A popular Mexican restaurant chain is giving away 500,000 burritos across the UK today, and Manchester can get in on the action.
Today is National Burrito Day, and so, in a bid to properly celebrate the national holiday in what is a very fitting way, Mexicanrestaurant chain, Tortilla, has decided to dish out half a million burritos to hungry Brits nationwide this afternoon.
The best bit? You won’t have to pay a single penny to tuck into one.
The company – which has 77 sites across the UK, including three here in Manchester city centre on Oxford Street, inside the Arndale, and at Manchester Piccadilly station too – is giving visitors at its restaurants the chance to claim a medium burrito or naked burrito bowl for free after 2pm today (Thursday 4 April).
You can get FREE burritos at this Mexican restaurant in Manchester today / Credit: Tortilla UK
To claim your freebie, you’ll just need sign up to ‘Club Tortilla’ on the Tortilla website here, and once your account is validated, you’ll then receive an email with instructions to download your loyalty card onto your Apple or Android phone wallet.
Then you’ll be able to pop down to your nearest Tortilla restaurant after 2pm today, put your order in, and scan your loyalty card at the till to apply the discount and enjoy the free treat.
One free burrito not quite enough for you though?
Tortilla is handing out half a million burritos to celebrate National Burrito Day / Credit: Tortilla UK
Well you’re in luck, because Tortilla has announced it’s also offering one extra-special diner a ‘Tortilla Black Card’, which will them free burritos for the rest of the year.
Running in collaboration with @greatbritish.memes, the competition is going live this morning, and to be in with a shot of winning, you’ll just need to head on over to the @greatbritish.memes Instagram page here to enter.
Keep your eyes peeled for when the post goes live, as you’ll need to like it, tag a friend in the comments, and follow @tortillauk to get your entry in.
You’ll have just over a week to enter, as the competition closes at 12pm next Friday (12 April).
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Lively Irish pub Nancy Spains set to open in Manchester for the first time
Daisy Jackson
An Irish bar famed for its live music is heading up to Manchester for the first time, and is promising £2.50 pints to lure us in.
Nancy Spains will be venturing out of London for the first time promising to bring the ‘ultimate traditional Irish pub experience’ to the Northern Quarter.
If you were to ask what the hottest trend in hospitality is right now the answer would, apparently, be Guinness. We’re drowning in the stuff.
This latest opening is more about Murphy’s, another Irish stout, than Guinness (they actually won’t serve Guinness at all) but the craic will be much the same.
Nancy Spains is actually set to open almost directly opposite the aforementioned Salmon of Knowledge, taking over the former Corner Boy unit on Stevenson Square in the heart of Manchester.
To celebrate its opening, the pub will be serving its first 5000 pints of Murphy’s for just £2.50, so that it can show off the atmosphere that’s established it as ‘one of London’s favourite pubs’.
They’re promising an array of Irish whiskeys behind the bar, live music performances, and a lively late-night setting.
Nancy Spains was set up by three brothers who travelled all over their home county of rural Kerry researching Irish pubs, before launching two venues down in London.
They want it to balance a traditional pub with the vibrancy of the city.
Peter O’Halloran, co-founder of Nancy Spains commented, “We’re so excited to be launching in Manchester, bringing Nancy Spains to the heart of the Northern Quarter.
“After the success of our two venues in London, it was only right to bring Nancy Spains’ infectious spirit and Irish pride to Manchester. Slainte!”
Nancy Spains will open its first Manchester pub on Saturday 15 March at 21 Hilton Street.
Lucky Mama’s – The Italian restaurant serving pasta in a dough bowl and ‘pregnant’ pizzas
Daisy Jackson
Lucky Mama’s is a local sensation, thanks to its slightly whacky but delicious Italian creations like pasta served in a bowl made of pizza dough and its latest offering, a ‘pregnant’ pizza.
What on Earth is a pregnant pizza, you ask? Firstly we should stress this is a nickname we’ve bestowed upon the dish, rather than Lucky Mama’s chosen branding.
But essentially it’s a helping of fresh pasta that’s folded into the bubble crust of the pizza, like a half-calzone.
Lucky Mama’s started life when founders Mamadou Dhiam and Gaby Santos set up a trailer in their backyard in Eccles in the depths of lockdown.
But thanks to a formidably loyal following that’s spread the word of Lucky Mama’s far and wide, it now has two pretty pink restaurants in Greater Manchester.
Back in 2022, they threw open the doors to their Chorlton restaurant, before returning back to home turf for spot number two in Monton in 2024.
The recipes are fresh and pretty authentically Italian up until the last step, when they throw a curveball by loading their pasta into unconventional vessels.
‘Pregnant’ pizzas at Lucky Mama’sTraditional Roman pizzasLucky Mama’s pink restaurant in Chorlton
Their pasta pizza bowls are what they’re best known for and they fly out of the kitchen – this is where pizza dough is placed around a metal bowl before being baked in an oven.
Then it’s piled high with freshly made pasta, with popular flavours like cacio e pepe, mushroom alfredo, and rasta pasta.
Pasta is available in a regular ceramic bowl too.
You’ll find Lucky Mama’s at 565 Barlow Moor Road in Chorlton; and 217 Monton Road in Eccles.
Emily Sergeant -
4th April 2024 
