Sampling Staples: Rustica

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Rustica is a Manchester landmark, with friendly staff, cheap, excellent food and a queue at almost every time of day, you can absolutely guarantee a great sandwich.

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00:00hi I'm Theo with Manchester World and today on an episode of sampling staples

00:04I'm heading to one of Manchester's most famed well-recognized and loved

00:08lunchtime institutions and that is Rustica right here in the northern

00:13quarter so I'm gonna head there I'll pick myself a sandwich I'll show you

00:16what the range is. I've been trying to make a decision and I have no clue is there a way?

00:19no no yeah of course absolutely why not yeah it knows awesome thank you very

00:27much so got the sandwich here I went for the award-winning Milano which is

00:33chicken bacon pesto garlic mayonnaise on a brown frisbee, granary frisbee I should

00:38say. It's easy to see already why it's loved I managed to get this and a

00:42carrot cake for £6.25 which is ridiculously cheap and the staff there

00:48are very very lovely you know super friendly super welcoming so I'll get

00:52back to the office we'll give it a try. I've made it back to the office now with

00:56my Milano sandwich from Rustica so let's have a look at what you get

01:02loaded sandwich and that's only one half

01:11so sandwich gone they also have a couple of little cakes at the desk so I got

01:17myself a little £1.50 carrot cake it has been out for a while now so it's

01:22slightly warm it's so easy to see why it's a Manchester institution and why

01:31it's so loved and why it's so important to the city to particularly with the

01:35cost of living being able to buy all this for around six quid is startling

01:40and it's you know massive credit to the owners for keeping their prices low

01:44massive credit to the staff for being so lovely and welcoming and massive credit

01:48to Manchester for putting so much support into such a brilliant business

01:51so for now that's everything I'm gonna finish my carrot cake and I'm gonna let

01:56you go. From Manchester Welcome Hall I've been Theo Houston-Betts

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