NEW OPENING: The UK’s first ever quick-service pizza and cocktail bar is coming to the Arndale

The Arndale’s elusive new food court will be welcoming the UK’s first ever quick-service pizza and cocktail bar next week.

PizzaLuxe is expanding from its flagship venues in Leeds Trinity Kitchen and Manchester Airport to rustle up gourmet and handmade thin-crust pizzas, aperitivo and fresh salads alongside a tantalising made-to-order cocktail menu in the heart of Manchester’s busiest shopping centre.

The brand prides itself on venturing out of the norm by avoiding the rules of conventional Neopolitan pizza, instead creating unique Roman-style recipes. 

For example: Pizzas on the menu in Manchester will include the ‘Palermo’ with mushrooms, oven-baked ham hock, parmesan and sage, the ‘Lardo’ with bacon, brie and baby spinach, the ‘Chorizo,’ with goats cheese, roasted grapes and honey, and the ‘Pollo’, with pesto chicken, black olives, artichoke hearts and mushrooms.

But perhaps most amazingly, PizzaLuxe will also be serving their groundbreaking ‘Breakfast Pizza’: A combination of sausage, bacon, egg, and PizzaLuxe’s very own breakfast sauce all piled onto a pizza base. Perfection.

As well as pizza, PizzaLuxe is set to become the first venue in the UK to combine a quick service restaurant element with a full-service bar serving beer, wine and spirits, as well as freshly made cocktails. Beers available on draught will include Beavertown Neck Oil, Birra Moretti, Amstel and Old Mout cider, along with premium packaged products such as Camden Helles and Pale, and the new Rude Mechanicals Featherweight Pilsner.

The restaurant will also be launching a coffee kiosk, ‘Coffee + Cake’ that will be offering barista standard coffee and home-made sweet treats and cakes for a fixed price of just £3.

The innovative concept was spearheaded by former Director of Food at Harrods, Paul Goodale, who spotted a gap in the market for fast, fresh pizzas made without the reliance on the Neapolitan tradition of the pizzaiolo.

On the birth of PizzaLuxe, he said: “Our aim has always been simple and still remains at the heart of what we do; affordable luxury, exclusively for all.

“We offer a contemporary and creative execution of simple, classic pizzas and cocktails in a stylish environment, served with a warmth and generosity of spirit.”

PizzaLuxe will be opening in Manchester Arndale’s Halle Centre on Monday, July 19th from 11am until 8pm (10pm on Thursday-Saturday).

For more information and updates, visit the official PizzaLuxe website or follow their Instagram page.