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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd North of England editor

Chefs defend Manchester’s food scene after criticism from footballer’s wife

İlkay Gündoğan and Sara Arfaoui in Manchester city centre.
The Man City captain, İlkay Gündoğan, and Sara Arfaoui in Manchester city centre. Photograph: Allan Bentley/Cavendish Press

A Manchester City footballer’s wife has been told to get out more and to stop choosing restaurants on the basis of their Instagram appeal, after claiming food in her new northern English home town was “horrible” and “all frozen”.

Sara Arfaoui, an Italian model who married the Man City captain, İlkay Gündoğan, earlier this year, said in an Instagram Q&A that she had “tried so bad to find a good restaurant” but that Mancunian eateries were focused on “making money with drinks and shot[s] like a nightclub” instead of providing quality food.

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