fed the Prime Minister, Nigel Slater and Jared Leto? There's only one we know of, and it proved one of your favourites in the Indian Sub-continent section in the Northwest: Rusholme's Mughli Read more »| 07 Jan 2014