Ornella’s Kitchen, the tiny Italian where people wait MONTHS for reservations, teases new restaurant

Ornella’s Kitchen, the tiny Italian restaurant where people will happily wait months to book table, has teased the arrival of a new restaurant.

The cosy spot has been doing a roaring trade in Denton, where just a handful of tables are squashed in around the deli counter.

Here you’ll find arguably the best pasta dishes in the region, from pistachio carbonara to short rib and parmesan gnocchi.

And Ornella’s Kitchen has become so popular it’s now nigh-on impossible to get a booking unless you like to plan really, really far ahead (or do what we did and eat lunch at 11.30am).

Today, the beloved Tameside restaurant has teased an expansion and a new location, with a post debuting ‘Ornella’s Little Kitchen’.

That’s pretty much all the info they’re willing to part with at this stage, promising more details next week.

But fans are very quickly speculating on where the new Ornella’s Kitchen could be.

Many are calling for the restaurant to open up in popular foodie neighbourhoods like Stockport, or Prestwich.

And others (us included) don’t care where they go, as long as it gives us twice as many chances at booking a table.

Ornella’s Kitchenall started as a lockdown project for Ornella Cancila, where customers would come and collect carefully-made Sicilian dishes from a bench outside her home.

And now it’s grown to be one of those local spots that Tameside residents are proud of, and everyone else in Greater Manchester is jealous of.

Watch this space…

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