Wingstop has just opened a huge new restaurant inside the Trafford Centre, bringing its signature lemon pepper, hickory smoked BBQ and spicy Korean Q wings to the shopping complex.
The third Manchester site for the award-winning chicken wing favourite, it is located in The Orient on the centre’s ground floor.
Here, chicken fans can choose from a selection of ten bold flavours on either classic wings, boneless wings or tenders.
Image: The Manc Eats
Image: The Manc Eats
All are available hand-sauced-and-tossed to order, in sauces like Atomic, Mango Habanero, Original Hot, Brazilian Citrus Pepper and Garlic Parmesan.
Elsewhere, further sauce flavours on offer include the likes of Louisiana Rub and Hawaiian.
With a range of in-house dipping sauces including classics like Buffalo ranch, honey mustard or blue cheese, not to mention sweet potato or regular fries on the side, it’s the ultimate fast food treat.
Wingstop has also recently introduced a new Big Flavour Burger, which comes available in any of the outlet’s ten sauce flavours.
Image: The Manc Eats
Image: The Manc Eats
Served up in a buttery brioche bun with added coleslaw, ranch, and pickles, it’s already proving a hit with Wingstop regulars.
The restaurant group now has 24 sites across the UK and more than 1,600 locations worldwide.
Tom Grogan, Director of Lemon Pepper Holdings (Wingstop UK) said: “We are thrilled to be a part of Manchester Trafford Centre and expanding on our presence in Manchester city centre. Our Trafford location is set to be our largest and highest volume restaurant to date”.
Bruce Gardner, Brand Experience Director at Pradera Lateral, added: “We are delighted to welcome Wingstop, the award-winning concept, to our evolving food and beverage offering at Trafford Centre.
“This will be its 24th UK location and I look forward to supporting the opening of the restaurant with a unique launch event to attract loyal and new customers to Trafford offering an all-round, extraordinary shopping and leisure experience”.
Open from today, Wednesday 31 August, customers can head down between 11am – 10pm for their fix from Monday- Saturday, and from 11am- 7pm on Sundays.
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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.
Georgina Pellant -
24th August 2022 
