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.
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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.
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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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The Sopranos stars finally visit much-loved Manchester sandwich inspired by the show
Danny Jones
In what feels like an inevitable story in the making for a long time now, members of The Sopranos cast have finally visited the popular Manchester sandwich spot inspired by the show, Bada Bing.
We know were biased, but we believe there’s an argument to be made that the beloved Manc butty shop has perhaps an even more fervent cult following than die-hard viewers of the hit American TV drama.
In case you somehow still don’t know the connection, Bada Bing is named after the strip club where several of the main characters work and spend a lot of their time.
Having returned to Manchester city centre back in 2024 after a successful first stint, they’ve been busier than ever, and that famous local name seems to have spread further than ever, including all the way over to the States, where actors from the original show caught wind and have now made the pilgrimage.
You might wonder why they didn’t name it after the butchers and deli, Satriale’s, or maybe even Artie Bucco’s oft-featured restaurant, Vesuvio. Both seem pretty ideal, right?
But let’s be honest, Bada Bing just has a better ring to it; there’s no denying that.
Either way, when series stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa came over to Manchester last week for a live edition of their podcast (which has just wrapped a limited UK tour) at the O2 Apollo.
But whilst they were here, they also made sure to visit a lunchtime joint that we’re sure Tony, Paulie, Christoper, Silvio and all of The Sopranos regulars would approve of.
While they didn’t quite perch out on the stoop with an espresso and a cigar, they did pose with co-owner Sam Gormally for a quick photo op outside the door.
Oh, and we don’t even need to confirm whether or not they liked the heroes – we just know they did.
‘Chris’ Moltisanti himself, Imperioli, also hopped on social media to share another key moment from his visit to the region:
Writing on their TikTok post, the Babd Bing boys dubbed it a “full circle moment” and reiterated that they still “can’t believe this just happened.
To be honest, we’ve barely got over it ourselves, and we’re just very big fans of the place.
We simply cannot imagine how surreal that day must have been for the whole team and everyone involved, and we hope we get a fun new special toasting the pair’s appearance sometime soon.
Featured Images — Bada Bing/Michael Imperioli (via Instagram)
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The Peaky Blinders bar in Manchester has closed down
Daisy Jackson
The Peaky Blinders-themed bar in Manchester city centre has shut for good.
The Peter Street nightlife favourite announced this afternoon that the venue has closed, with immediate effect.
Peaky Blinders opened back in 2018 in the former Sakana site, with plenty of nods to the popular Netflix series – including oil paintings of the main characters on the wall.
Over the years, its offering has expanded to include bottomless brunches and Sunday roasts, plus drinks all the way into the early hours.
But the Peaky Blinders bar has announced with ‘an extremely heavy heart’ that its days on Peter Street are over.
Peaky Blinders said in a statement: “It is with an extremely heavy heart that we unfortunately have to announce the closure of Peaky Blinders Manchester with immediate effect.
“On behalf of our entire team, we are truly thankful to every guest who has stepped through our doors since opening in 2018.
“We are devastated it has had to end this way, but grateful for the journey.
Georgina Pellant -
24th August 2022 
