COMING SOON: Salt & Pepper set to open new restaurant in the city centre

Just months from its departure from the Arndale Market, beloved Chinese street food pop-up Salt & Pepper is set to get its own restaurant. 

A lunch time staple for hundreds of city centre dwellers, Salt & Pepper has experienced overwhelming success since its launch in 2019, thanks to its menu of Eastern and Western cuisines.

While the pop-up has spent the last few months operating out of Black Dog, it is now setting its sights upon its very own restaurant in the Northern Quarter.

The licence application on the Council website promises fast-food style service with communal seating in a venue on High Street; just next door to the English Lounge pub.

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Salt & Pepper has also applied to be open from 11:30am to 11pm every day of the week and for an alcohol license meaning, for the first time, customers will be able to enjoy a range of alcoholic beverages alongside their chicken and chips.

The finer details surrounding their latest venture are yet to be disclosed, though it is presumed they will continue operating out of Black Dog for the time being.

This comes five months on from the pop-up’s shock departure from the Arndale Market, with the owners taking to social media to announce the news.

The post read: “Due to the limited facilities in the Arndale Market, we’re no longer able to keep trading in this space.

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“If you’ve been to the market, you’d know there isn’t much of an extraction system on our side (to expel smoke and smells), and the council (who run the market) have said it’s our responsibility to fix this because of the popularity of our stall.”

Their post went on to explain that the council had said it had been unwilling to extend the restaurant’s lease unless they invested upwards of £100,000 to put in their own extraction system.

The owners went on to say they were ‘absolutely gutted’, and had spent time ‘trying to figure out how to keep our amazing staff employed and our business dreams alive’.

The post went on to reveal that there would ‘hopefully be some exciting news in the near future’.