Food and Drink Festival

Heroes in Norden has been shortlisted as one of the best Food and Drink outlets in Greater Manchester

Rochdale will join the Greater Manchester Food & Drink Festival for the second time in 2008. The festival in October will feature a Pennines ‘Mini Fest’ based around Littleborough and restaurant events across the Borough from Middleton to Heywood, Rochdale to Milnrow.

Demetri's Greek Night 26/09/2008
Traditional Greek Cypriot Meze with live Bouzouki music, plate smashing and free ouzo; a fun family night with great food. Littleborough's historic Coach House Heritage Centre transforms its bistro restaurant in the evening when owner Stewart Demetriades goes back to his family's Greek Cypriot roots to provide an authentic Greek experience in an atmospheric Lancashire setting. 26th and 28th September 2008, 7.30pm, £25 set menu. Also 17th to 19th October. The Coach House Bistro, Lodge Street, Littleborough, Rochdale, OL15 9AE, 01706 378 481 (until 4.30pm) 07889 868 954 (after 4.30pm).

Ten days of Seafood and Vegetarian Specials 03/10/2008
Experience the best seafood and vegetarian tapas around by visiting Rake Inn Tapas during Rochdale's Food and Drink Festival. With plenty of Spanish and Mediterranean food on the menu to whet your appetite why not choose a bottle of Spanish wine from their excellent selection to add the perfect accompaniment to your meal? Friday 3 - Monday 13 October 2008, 6pm - 10pm. Rake Inn Tapas, Blackstone Edge Old Road, Littleborough, Rochdale, OL15 0JN, 01706 379 689.

The Baum Tapas Nights 03/10/2008
The Baum Restaurant and Wine Bar is offering its customers any four tapas dishes for £10 during Rochdale 's Food and Drink Festival. The Baum is next to the home of the worldwide Co-op movement, the Rochdale Pioneers’ Museum, in the historic Toad Lane Conservation Area. And to help build up your appetite try a game of boules - The Baum is home to the Rochdale & District Petanque League with a real, French-style, boules piste! With an extensive wine and spirit list and an ever changing range of guest ales this is the perfect place to come for a relaxing evening. Friday 3 – Monday 13 October 2008 (excludes Saturdays and Sundays), 5pm – 8pm, £10 Toad Lane, Rochdale, OL12 0NU, 01706 352186.

Heroes Pie Launch 04/10/2008
731 Edenfield Road, Norden, Rochdale, OL11 5TT
To celebrate their first successful year of trading, Heroes Fine Foods shop and coffee bar present the first official showing of the 'Heroes Pie'. Bringing together three fantastic local heroes with Cissy Green's hand raised meat pie as the base and RS Ireland's delicious Championship Black Pudding sandwiched between Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire Cheese.

Madisons Spanish Evening 10/10/2008
Usually a modern British restaurant, Madisons is to hold a themed Spanish evening with four courses of traditional Spanish food with four glasses of Spanish wine to accompany it. Friday 10 October 2008, £24 per person Madisons Restaurant, St Mary's Gate, Rochdale, OL16 1DZ, 01706 346 990.

Heroes Tasting 11/10/2008
731 Edenfield Road, Norden, Rochdale, OL11 5TT
Visit Heroes Fine Foods for a selection of classic northern traditional food. Cissy Green Pies served warm with their own recipe mushy peas, tasters from Leagrams Cheese, Andrews Delicacies Sausages served on Barbakan Bread. We will also be making our version of the Manchester Tart a forgotten classic and better than the school day lunch time memories.

Fish & Chips at The Weavers’ Seaport 10-12/10/2008
Mr Thomas’s, Lake Bank, Littleborough, Rochdale, OL15 0DQ
Award winning fish restaurant Mr Thomas’s is celebrating getting its drinks licence by offering a free glass of wine or beer with every meal for two on the evenings of 10-12 October (and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in September). Littleborough’s Hollingworth Lake was known as The Weavers’ Seaport when holidaymakers from Lancashire’s industrial towns went there to relax. It’s still a great place to sit and watch the boats on the Lake amidst stunning Pennine scenery. And now you can enjoy a drink with your fish and chips, too!