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You can get a battered Christmas dinner at this Manchester chippy

Daisy Jackson - 22nd December 2021

A chippy in Manchester has started serving up a battered, deep-fried Christmas dinner.

The festive feast comes with all the trimmings, including stuffing balls and sprouts.

The Chippy on Burton Road’s Xmas Specials menu also features brie and cranberry parcels, and battered turkey goujons.

You can even get a ‘pig in a duvet’, a supersized peppered sausage wrapped in bacon, then battered and deep-fried.

The Christmas specials are available as individual items at the West Didsbury fish and chip shop.

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Or, if you’re feeling tough enough, you can get the lot as a £26 ‘Blow Out Platter’.

The huge platter includes the turkey goujons, a pig in a duvet, brie parcels, sprouts, stuffing balls, chips and gravy.

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The Chippy on Burton Road’s Christmas specials. Credit: The Manc Group

The Chippy on Burton Road’s Christmas specials. Credit: The Manc Group

There’s a veggie version too, skipping the turkey and pig, and a scaled-down turkey platter.

The Chippy on Burton Road even has dessert covered, with its battered Christmas pudding with ice cream.

You can get £5 off your Deliveroo order using the code THECHIPPY5 at deliveroo.co.uk.

Featured image: The Manc Group

Food & Drink

Family behind Salvi’s launch new concept, weeks after iconic restaurant closure

A spritz and a pizza sandwich

Just weeks after the closure of its iconic, 16-year-old Italian restaurant in the Corn Exchange, the family behind Salvi’s have revealed a brand-new concept.

And this time, the reins are being handed over to the next generation.

Salvi’s founder Maurizio Cecco has helped to shape Amò, but it’s all the brainchild of his daughter, Sienna.

Sienna will run the business out of a unit up on Deansgate Mews, serving fresh pasta dishes, pizza sandwiches, tubs of tiramisu, and two-for-£10 spritzes.

The deli aspect of the original Salvi’s has been carried over to Amò too – you’ll find shelves almost to the ceiling filled with Italian pasta, wine, olive oils, pistachio spreads, and more.

Sienna has grown up in restaurants, with her parents launching Salvi’s when she was just two years old.

She said she wants the space to be a livelier, fresher version of the Italian restaurant that has been so loved by Mancs for so many years.

Sienna outside Amò

Fresh pasta dishes — Sienna outside Amò

Amò, which is Neapolitan slang for ‘my love’, will have loads of fresh Italian dishes, including arancini, gnocchi, and hearty pasta plates.

At lunchtimes, guests can order from a £10 lunch menu, with dishes changing daily depending on the best produce the kitchen can get – it could be a pizza sandwich with proscuitto and tomato, a spicy pasta, or a gnocchi bake, always served with your choice of soft drink.

With its position on Deansgate Mews, Amò basks in the sunshine at lunchtimes.

And while it’s definitely a different concept to the original Salvi’s, Amò looks set to carry the family’s Italian food legacy into its next generation.

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Food & Drink

Award-winning Didsbury bakery La Chouquette reveals incredible new site

The new, expanded La Chouquette

La Chouquette is one of Greater Manchester’s top bakeries – an award-winner, with queues down the street every weekend for its authentic French pastries and loaves.

And now they’re ready for a new chapter, revealing a major expansion today.

Owners Catrina and Flo have painstakingly expanded the bakery into the unit next door, creating what feels like a true French bakery.

And in the midst of this huge renovation project, they’ve welcomed a tiny new baby boy – quite the summer for the couple.

Catrina and Flo launched La Chouquette in lockdown, and in a time where people could only get their hospitality fix from takeaways, immediately became one of the most popular spots in the region.

Their success has been so great, you’ll still consistently find queues down the street every weekend, for their top sellers like their authentic almond croissants.

Then in October 2024, they grew the business and launched Piqniq, a new deli in Didsbury village, serving freshly-baked baguette sandwiches, breakfast butties, toasties, tiramisu pots and their legendary pastries.

The new-look La Chouquette features beautiful details like mosaic floors, rich blue walls, wooden shelves, and brass light fixtures.

La Chouquette's best-selling almond croissants — La Chouquette’s best-selling almond croissants

Inside the stunning new La Chouquette in Didbsury — La Chouquette’s best-selling almond croissants

The huge new counter displays more pastries and breads than ever before, like a hearty chausson aux pommes filled with apples that will be perfect for autumn, plus seasonal treats like a rhubarb creme brulee pastry, and homemade quiche.

Speaking at the grand relaunch today, Catrina said: “The layout has changed, it looks so much more chic, it looks like a traditional French bakery. We’re really excited about it.”

As for what’s on the counter, Flo reassured fans that their beloved almond and pistachio croissants remain, but with some new savoury editions, like a truffle croque monsieur made with croissant dough.

La Choquette has reopened today, and will be open seven days a week from 7am until 5pm.

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Featured image: The Manc Group