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Student discounts – up to 25% off

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Aubergine Parmigiana

Hungry? We serve award-winning home cooked food and have some exclusive student discounts for you.

Amaretto Deli has long had a great relationship with students, particularly those from NUA (Norwich University of the Arts) which is located just down the road from us on St Georges Street.

This year, we’ve crafted three special lunchtime discounts for students. If you’re new to Norwich and haven’t tried our food before, or whether you know us well, if you’re in full time education and can prove it with a card or app, then these offers apply to you:

Student discounts:

Any pizza slice: £2 (20% off full price)

Any panini: £3 (over 25% off full price)

Any ready meal £4.50 (10% off full price)

We also offer a loyalty cards for hot drinks: buy nine hot drinks and your tenth is free.

Our panini are made fresh each morning, using locally sourced bread including focaccia, baguette and more. Our cod goujon is justly famous, and the tuna baguette a daily favourite. The pizza is thin crust, made in the pizza oven room just beyound the til, and served until about 4pm. There are a variety of pizza toppings, which change daily and if you have a particular favourite we will make a new pizza for you as you wait, if possible. Our hot and cold meals also vary daily and include vegan food, vegetarian food, salads, hot dishes like lasagna, pasta and parmigiana, all made fresh in our kitchen each morning.

Find out more about our pizza, hot and cold meals and sandwiches here. You can also keep up with our daily specials on Facebook and Twitter, or join us on Instagram (@AmarettoDeli).

See you before too long!

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Hungry? Our takeaway sushi lunch box is available every Friday

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takeaway sushi lunch box

In partnership with our friends at Shiki, an independent Japanese restaurant in Tombland, Norwich, we offer a delicious and filling takeaway sushi lunch every Friday alongside our other specials; all available at Amaretto Deli, 16 St Georges Street.

The sushi include salmon, tuna and delicious raw vegetables; just take your pick of your preferred box. Consisting of a healthy portion of your favourite filling surrounded by seaweed and sushi rice, the sushi is served complete with ginger, fresh wasabi, soy sauce and of course chop-sticks.

Due to the fact that the food isn’t cooked and served within minutes, the fish is cooked; so this is a different kind of experience to fresh sashimi, the sushi that consists of raw fish, but just as delicious. (It is still officially sushi – as that term actually refers to the kind of sour rice used in this kind of food, not the fish…)

Shiki is a fantastic restaurant, long beloved of foodies in Norwich, and anyone who enjoys well-made, authentic Japanese food. If you’re ever looking for a good meal, we recommend it, especially their elegant Bento boxes, or Tuesday night all you can eat buffets: perfect for a celebratory treat. Their plum wine is a great accompaniment; don’t miss out on that. All the food is beautifully served, and looks as good as it tastes. We eat there for every staff Christmas meal, and always have a brilliant time.

If you’re interested in the takeaway sushi box, please do come and see us at Amaretto Deli, 16 St Georges Street, NR1 3BA any Friday afternoon. If you’re feeling particularly keen do come close to 12.30pm, as this sushi lunch does often sell fast.

Sushi is just one of our lunches, we offer three daily specials and soups as well as sandwiches, pizza and snacks through-out the week; find out more on our take-away page.

Have a great weekend.

the Amaretto team

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Join us in ditching the plastic part two: taking out the take-out boxes.

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Lamb Moussaka and our new cardboard take-out boxes.

Introducing our new cardboard take-away boxes

Last month we blogged about our commitment to ditching single use plastic in Amaretto Deli, after one too many horrifying accounts of what our use of throw-away plastics is doing to our oceans.

We’d just like to update you on where we’re at – yesterday we were proud in introduce our new cardboard take-away hot food boxes, and biodegradable straws. We are also now serving only wooden cutlery.

Macaroni Cheese in cardboard: looking good
Lamb Moussaka loving its new home
A stack of goodness.

Our customers have reacted really positively to these changes – it’s helping us all to feel better about our daily impact on the planet; and we’re going to keep going, watch this space.

Join us – and here’s why

To all the other small businesses (and individuals) out there, we are in many ways more fleet of foot than large businesses, let’s turn that to our advantage. Why don’t you join us in giving people what they want and need – and cut out the plastic, because this battle looms ever larger and we need to keep this revolution moving. Why? Here are some recent developments:

Plastic Island bigger than we thought

If you’re doubting the importance of all this have a look at today’s reports on research published in the journal Nature that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is greater than previously thought. Laurent Lebreton, an oceanographer and lead author of the study says:

‘We need a coordinated international effort to rethink and redesign the way we use plastics. The numbers speak for themselves. Things are getting worse and we need to act now.’

Ocean plastic will triple in the next ten years

Apart from that headache, the ocean plastic problem is set to get worse: only yesterday the Government’s The Foresight Future of the Sea Report warned that the plastic littering the ocean is  currently due to treble in the next ten years. Professor Ed Green said:

‘When people get to see what is in the ocean, and the Blue Planet series and so on have helped people to visualise it, and then I think their reaction is twofold, one is complete wonder at what is there, and in other cases complete horror at what we’re potentially doing to it.’

Still not convinced? How about this report from Orb Media last week that 93% of top bottled water brands are contaminated with micro-plastics (!)

It’s easy to feel hopeless in these circumstances, but there is a great deal we can all do, and we can do it now. Do keep us updated on how you’re getting on, and we’ll do the same.

Good luck with it!

Amaretto Deli

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Sweet blood orange: why you need this fruit of the devil

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Blood Oranges from Sicily, Amaretto Deli, Norwich, UK

Known as ‘the fruit of the devil’ because of its striking ruby colouring, the flesh of the blood orange is as distinctive as its raspberry infused taste. Grown in Sicily, the orange has protected geographical status, and is higher than other oranges in anti-oxidants: it packs a punch in every way. For this reason it is an incredibly good-looking and healthy option for a juice – Italians regularly make themselves a spremuta d’arancia rossa – a fresh blood orange juice – at breakfast time, or instead of a mid-morning coffee.

Fresh blood orange juice / Spremuta d’arancia rossa:

To make your morning sparkle, all you need to do is squeeze the juice of one orange (no high-tech gadgets needed) and add it to a glass, adding the same amount of water, to taste. With the oranges we have in the shop right now there’s no need to add any sugar – they are delicious as is, but if you find yourself with one of the tarter varieties just add a little sugar. And that’s it. No ice, they are to be served at room temperature. These orange juice drinks are sold in bars through-out Italy, it’s a delicious tradition that we hope will kick off in the uk.

And if you want your juice with a little more fizz, why not try a cocktail:

The Venus Blush cocktail: with thanks to iprosecco.it

Ingredients

4 parts prosecco– one part of blood orange juice – one part of Aperol  – ice – soda –  a slice of orange to garnish.

Preparation

Fill a tall glass with ice. Add the prosecco, the orange juice and Aperol, close with a spritz of soda on top. Serve straight away with the garnish of orange. 

We have these blood oranges in stock now, but they won’t be around for much longer, so do come in and grab yours now. Making a spremuta d’arancia or cocktail is only one of the many things you can do with this fruit; they are also great for cakes, candies and fizzy salads.

Do let us know if you have your own way of using blood oranges, we’d love to hear from you.

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