Wolf Italian Street Food was the first opening in Manchester Arndale's new multi-million-pound…read moreventure, Halle Place which is supposed to contain a large, great selection of restauraunt, but nearly six months on it only contains 2 restaurants (but that's a different story)
After hearing about the cool concept of Italian street food coming to the Manchester Arndale, I was really excited to give it a try. Italian food is undoubtedly the most popular cuisine in terms of restaurants in the UK, it is shown by Italian chains dominating the high street and with Italian being the most reviewed type of cuisine for myself on Yelp.
Basically, when dining here, you're given a choice of an Italian burrito, pasta or salad, the salad its-self doesn't look (or sound) exciting and is often the same price as a burrito.
The seating selection is okay bearing in mine it is basically built into the mall and isn't a standalone store, however, there could be more seating especially compared to BarBurrito next store, which is a similar concept but with Mexican food.
The staff here didn't seem too friendly or willing to help, when I asked about gluten-free offerings, they looked confused and it seemed only one staff member out of the three or four working seemed to have any idea, even he seemed disinterested and replied "a salad", no offer of an allergen menu or book which was extremely disappointing and filled me with no confidence ahead of a prospective dining experience, due to the fast nature and it basically being like an Italian Subway, chances of cross-contamination are higher than average unless the staff demonstrate the fact they know what they're doing and have care, I found this to be the case at BarBurrito next store, but here they just seemed to run around like headless chickens whenever an allergy was mentioned which was just really poor.
Sadly due to poor handling of allergies, lack of seating and poor service, Wolf really is a disappointment and sadly deserves a one-star rating.
