Bolton comedian Peter Kay has left staff at a chip shop in Lancashire feeling all giddy after he popped in for tea unannounced.
The comic, currently in the middle of a stand-up tour of the UK, turned up for a chippy at Atkinson’s Fish and Chips in Morecambe on Wednesday evening for a mid-week treat.
Dressed casually, he posed for a picture with one of the team before digging into his order of traditional fish and chips which the team then excitedly shared on its social media pages.
Revealing that the star has now visited the cafe on Albert Road not once but twice, staff excitedly wrote: “We’ve had a very special and famous visitor come down to visit us recently.. PETER KAY
“This is his SECOND time visiting us in our cafe on Albert Road!!
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“We might not have provided garlic bread, but he certainly loved his fish & chips
“I’m sure we will see him again soon!”
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On fan commented underneath: “He knows where good fish and chips are”
Another person joked: “A worldwide hero there getting a picture with Peter Kay. Crazy times”
The fish and chip shop in Morecambe has won awards for its chippy teas and has regularly been named amongst the best in the UK.
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Image: Atkinson’s Fish and Chips
Image: Atkinson’s Fish and Chips
Accolades collected by the fish and chip shop include the Blue Ribbon prize in the Good Food Awards Fish & Chips category and praise from The Guardian critic Jay Rayner, who featured it in a list of the UK’s top 20 fish and chip shops.
On the menu, you’ll find lunchtime specials such as homemade fish cakes, sausage and mash, and chips with cheese and gravy for only £4.50, alongside traditional favourites like battered haddock and cod, battered jumbo sausages, chip buns, scampi, and spam fritters.
Elsewhere, further tempting options include a selection of freshly-baked pies, steamed steak and kidney pudding, salt and pepper squid, battered halloumi bites, and pickled onions.
Peter Kay is currently on his ‘Better Late Than Never Tour’, travelling the country for the first time in 12 years due to ‘unforeseen family circumstances’,
Featured image – Atkinson’s Fish and Chips
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Hidden Manchester bar Mala to offer unique ‘movie night’ experiences inside private cabins
Thomas Melia
You can have your own private film experience inside little wooden cabins at a popular Northern Quarter bar this summer.
Manchester city centre secret garden spot Mala is hosting an event where you and your friends can enjoy a private movie night with food, themed drinks, and bucket loads of free popcorn.
Listed as the ‘Cabin Movie Night’, get ready to sit back, relax and watch a cult classic, all from the comfort of your own personal wooden hut.
The film you’ll be watching is very on-brand too, as it’s none other than none than ‘Labyrinth’.
This secret garden spot is hiding right in plain sight over on Dale Street in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, and as well as hosting events such as these, they’re also home to some top tier eateries too.
Currently El Jefe, Doodles, Wok Bros, Christakis, D&X Caribbean, and Gulf are all serving up some cross-continental delights for you to enjoy in this marvellous space.
Some mouth-watering scran from El Jefe.Wok Bros have some delicious noodle boxes. Credit: The Manc Group
The Cabin Movie Night’ is the perfect way to round up your friends and watch a classic with a cocktail in hand.
There’s a handful of group packages available too at an additional charge, ranging from £30 to £50, which includes themed cocktails for each guest in the booking, and the cost of the ticket.
You can get FREE sandwiches in Manchester this weekend – but only if you have certain names
Emily Sergeant
Hungry Mancs can help themselves to free sandwiches this bank holiday weekend… but there’s a bit of a catch.
You can only get yourself a sandwich if you have one of these particular names.
We’ve been enjoying some absolutely stunning sunshine across Greater Manchester and much of the UK over the past couple of months, and nothing says sunny days more than taking a packed lunch or grabbing a meal deal and taking it to your local park or greenspace for a picnic.
This is why Pret A Manger has decided to make picnics easier for those who are lucky enough to have a certain type of name.
This late May bank holiday weekend, the popular high street coffee shop chain will be dishing out hundreds of free sandwiches across the UK – including here in Manchester – to anyone whose name happens to start with ‘Nic’.
That means people called Nick, Nicholas, Nicola, Nicole, Nico, Nicolette, and plenty of others could be in with a chance of some free feasting over these next couple of days.
You can get FREE sandwiches in Manchester this weekend / Credit: Wikimedia Commons | Supplied
Here in Manchester, it’s the chain’s Portland Street site, just off Piccadilly Gardens, that’s participating in the free giveaway this weekend, and there’ll be 50 sandwiches a day given out, so you’ll need to be quick if your name starts with ‘Nic’ and you’re feeling peckish.
The offer is only limited to Pret’s freshly-made sandwiches, and unfortunately excludes baguettes, wraps, or rye rolls… but free food is better than no food, after all.
All you’ll need to do to grab a freebie is show your ID at the tills of participating stores this Saturday (24 May) to prove your name, and you’ll get to walk out with your lunch in hand, all without having to spend a penny.
Manchester’s Portland Street Pret A Manger will be giving out 50 free sandwiches to ‘Nics’ this Saturday, and they’re on a first-come-first-served basis.
Georgina Pellant -
3rd August 2023 
