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We won't let Brexit beat us!
You may heard about further new regulations getting implemented last week which make it more difficult and costly to import food products from Spain. We will not be beaten!
We have just restocked with the out of this world coffee from Cafe Saula from Barcelona and this week sees a few pallets of our glorious crisps from El Valle in Alicante, including some superb new almonds. Read all about them below. The even better news is that the extra costs of importing we are absorbing and holding their already great prices.
This week we had another fabulous living well and healthy tapas night led by Peter, including live cooking demos. We will have more later this year. And, we are going to do some via Zoom, to allow our many customers all over the UK to take part and try some sensational healthy food and learn a little, too. Our next newsletter will have more information. And before you go, check out our request for a little help, below. Thank you.
Peter, Elaine & the team xx
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Glorious new products from Snacks El Valle
We have a brilliant range of Spanish crisps and snacks. Many of our crisps come from Snacks El Valle of Villena in Alicante province. They have been busy creating new flavours, and we are the first outside of Spain to have them.
Furious Spicy flavoured crisps - a hot chilli with a hint of lime and an equally superb Salt and Vinegar crisp (with a Spanish twist - think Escabeche). They arrive this week for dispatch towards the end o the week. Prices held too. They are out of this world. Give them a try by clicking on the links above.
If that wasn't enough, we ow have have El Valle's fried Comuna almonds. Comuna almonds are also known as Valencian almonds. They are quite simply out of this world. A glorious flavour form expert roasting, gently fried in a blend of olive oil and sunflower oil, liberally dusted with sea salt and another flavoured with Mediterranean herbs (Rosemary, Oregano and Thyme). The links will take you there. Available in the deli as well. And they are a sensational price too, for exceptional quality
And because we love spoiling you, we have the best snacks to com out of Spain from Baturrica of Zaragoza. Kikones (giant corn kernels with a savoury salt) and Habas Picantes - crispy baby broad beans with a spicy coating. Absolutely perfect with a cold beer, wine, sherry or vermouth. They have been incorrectly dated in the factory - they should have a 12 month best before date, but they came out with a 6 month print. we have added stickers to correct these. Rest assured they are perfect and glorious.
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Tio Pepe Fino En Rama 2024 is now in!
Always eagerly awaited by wine connoisseurs the world over, each year Gonzalez Byass release a very special limited edition of Tio Pepe. Unfiltered, straight from the barrel in Jerez, it is called En Rama. Each year, it is completely different but always exceptional.
As with previous releases, Tio Pepe Fino En Rama 2024 is bottled in its most natural and delicate state; unfiltered and unclarified.
This is the pick of the winemaker with a few barrels only selected each year so it truly is the best of the best – clean, pure and bone dry. Wonderfully rich and fragrant with a yeasty, nutty nose and a fabulously rich and complex palate with citrus notes and a lingering spicy finish – bursting with notes of green apple skin. We have a very limited allocation and when it’s gone it’s gone. Available in both 750ml and 375ml bottles. Check it out here
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Good Food Guide Nominations- we need your help!
The Good Food Guide is still the UK's most important and influential food book and their awards (after Michelin) are the most influential. They make a huge difference and give an enormous boost to those listed in their guide. Since we opened Lunya, we have always been listed (for 14 years) and we were twice winners of heir North West restaurant of the year.
The awards are nomination based. We need your help. Would you mind nominating us. It would make a massive difference. Each restaurant needs nominating, so if you have the time, please do one for Lunya in Hanover Street and one for Lunyalita in Albert Dock. It has the potential to make a really positive difference to our trade in these very challenging times. You can follow this link to complete the short nomination process. It would mean so much to us. You also have the chance to win a £250 restaurant voucher. Thank you x
Follow this link to make a nomination
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Eurovision themed Food, Drink & Music Quiz - 31st May 2024.
Our monthly food, drink and music quizzes are always sell outs! Our next one is on Friday 31st May 2024 at Lunyalita. Food and drink to taste and answer questions on; live music round with 10 songs (all Eurovision hits) played flamenco style and a great all-round party atmosphere. Come in your best glam gear for extra prizes, sing along, dance along and show us your moves. This is a great party night. Get a group of friends, family or work colleagues together for the best quiz night going. There is no charge for the quiz night, as such. Each team member pays a £2 quiz fee. Half of this forms the winning prize and the other half goes to our charity of the month.
Read all about it here (limited tables now available)
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Paella & Sangria Tasting - 20th June
A first for us and something for paella lovers. We are bringing a taste of the Spanish summer to the Albert Dock. If it is a lovely warm, balmy evening we'll be outside on the sun terrace; if not, we'll be in our lovely upstairs dining room overlooking the dock.
