Cold winter nights always have me craving comfort food and —bar shepherds’ pie and apple crumble— pizza and roast chicken are both high up there on the comfort charts for me! So when I was invited along for a review meal at one of Altrincham’s most popular Italian restaurants, Tre Ciccio, I was instantly sold on two of their signature dishes: traditional Neopolitan pizza (the best in the city I’d been told!) and pollo scucchiato – marinated slow roasted chicken

It’s been a few years now since I embarked upon some serious wanderlust-inducing travel, but the beauty of living in such a vibrant and eclectic city like Manchester is that sometimes you don’t have to travel too far to be tantalised by the flavours of far-flung destinations.  Last weekend I was invited along to experience the new all-day South American dining concept at  Peru Perdu, the latest restaurant to take over at Whitworth Locke’s Cotton Factory restaurant space. The ethos