NOW OPEN: PizzaLuxe is now serving up quick-service pizza and cocktails in the Arndale

The UK’s first ever quick-service pizza and cocktail bar has officially opened its doors in Manchester’s Arndale shopping centre. 

Having expanded from its flagship venues in Leeds Trinity Kitchen and Manchester Airport, PizzaLuxe is open and ready to dish out not only gourmet and handmade thin-crust pizzas, but tantalising made-to-order cocktails to hungry and parched shoppers in the Arndale.

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 is also 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 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 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 is now open in Manchester Arndale’s Halle Centre, and will operate between the hours of 11am until 8pm Sunday – Wednesday. It will be open until 10pm on Thursdays through to Saturdays.

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