A Manchester-based health food company is offering you the chance to “kick start your healthy eating plan” at an incredible discounted price.
fitchef UK is helping people to “continue eating their favourite restaurant foods”, all while “limiting their supermarket shopping” to keep safe amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by offering an impressive 30% off when you place your first pre-prepared meal package order.
Unfamiliar with the popular health food company?
fitchef is a meal subscription and delivery service for busy people who love to eat “proper food”, but just don’t have the time to cook or devise healthy meal plans that are worth sticking to.
The meal prep business provides customers with restaurant quality-food straight to their door every week.
Simply put, fitchef – which is run by chefs is run by chefs Will Lee and Matt Williams – provides you with all of your midweek meals through a personalised menu offering of breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, so you never have to worry about preparing your food in advance ever again.
fitchef also proudly made headlines earlier this year after being “top of the list” for Coronation Street’s Colson Smith during his impressive health, fitness and weight loss journey.
And now, this unmissable 30%-off offer is ready to make the most of during lockdown.
Fitchef UK
Launching the new offer across its social media platforms, fitchef UK said it aims to “take the stress out of meal planning at the click of a button”.
The exclusive discounted offer provides customers with five breakfasts, lunches, snacks and dinners delivered directly to their door with contact-free and COVID-safe drop off every Sunday, so there is “no need to go to the supermarket for your weekly shop”.
fitchef will provide all the meals you need to keep you eating well and it’s cheaper than a takeaway too, so you can “keep eating your favourite restaurant-style meals throughout lockdown”.
Packages are available for meat eaters and vegetarians across a variety of calorie totals.
If you don’t quite find something that suits you though, you can also create your very own bespoke package with your personal choice and combinations of meals on a rolling subscription, which can be cancelled at any time.
Fitchef UK
And if all of that wasn’t brilliant enough as it is, a donation of £1 from every new order placed through the deal will go directly towards food poverty relief charity FareShare GM, which aims to feed some of Greater Manchester’s most vulnerable and in-need communities.
You can use the code EATATHOME to access to 30% off for your first order.
For more information about fitchef UK and to kick-start your lockdown eating plan, you can check out their website and place your orders here.
Inside Soots, the tiny new pasta restaurant in the Northern Quarter
Daisy Jackson
There’s another success story coming out of Altrincham Market – pasta kitchen Soots has gone and opened its very own restaurant in the Northern Quarter.
Owners and co-founders Ellie Proudfoot and Ruth Duarte have taken the leap to their very own bricks and mortar site on Tib Street, where they can serve up their handmade fresh pasta in their own restaurant space.
Named after their cocker spaniel Soots, the restaurant opens officially tomorrow.
The pair had hoped that Altrincham Market would be a launchpad to them eventually opening their first restaurant – and it’s worked brilliantly.
Inside Soots, it’s a cosy space with amazing green arches along the walls and a huge window that opens out onto this iconic Northern Quarter street.
Soots will again have a fully plant-based menu, broken down into snacks, small plates, pasta and puddings.
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Expect heritage tomatoes with stracciatella and basil oil, butternut squash and chilli arancini, and a beautiful dish of marinated beetroot.
As for the pasta, there’ll be rigatoni with browned butter and confit tomatoes, sundried tomato-filled girella, and a lovely basil pesto spaghetti (a firm favourite from their Altrincham Market days).
And it wouldn’t be a pasta kitchen without a tiramisu on the dessert menu, along with lemon and olive oil ice cream, and white chocolate mousse.
Soots Pasta has been the first solo venture for Ellie, who used to work as a private chef as well as at restaurants around the region.
She’s taken her background – which includes culinary school in France – to create this modern European menu that takes inspiration from Italy.
What’s not immediately obvious, on reading the menu or eating it, is that everything on the Soots Pasta menu is entirely vegan – and they have gluten-free pasta available on request.
Soots Pasta is on Tib Street and officially opens on Saturday 9 Augst.
A mobile Manc cocktail bar is rolling into a thriving new Greater Mancheser neighbourhood
Danny Jones
Greater Manchester has plenty of up-and-coming areas both here in the city centre and out in the boroughs, and one of those – Middlewood Locks over in Salford – is about to be treated to its own mobile cocktail bar.
You’ve got to love a Manc-born and bred independent business.
The canalside New Makers Yards apartments on Middlewood Locks are some of the most desirable new homes and flats you’ll find on the outskirts of the city, but with their on-site Seven Brothers pub sadly closing earlier this year, it is lacking one key thing: somewhere to drink.
However, with Cocktail Cartel MCR rolling into town for National Rum Day, residents can get a taste of, hopefully, what’s more to come.
Cocktail Cartel is a brand new, completely independent mobile bar that’s already starting to take the events industry by storm.
Serving unique and innovative creations (including plenty involving Captain Jack’s go-to tipple), they’ll be slinging cocktails to the New Makers Yards natives along the stunning and ever-thriving Middlewood Locks this month.
Created by Katie and Erik, who have been working in Manchester’s hospitality scene for nearly 20 years combined, these two have a passion for supporting fellow local indies and bringing amazing drinks to the table wherever the opportunity presents itself.
From their ‘Grown Up Coke Float’, which has all the punch of a classic Long Island Iced Tea only with a scoop of toffee ice cream, chocolate sauce and sprinkles thrown in there, to a Pedro Pascal-inspired tequila numbers (yes, really), they have a lot of fun behind that bar.
Better still, most of their spirits are coming from local legends, Spirit of Manchester, and for this particular upcoming event, it wouldn’t be right to host National Rum Day in 0161’s second city without a gorgeous bit of Salford Rum.
But it doesn’t stop at just cocktails; the Cartel will also be pouring pints from nearby Track Brewery among various other regional favourites.
Once again, they’ll be popping up at New Makers Yard on Saturday, 16 August from noon onwards, promising rum, cocktails, beer, wine, cider and softies – so let’s just hope we get plenty of sun for it.
Keep an eye on their socials for how you might be able to grab some freebies also…
If you visited the most recent edition of Middlewood Locks Fest, you know this place is buzzing when the weather hits just right and the drinks are flowing. See you there.
Emily Sergeant -
25th November 2020 
