{"id":491781,"date":"2025-10-11T19:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491781\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:50:33","slug":"i-visited-the-shudehill-shop-serving-up-a-slice-of-rome-one-thing-really-surprised-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491781\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I visited the Shudehill shop serving up a slice of Rome – one thing really surprised me’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pizza al taglio returns to Manchester – and I’ll be returning before long\"CiaoooCiaooo By The Slice, on Shudehill(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Around this time last year, I went on holiday<\/a> to Rome. It was everything I hoped it would be.<\/p>\n

And of course, the food<\/a> was superb. Trattorias and osterias<\/a> serve up carbs by the bucket-load, staying true to traditional recipes that have been mastered over decades.<\/p>\n

One particular highlight was served in more casual surroundings, with customers often queuing outside the front door to get their hands on it.<\/p>\n

Pizza al taglio is a staple of modern Roman cuisine. Shops across the city serve up pizza, cooked in a rectangular shape, which is then cut into slices and served warm to hungry customers.<\/p>\n

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Diners can pick and choose from a variety of different pizzas to make their ideal combination. Some would eat their meals in-store, while others would take boxes away filled with slices.<\/p>\n

When Ciaooo By The Slice opened its doors<\/a> on Shudehill<\/a> earlier this year, I was delighted to see pizza al taglio make its comeback in Manchester.<\/p>\n

\"CiaoooCiaooo By The Slice, when the M.E.N. last visited(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

It’s not the first place to serve up Roman-style pizza by the slice in the city centre<\/a>. I still miss Slice on Stevenson Square, which was the perfect end-of-the-night grub after a few drinks in the Northern Quarter.<\/p>\n

It closed in 2019 and returned in 2021, from a hatch outside Oxford Road station, but the comeback was sadly short-lived.<\/p>\n

Ciaooo By The Slice follows the same tried-and-trusted pizza al taglio formula that keeps businesses booming in Rome.<\/p>\n

\"InsideInside Ciaooo By The Slice(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

So when I popped in on a recent Monday lunchtime, I was surprised to see that I was the only customer.<\/p>\n

Admittedly many offices are quiet on Mondays in the days of hybrid working, but Shudehill was busy with people waiting for buses or going about their day, so I would have expected more people coming through the door.<\/p>\n

Especially when the food is this good – and, for 2025, very good value.<\/p>\n

Ciaooo By The Slice serves up a lunchtime meal deal for \u00a38.50 – with a slice of pizza, a drink, and either fries or a cannoli. Yes, you can get a meal deal at the supermarket for less, but you won’t be remotely as satisfied.<\/p>\n

\"FromFrom left: The pepperoni and the ligure(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

I decided to get the meal deal, plus an extra slice of pizza (at \u00a36) – all in the name of journalism, of course. I wanted to try more than one type of pizza, but I definitely didn’t need the second slice.<\/p>\n

I went for the ligure – with a pesto base, mozzarella, Italian sausage, mushroom and cherry tomatoes – and a pepperoni that also featured a few generous dollops of nduja.<\/p>\n

The ligure was a triumph. The base on both pizzas was beautifully fluffy inside, but crispy on the outside, and the toppings on the ligure were packed full of flavour.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe base was delightful(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

It was also more filling than I expected, and after starting on the pepperoni, I had to ask for a box to take the rest of it away.<\/p>\n

The pepperoni and nduja were flavoursome, while the torn basil leaves were a nice addition too – but I preferred the more delicate nature of the ligure, which seemed a bit more like the pizza al taglio slices I loved back in Rome.<\/p>\n

I opted for a lemon cannoli over the fries, which was bursting with delicious filling and the ideal size to round off a filling meal.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe lemon cannoli(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

For the price and quality of the food, I’ll certainly be back at Ciaooo By The Slice before too long. I just hope a few others will be there too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pizza al taglio returns to Manchester – and I’ll be returning before longCiaooo By The Slice, on Shudehill(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,786,4884,8885,2465,8086,162088,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-491781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-food-and-drink","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-italian-food","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-city-centre","15":"tag-shude-hill","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115357275241948707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491781","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=491781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}