The Hospitality and Catering Department offers a wide range of courses, from entry level and apprenticeships to higher education, in the areas of

Students benefit from real world work experience in our four excellent training restaurants. Our training restaurants give students the opportunity to work in professional standard facilities, preparing and serving food to paying customers.

The high standard of our training restaurants is recognised by hospitality industry accolades. In 2009 The Restaurant at Ashley Lane won the regional final in Restaurant Magazine’s College Restaurant of the Year competition. In 2008, Bistro East won the national final. The competition aims to assess and reward the valuable, practical skills that hospitality and catering students learn in the realistic working environment that college restaurants provide.

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The winners, Sophie Brand and Christina Bradbury

Students from local secondary schools took part in The Manchester College's second Junior MasterChef competition. The students, in teams of two, submitted menus which had to...

The winners and judges

The Manchester College have won first place at the Association Culinaire Française Cook and Serve competition. The competition was hosted by the college at its...

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A tutor at The Manchester College is heading to Copenhagen to visit ‘the best restaurant in the world.’ Hospitality and catering tutor, Andrew McLeod, will work alongside...

Laura Daniels, Jessica Jackson and Robert Summerville

Professional cookery students at The Manchester College's Fielden Campus have been crowned winners of the Brakes Student Chef...

Students on the VRQ 1 and VRQ 2 in professional cookery at The Manchester College's Fielden Campus have been crowned North West...

Helen Moore and Adam Ravenscroft hand over the pudding to Mike Chambers

Students at The Manchester College have cooked up a festive idea to help The Duke of Edinburgh's (DofE) Award scheme....

Laura with her award

A student chef at The Manchester College has won the Manchester Hoteliers Association Emerging Talent Award 2011. Laura Daniels received her award at the Palace Hotel, in...

Celebrity chef, James Martin, visited The Manchester College to judge the north west heat of the Red Tractor Beef and Lamb Mmmake it with Mince Challenge. Jaina Mistry, a...

Making hot chocolate from scratch

Make yourself a steamy cup of goodness with help from our short video tutorial. Professional chefs from The Manchester College take you step by step through a simple recipe...