You will get to try a range of different paellas including a classic Paella Valenciana, an Arroz Negro and a Fideua, plus a range of accompanying tapitas and a selection of Sangria including the classic red wine sangria, white wine sangria, cava sangria and a white wine sangria. We'll even show you how it's made. This will be a fabulous fun and informal night with live Spanish guitar music. Bring your dancing shows too!
Price is just £59 per person (including all food and drink). Full details are here
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Sensational new wines in!
We care so much about the range of food and drink we source. We never stop searching Spain for the very best. We have really excelled this time. Just check out some of our new range - all at very competitive prices.
Fino Vina Corrales Pago Balbaina
Quite a mouthful, but this is an out of this world Fino sherry produced by Peter Sissek. Peter Sissek, is the genius behind Pingus wines (and a whole host more) that sell for well over a thousand pounds a bottle. He has turned his eye to sherry. Already receiving the highest ever score for a Fino from Wine Advocate, this has blown us away. Seemingly like a cross between an exceptional white wine and a fino sherry. It is a bright lemon-gold colour with striking salty aromas, with lime rind, candied orange, herbs and chalky minerality. The palate is beautifully balanced between the saline flor flavours and straw, marzipan, cheese strings and rock salt. Fresh, with a tangy, bone dry, nimble finish. We need to stop there, or we will run out of space. Try it. At just £39.95, you will get one of the world's finest wines.
Raíces Prieto Picudo, DO León
I have been searching for a Prieto Picudo wine for over 14 years. Since first trying it on a trip to Leon before Lunya opened, I was utterly captivated by it. And now we have managed to get a supply into the UK! This is deep in colour and flavour, thanks to the intensity of the wonderful Prieto Picudo grape, indigenous to the León region. A deep ruby red colour with violet reflections, the wine is intense and complex on the nose, with delicate raspberry and liquorice aromas. It is gentle, light and structured at the same time with freshness and acidity. Fabulous with pretty much any tapas. Simply outstanding.
Campestral Natural Tinto, D.O. Cadíz
A great value natural wine from Southern Spain; a blend of Shiraz, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot. Deep garnet in colour with ripe red and black fruits of raspberry, blackberry, blueberry and blackcurrant to the fore. A lighter, drier red wine with a striking elegant, silkiness, which keeps giving on the palate, lasting for nearly as long as a Ken Dodd gig! A superb example of a natural wine and will please the greatest of cynics.
Hacienda Albae Viognier, D.O. La Mancha
Beautifully intense on the nose with floral aromas standing out with notes of peach and apricot. On the palate, it stands out for its excellent gentle acidity and lingering finish. An outstanding example of this glorious grape - light and delicate and a great accompaniment to seafood and perfect to sip on its own
Alcohol free Spanish wine
Plus, we have some glorious new alcohol free wines. A first for us. We have always thought that the alcohol free wines available were disgusting. But technology has moved on and we have found a winery in Spain producing some seriously good wine. We have their red, white and cava. Perfect if you don't want alcohol, or are driving or can't have it because of medication or health reasons. These taste like the real thing. Check them out here.
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Two more months of lunch price drops!
Our best value lunch menus ever - prices dropped by up to 25%!
As we have mentioned over the last few months, we have a theory which we are testing out and we hope that you won't let us down! We have dropped our lunch menu price at Hanover street by 25%. It was due to go up to £19.95, but for a month or so, we are running it at just £15.95. The price is from nearly 6 years ago. We are trying this theory that if we lower our price, more people will come and visit to take advantage of it. We don't think there is a better city centre deal around! Early results from the last two weeks are promising, we are seeing more people visiting over lunchtimes. we are doing this for the next two weeks and then reviewing. If it is working (lower prices, higher volume), we will make it a permanent feature. A wine-win!
So, if you are going out for lunch, come an pay us a visit for 3 tapas at just £15.95 at Hanover Street. Check out the new lunch menu here
Lunyalita Great Value Lunch Deals
At Lunyalita, we are trialling another lunch menu. A choice of tapa, patatas bravas or salad and a drink (wine/beer or soft drink) for just £15.95 (yes food and a drink!) or a glorious large sandwich and soup of the day for just £13.50. There's been no better time to visit Lunyalita at the Albert Dock. Check out the new Lunyalita lunch menu here
We hope our theory works. Lower prices means more visits. We are doing these offers for the next two weeks (much longer if they work and enough people come to enjoy them). Come and try!
