Deliveroo has come through with a big discount for Black Friday that will allow customers to take 25% off their takeaway.
The discount for the biggest shopping day of the year applies to all orders over £20 – and it’s already live.
There are some incredible local Manc restaurants and operators taking part, from the ever-popular burger and shake joint Archie’s, to newcomers like Yum Cha and The Green Lab.
Deliveroo’s Black Friday deal is live from Wednesday 23 to Friday 25 November, right across the UK.
But if you want a taste of what’s up for grabs at 25% off here on home turf, we’ve got you covered.
Some of the restaurants taking part include Zouk, the acclaimed Indian grill and curry restaurant that’s drawn in some pretty famous faces over the years (Drake, Rihanna and the entire Man United squad, to name a few).
Zouk. Credit: The Manc GroupYum Cha Manchester. Credit: The Manc GroupFrankie’s Toasties. Credit: The Manc Group
There’s also Frankie’s Toasties, a retro toastie bar with fillings like super noodles, Full English breakfasts, chilli con carne, four-cheese macaroni, and chocolate, which recently opened a stall inside the Manchester Arndale.
Yum Cha, which opened at Kampus this summer after 11 hugely successful years in Liverpool, serves incredible roast meats cooked for 24 hours in a custom-made roasting oven, plus Chinese small plates and dim sum.
Crowd favourite Nell’s, famed for its 22-inch New York-style pizzas, are also taking part in Deliveroo’s Black Friday sale.
Others include Piccolino’s, All Stars, Zumuku Sushi, Yara, The Drop Bar Cafe, and The Green Lab.
You can head to Deliveroo to place your Black Friday order with 25% off from today until Friday.
Featured image: The Manc Group
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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.
Daisy Jackson -
23rd November 2022 
