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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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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There’s a non-alocholic pairing dinner coming to Manchester this Dry Jan
Thomas Melia
A one-night-only pairing of two dining out staples from the food and drink world is coming to Manchester next month, and it also happens to be non-alcoholic for anyone doing Dry January.
Taking place at the wonderful Maray over on Lincoln Square, each dish served throughout the night will be expertly paired with a non-alcoholic drink from zero-per cent experts, Lucky Saint.
This Middle Eastern eatery is always surprising its diners, last September they made their infamous roasts free for one day only, and this upcoming event is sure to be as exciting with its unique tastings.
Lucky Saint came to fruition after partnering with a historical brewery in Bavaria who’ve produced beer for over 400 years, creating a non alcoholic alternative which greeted UK drinkers in 2020.
Lucky Saint will be readily available and paired with every meal.Diners can expect some sensational food as always from Maray. Credit: Publicity Picture (Supplied)
Titled ‘The Official Beer Of Dry January’, supplying IPAs and lagers to a host of stockists, not only are their products fully non-alcoholic but they’re also entirely plant-based – meaning they’re the perfect tie-in with Veganuary.
If their website is anything to go by, diners are set to enjoy refreshments such as their unfiltered lager and a 0.5% ‘Hazy’ IPA which contains juicy tropical notes. Don’t mind if we do.
Although it’s hard to say what the food offerings may be, it’s guaranteed that anyone who attends is in for a treat as this site has even served famous faces like Dua Lipa back in 2022 while she was on tour.
Their vegan menu features some meat free feasts like a falafel sharer and a delicious oyster mushroom shwarma, it’s a well-loved restaurant.
Vegans are certainly catered for at this event as it’s not only the free-flowing drinks that contain no animal products, there will also be an entirely vegan menu on hand.
Maray have multiple locations but anyone who couldn’t get enough of the flavours the first time in Manchester can attend their Liverpool pairing dinner which is happening the very next day.
The Maray x Lucky Saint Dry January Pairing Dinner is coming to Manchester on Wednesday, 15 January from 7-9:30pm with tickets live HERE.
And if you’re looking for other places to enjoy a guilt-free drink in the city centre this month, we’ve got a few suggestions for you:
Doing #DryJan doesn't have to mean staying in or saying goodbye to the pub. 🍹
‘That’s the end’ – Gary Usher announces shock closure of one of his bistros
Daisy Jackson
Celebrity chef Gary Usher has announced the closure of one his award-winning restaurants.
He’s shared today that Burnt Truffle, part of his Elite Bistros enterprise and the restaurant that launched his Crowdfunding business model, has ‘closed for good’.
The acclaimed restaurant opened almost a decade ago, with hundreds of prospective customers investing in the business in exchange for vouchers to spend when the doors opened.
Following the success of that, Gary Usher went on to run Kickstarters for several other restaurants, including Kala in Manchester city centre and Hispi in Didsbury.
The group’s most recent opening was The White Horse in 2023, its first venture into the world of pubs.
Elite Bistros has been a rare example of a neighbourhood restaurant that’s managed to weather the sh*tstorm of rising costs that has hit hospitality since 2020 – until now.
Burnt Truffle has closed with immediate effect, with Usher saying he’s ‘never been able to make it work here’.
He stressed that all suppliers, VAT and rent is paid, that the staff who have sadly been made redundant have also been paid, and that anyone with vouchers to spend can do so at the remaining Elite Bistros sites.
Gary Usher announcing the closure of Burnt Truffle today. Credit: X, GaryUsher_Burnt Truffle has closed with immediate effect. Instagram, @burnt_truffle
He said: “I need to share some news with you and unfortunately it’s not great news. I’m sat here in Burnt Truffle and we are now closed. We’re closed for good.
“I had a 10 year lease and that lease has come to an end. I could have renewed that lease but the honest truth is I’ve never been able to make it work here.
“I’ve been quite vocal about how difficult the government have made it over the last few years, but ultimately I’ve never been able to make it work here, so the best business decision for us is to close.”
Some news.@BuRntTruffle is now closed. Thank you to all the team & all the guests over the last 10 years. Our lease has come to an end & we have decided to part ways. All our bills are paid & all vouchers will be redeemed. From all of us at Burnt Truffle, Thank you & good night. pic.twitter.com/r9eisksJwb
He continued: “It’s a sad day, it really is. You know, when I think back to when we opened here, we had the likes of Jay Rayner and Lisa Markwell coming, and we got two rosettes quite quickly too.
“We were the first crowdfunded restaurant in the UK with non-investment crowdfunding. So that started our journey with crowdfunding, actually.
“So what does it mean for the business moving forward? Well, we carry on. We just keep going, we keep trying, and we keep innovating to get through these tough times. And, and that’s it really.
“Thank you to everyone that came, thank you to all the team. Thanks to all the guests. We’ve loved being in Heswall. We’ve loved being in Burnt Truffle, but that’s the end.”
Georgina Pellant -
24th August 2022 