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New Pre-Order Options at Hanover Street
We have an exciting new development. We have always offered Cochinillo (roast whole suckling pig) to order 48 hours in advance. We are extending this from next Thursday to include a 1KG Txuleton (huge bone-on rib steak from ex-dairy cattle in Galicia and the Basque Country), including chips and padron peppers, plus our whole Moritz chicken - a whole chicken roasted over a can of Moritz beer, served whole at the table. All available any day of the week, but have to be ordered 48 hours in advance. Nowhere else in the UK, offers such fabulous options. They are brilliant for special occasions and larger groups).
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Just a reminder that we are now dog friendly
Just a reminder that in both restaurants, we welcome well behaved dogs with their well behaved owners! We love to make a fuss of your pooch and may even have some Serrano ham scraps for them, too!
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2024 Events Programme
Book your place on your favourite on enow. Places sell out very quickly! We are famous for our events. We have a lot coming up for the rest of the year. Treat yourself, or buy a place as a gift - they make wonderful presents. Check out the details below. All will be held in the picturesque Lunyalita, overlooking the water in the Royal Albert Dock. Perfect to book and forward on as a gift. Click here for the full list of 2024 events - we have over 30. Here are some happening over the next few months
Spanish Food, Drink & Music Quiz - Eurovision themed – 31st May 2024
This one is on Friday 31st May 2024 at Lunyalita. Food and drink to taste and answer questions on; live music round with 10 songs (all Eurovision hits themed, played flamenco style and a great all-round party atmosphere. Come in your best Eurovision gear for extra prizes, sing along and show us your moves. This is a great party night. Get a group of friends, family or work colleagues together for the best quiz night going. There is no charge for the quiz night, as such. Each team member pays a £2 quiz fee. Half of this forms the winning prize and the other half goes to our charity of the month.
A first for us and something for paella lovers. We are bringing a taste of the Spanish summer to the Albert Dock. If it is a lovely warm, balmy evening we'll be outside on the sun terrace; if not, we'll be in our lovely upstairs dining room overlooking the dock. You will get to try a range of different paellas including a classic Paella Valenciana, an Arroz Negro and a Fideua, plus a range of accompanying tapitas and a selection of Sangria including the classic red wine sangria, white wine sangria, cava sangria and a white wine sangria. We'll even show you how it's made. This will be a fabulous fun and informal night with live Spanish guitar music. Bring your dancing shows too! £59 a place.
Our ever popular quizzes - always a sell-out. This one is on Friday 28th June 2024 at Lunyalita. Food and drink to taste and answer questions on; live music round with 10 songs from the 60's played flamenco style and a great all-round party atmosphere – think Beatles, Yardbirds, Monkees, Supremes etc. Come in your best 60'soutfits for extra prizes, sing along and show us your moves. This is a great party night. Get a group of friends, family or work colleagues together for the best quiz night going.
Come and join us for a fabulous evening that showcases the very best of Spanish food and drink culture, all accompanied by live Flamenco music. An opportunity to try a range of superb Spanish drinks including: wine, beer, vermouth, sherry, spirits and cocktails, all carefully matched with a range of Pintxos and Spanish streetfood. San Sebastian comes to Liverpool! A relaxed social evening with exquisite food served alongside the very best Spanish beers. complemented by our live Flamenco guitarist, Alex McKenzie, playing a range of contemporary music, Flamenco style. What more could you want? £59 a place.
This quiz is on Friday 26th July 2024 at Lunyalita. Food and drink to taste and answer questions on; live music round with 10 Rock Anthem themed songs. Think everything from Queen to Quo to Bon Jovi. This is a great party night. Get a group of friends, family or work colleagues together for the best quiz night going. There is no charge for the quiz night, as such. Each team member pays a £2 quiz fee. Half of this forms the winning prize and the other half goes to our charity of the month.
Spanish Brandy is sensational. Come and join us for a fabulous evening of all things brandy, paired with a superb selection of tapitas. You will hear about how brandy is made, taste a variety of brandies from bar brandies, right through to a break-the-bank 100 year old brandy and have a guided tasting of these award winning brandies from our brilliant range, as well as try a variety of matching tapitas. This is a fun, informal and relaxed evening to enjoy 5 great brandies in the best of company and delightful surroundings. These nights are great fun and great value. £65 a place.
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And finally .....
Thank you again so much for all your incredible support, especially during these very tough times. Like all hospitality businesses, right now, we are in a fight for survival. Our team really appreciate the support you give us.
From all of us at Lunya, thank you and hopefully see you soon or we're packing one of your internet orders
Peter & Elaine & Churros and the whole Lunya Team x
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