Food and Drink

Creative Tourist

Last Updated 16 January 2018

Visitor guides

Tasting Menus in The North

Looking for the finest luxury multi-course restaurants in Manchester? Look no further. We’ve picked out the very best tasting menus in the city – just make sure you have deep pockets.

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Restaurants in Cumbria

Cumbria is far from short of good places to eat – here’s our guide to restaurants to put on your map of the area.

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Café or Coffee Shop

Baba Ganoush Food Shop and Canteen

Culture Guides

Cinema

MIF make a big announcement, Women, Organise! at HOME and we highlight some festivals across the region.

Exhibitions

Not an exhibition but a narrow, soot-stained Georgian terrace earns its place at the top of our list this month.

Fashion Fun at the Science and Industry Museum

Families

Nature-inspired outdoor literary larks, scientific shenanigans and a giant mechanical baby larger than a double decker bus. It’s all here.

April showers us with plenty of prose from some big-name authors, lots and lots of avant garde and experimental poetry, creative nonfiction and memoir a-go-go, and even words and music. We’re gonna need a bigger diary.

Music

In this month’s music guide, you’ll find some of the most creative and forward-thinking artists that 2019 has to offer.

Theatre

Our picks of the hugely impressive MIF19 line-up feature in our guide this month, alongside innovative binaural performance and world premiere literary adaptations.