Manchester’s Italian staple Salvi’s has announced it will be opening outdoor terraces at two of its venues in time for April 12.
The beloved family-run establishment – which specialises in the best recipes from the Campania region – has kept chins up throughout lockdown; running online cooking tutorials, building bespoke hampers, and operating a takeaway service for customers.
Owners have confirmed Salvi’s is set for a true comeback from next month – providing a ‘little slice of Italy’ in Manchester via their specially-created outdoor terraces.
Salvi’s is now taking bookings at two locations in the city centre – including its Northern Quarter restaurant and its flagship venue at the Corn Exchange.
Customers can expect the classic menu – including gorgeous pizza, pasta and antipasti dishes – along with wine, cocktails and music.
Salvi’s owner Maurizio Cecco said: “It’s been way too long since we welcomed our family of customers into our restaurants.
“We are not quite there yet but our specially created terraces are definitely better than the next best thing!
“It is time to get booked in, come along and let us look after you in true Salvi’s style; great food, amazing drinks, brilliant music and the warmest service in town! We can’t wait to see your smiling faces.”
Salvi’s opened its first restaurant in Manchester almost a decade ago and now has five premises dotted across the city centre – including Salvi’s Cucina and Napoletana venues on John Dalton Street.
Salvi’s Deli has continued to operate as a food shop throughout the latest lockdown.
April 12 will see two of its restaurants return temporarily as outdoor venues – with an indoor reopening planned for when government restrictions are lifted in May.
Book a table on a terrace of your choice by calling 0161 222 8021 or online.
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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.
The Manc -
24th March 2021 
