Manchester Food and Drink Festival is an annual event about to be held for the 12 year running. It is nationally acclaimed and know to be an urban event which takes place in multiple locations across the city both indoors and out.
As part of the festival awards for various categories are run. After nomination the voting is public so even Mr and Mrs Didsbury get a say in who takes home the prizes. There are several Didsbury based businesses who have been nominated this year.
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Posted by Villager at 9:21 pm on July 28th, 2009.
Categories: News.
You are probably aware that The Barleycorn public house on Barlow Moor Road has been closed for a while now and there has been very little news about its future. Well we can now shine some light on the situation.
The Barleycorn has been bought by James Ramsbottom and the city centre Albert’s Shed / Dukes 92 team who are planning to replace 40% of the existing building and update it to include a pub, shops and flats.
The West Didsbury Residents association have been in negotiations with the planners for some time and it appears that they are happy about the changes being made to make the new development fit in with the surrounding area.
“The Barleycorn’s reopening is scheduled for Easter 2010, with plans currently being submitted to the city council. These include demolishing 40 per cent of the footprint of the building.” [source]
So it may not have the same name when it returns in easter 2010, but there will still be a public house on the current site of The Barleycorn.
Update: The development with be made up of a bar / restaurant where drinkers will be welcome. You can see a drawing of the proposed development on this Manchester Evening News Article.
Posted by Villager at 2:29 pm on July 24th, 2009.
Categories: News.
The Didsbury Public House are offering the chance to win a holiday in the Caribbean just for signing up to their email newsletter club.
You can sign up on the pubs website offers page.
You can also find up-to-date information about The Didsbury public house on their twitter and Facebook pages.
Posted by Villager at 6:41 pm on July 22nd, 2009.
Categories: Offers.
We’ve recently launched a new Facebook page to make it even easier to keep up with the latest Didsbury news, events and offers. The page already has 200+ fans and is growing rapidly.
If you are a Facebook user and would like to be kept up to date with special offers from Didsbury businesses, or hear about news and events going on in the local area, visit the Facebook Didsbury page and become a fan.
If you are a Didsbury business and you would like to promote your news, event or special offer free of charge to the growing number of fans then get in touch.
Posted by Villager at 10:38 pm on July 16th, 2009.
Categories: News.
