Midsummer Nordic Feast with Mary-Ellen McTague

Ian Jones, Food and Drink Editor

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Midsummer Nordic Feast with Mary-Ellen McTague

Manchester Art Gallery, City Centre
28 June 2019

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Mary Ellen McTague
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Manchester Art Gallery is hosting a unique series of art-meets-food supper clubs in collaboration with Manchester Food and Drink Festival. Each exclusive event sees Manchester’s best chefs create a one-off, immersive dining experience, themed around exhibitions and taking place in the stunning surroundings of Manchester Art Gallery.

Inspiration comes from the gallery’s popular Nordic Craft and Design exhibition

The season of events at Manchester Art Gallery continues with A Midsummer Nordic Feast with superb local chef, Mary-Ellen McTague of Creameries fame, hosted in the Gallery’s glass-roofed atrium space. Inspiration comes from the gallery’s popular Nordic Craft and Design exhibition and includes a drinks reception, private tour of the show, and a four-course Scandinavian inspired banquet. There will be Nordic ambient music as well as authentic Scandi decor and tableware.

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