{"id":407653,"date":"2025-09-08T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407653\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:14:14","slug":"one-of-manchesters-favourite-restaurants-moving-to-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407653\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Manchester’s favourite restaurants moving to Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

The restaurant has racked up a celebrity following including sports pundits, TV stars and musicians\"JerkJerk Junction founder Jake Shaffi (Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

A popular Caribbean restaurant<\/a> loved by celebrities is preparing to open in Liverpool city centre<\/a>. Jerk Junction will be the latest company to land in Liverpool ONE in what has been a massive year for high name brands entering the complex.<\/p>\n

Jerk Junction, which was founded by Jake Shaffi in Manchester, has secured the former Gourmet Burger Kitchen site near Chavasse Park.<\/a> This will be the company’s fourth site as part of “a mission to make authentic Jamaican food more accessible in the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jerk Junction previously won The Manc Eats Takeaway Champion <\/a>award, receiving thousands of votes from all over the region.<\/p>\n

The menu features jerk chicken, curried goat and lentil stew – all served with rice and peas and prepared with traditional spices – and claims to offer “the best Caribbean food outside of the island”.<\/p>\n

The Caribbean restaurant has racked up a celebrity following including sports pundit Ian Wright, television star Kai Fegan and musician Loyle Carner.<\/p>\n

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The company’s ethos statement reads: “At Jerk Junction, everyone is family. That starts with the people in our kitchen, the team who makes the magic happen.<\/p>\n

“But it includes every customer who walks through our door, and the community we live in. We\u2019re proud to be Jamaican and proud to support our local people.”<\/p>\n

\"JerkJerk Junction founder Jake Shaffi (Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Boarding has gone up in the Liverpool sites windows as renovations take place inside. An opening date is yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

Rob Deacon, Landsec’s asset management director at Liverpool ONE,<\/a> previously said: “You\u2019ll be seeing a lot more vinyl going up over the next few months as the scheme\u2019s tenant mix continues to evolve and elevate.<\/p>\n

“2025 will be the biggest year for openings since the scheme opened in 2008, with the strongest line up of new brands anywhere in the UK. Watch this space.”<\/p>\n

\"POPPOP MART will be located on upper South John Street(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Liverpool ONE <\/a>is also gearing up to welcome the UK’s biggest Pop Mart store to date. Occupying a 6,200 sqft space on the upper level of South John Street, the new store will be close to other design-focused lifestyle brands like KENJI and MINISO.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Liverpool shop will offer POP MART<\/a>\u2019s complete collection of collectible blind boxes, with ranges including exclusive characters such as Hirono, Crybaby, Peach Riot, Kubo, Skullpanda, and The Monsters, most commonly known as Labubus.<\/p>\n

An opening date for the UK’s biggest POP MART store is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restaurant has racked up a celebrity following including sports pundits, TV stars and musiciansJerk Junction founder Jake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,8899,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-407653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-restaurants","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115168389777097470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}