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Based in Levenshulme, Manchester.
Marta trained in Porto and now cooks in a Levenshulme restaurant kitchen, reviewing Manchester's markets and cafés on her days off. She works the length of Rusholme's curry mile and the Portuguese and Middle Eastern grocers along the A6.
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The Great Hall, the 50th-anniversary costume exhibition and the market at the front door cost nothing until 15 November 2026. You only pay for the tours.

On Wilmslow Road, dinner is just the opening act — a mile of neon, charcoal smoke and dessert queues that runs later than anywhere else in the city.
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