A popular Mexican restaurant chain is giving away 500,000 burritos across the UK today, and Manchester can get in on the action.
Today is National Burrito Day, and so, in a bid to properly celebrate the national holiday in what is a very fitting way, Mexicanrestaurant chain, Tortilla, has decided to dish out half a million burritos to hungry Brits nationwide this afternoon.
The best bit? You won’t have to pay a single penny to tuck into one.
The company – which has 77 sites across the UK, including three here in Manchester city centre on Oxford Street, inside the Arndale, and at Manchester Piccadilly station too – is giving visitors at its restaurants the chance to claim a medium burrito or naked burrito bowl for free after 2pm today (Thursday 4 April).
You can get FREE burritos at this Mexican restaurant in Manchester today / Credit: Tortilla UK
To claim your freebie, you’ll just need sign up to ‘Club Tortilla’ on the Tortilla website here, and once your account is validated, you’ll then receive an email with instructions to download your loyalty card onto your Apple or Android phone wallet.
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Then you’ll be able to pop down to your nearest Tortilla restaurant after 2pm today, put your order in, and scan your loyalty card at the till to apply the discount and enjoy the free treat.
One free burrito not quite enough for you though?
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Tortilla is handing out half a million burritos to celebrate National Burrito Day / Credit: Tortilla UK
Well you’re in luck, because Tortilla has announced it’s also offering one extra-special diner a ‘Tortilla Black Card’, which will them free burritos for the rest of the year.
Running in collaboration with @greatbritish.memes, the competition is going live this morning, and to be in with a shot of winning, you’ll just need to head on over to the @greatbritish.memes Instagram page here to enter.
Keep your eyes peeled for when the post goes live, as you’ll need to like it, tag a friend in the comments, and follow @tortillauk to get your entry in.
You’ll have just over a week to enter, as the competition closes at 12pm next Friday (12 April).
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New Manchester restaurant receives rave review as another is slammed as ‘torture’
Daisy Jackson
Pip, a new restaurant in Manchester, has received a rave national review this week – a review which slammed another restaurant in the same feature.
Food critic William Sitwell wrote in his review in The Telegraph that Pip is charming, refined, and fabulous.
“Bravo, Pip. Pip pip!” he wrote in the glowing write-up on the new restaurant, which stands at the foot of the new Treehouse Hotel and has the acclaimed Mary-Ellen McTague at its helm.
Sitwell’s Telegraph review particularly raved about dishes including Lancashire hot pot (‘fabulously good’), a wild garlic soup (‘a gorgeous thing’), and an apple trifle (‘a gift from heaven’).
But while it was all good for Pip, there were significantly less positive adjectives heaped on another restaurant in Manchester.
In fact, he said that Pip is ‘a great-value tonic’ for the ‘brash (and pricey) torture’ across town.
That restaurant was KAJI, formerly known as MUSU, which he said was ‘all tummies, bald heads, tattoos and heat’.
Sitwell said that while the service and sashimi are good at KAJI, the ‘place is afflicted by some overbearing cooking that cheapens the noble name of Japanese cuisine’.
He wrote: “Lamb chops fail the tender test and are properly wrecked sitting on a vulgar pond of sticky “tomato ponzu”. No beast should die to have that stuff squirted anywhere near it.
“And Kaji is a Japanese gaff without sake. Which is like opening a British pub in Tokyo and forgetting to put an ale on tap.”
Sharing the review, Pip wrote: “Thankyou @telegraph and @williamsitwell for the fantastic feature. We’re so proud of our team here.”
Milk Maids, Bolton – The family-run ice cream parlour on an award-winning farm
Daisy Jackson
Ice cream doesn’t come much fresher than those served at Milk Maids – in fact, you’ll be standing right on the family farm where the cows that produce the milk live, as you tuck into your scoop.
This unassuming dairy farm in Bolton has been in operation for decades, and in the same family for generations.
But it’s when sisters Fiona and Rebecca saw the full potential of all that award-winning milk being produced on their farm that Milk Maids was born.
This ice cream parlour on Dearden’s Farm in Over Hulton is now one of the hottest spots in Greater Manchester, especially when the weather is similarly hot.
Every month they release a whole batch of flavours, all made fresh daily (you can literally see Fiona legging it across the yard with buckets of milk to make fresh batches), with May specials including white chocolate and sea salt caramel, raspberry cookie, and passionfruit pavlova.
Milk Maids, Bolton – The family-run ice cream parlour on an award-winning farm
Cones can be filled with molten chocolate or pistachio creme before your ice cream is scooped and pressed into the cone.
Or you can have your chosen flavour whizzed up into a milkshake, served in a milk bun, or presented in an insulated take-home box for later.
We could wax lyrical about how good this ice cream is, but the queues really do speak for themselves, and you should go and get in it right now.
Emily Sergeant -
4th April 2024 
