# Neil Sowerby: Travel, food and drink writer\. In love with words still and journalism\. > Neil Sowerby: freelance food, drink and travel writer\. Forever widening the horizons of what I’ve been writing about for half my journalistic career\. Generated by Yoast SEO v28.2, this is an llms.txt file, meant for consumption by LLMs. ## Pages - [About](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/about/) - [Home](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/neil-sowerby-freelance-food-drink-travel-writer/): Welcome to my website, widening the horizons of what I’ve been writing about for half my journalistic career\. And, I hope, offering a freshness nurtured by a lockdown reassessment of the food and drink I really care about\. - [Posts](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/posts/) - [Links](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/links/) - [Contact](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/contact/) ## Posts - [You say macaroni, I say Squacquerone\. Ciao to one of Italy’s best kept secrets](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/2026/07/21/you-say-macaroni-i-say-squacquerone-ciao-to-one-of-italys-best-kept-secrets/) - [Red\-hot Impala lives up to the hype with a dream duck and molokhia's ancient magic](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/2026/07/16/red-hot-impala-lives-up-to-the-hype-with-a-duck-of-dreams-and-molokhias-ancient-magic/) - [Bella Bologna is pasta and mortadella centrale… yet a whole lot more](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/2026/05/11/bella-bologna-is-pasta-and-mortadella-centrale-yet-a-whole-lot-more/): Bologna La Grassa is all I expected but other aspects of this historic Italian city are equally satisfying - [A decade of daiquiris downed\! Happy big birthday, Manchester Rum Festival](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/2026/06/14/a-decade-of-daiquiris-downed-already-happiest-of-birthdays-to-manchester-rum-festival/): Manchester Rum Festival is celebrating 10 years of merriment - [Danielle and Sofie to reopen OSMA and introduce Boutikk in Manchester’s Northern Quarter](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/2026/06/25/danielle-and-sofie-to-reopen-osma-and-introduce-boutikk-in-manchester-northern-quarter/): OSMA restaurant has been much missed\. Now it is returning – to the Northern Quarter ## Categories - [Food](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/category/food/) - [Restaurants](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/category/restaurants/) - [Travel](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/category/travel/) - [Beer](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/category/drink/beer/) - [Wine](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/category/drink/wine/) ## Tags - [Food](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/tag/food/) - [Manchester](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/tag/manchester/) - [Beer](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/tag/beer/) - [Wine](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/tag/wine/) - [Restaurant](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/tag/restaurant/) ## Optional - [Sitemap index](https://www.neilsowerby.co.uk/sitemap_index.xml)