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Curtains Shut, Chilli On: A Dark-Evening Ordering Menu for Melt
Takeaway Guides

Curtains Shut, Chilli On: A Dark-Evening Ordering Menu for Melt

When the sun clocks off at four, your takeaway order should change with it. A practical, slightly wry menu of Melt order archetypes for dark November evenings — from the hot-and-fast delivery to the collection run that gets you off the sofa.

Sauce Under the Desk: The Secret Santa Heat Check That Saves Office Harmony
Festive Feasting

Sauce Under the Desk: The Secret Santa Heat Check That Saves Office Harmony

A Secret Santa gift should raise a smile, not a fire alarm. Here is how to choose peri-peri presents by heat level, personality and the unwritten rules of office etiquette — from sauce sets to Melt vouchers.

The Napkin Doctrine: A First-Date Peri-Peri Order That Won't Ruin the Evening
Midweek Dining

The Napkin Doctrine: A First-Date Peri-Peri Order That Won't Ruin the Evening

Peri-peri is a brilliant first-date food until someone orders extra hot and spends the rest of the night sweating through the small talk. Here's a practical ranking of Melt orders by date-night safety, the sauces and sides that start quiet arguments, and a two-person spread that looks generous without turning the table into a crime scene.

Spuds First: Letting Peri-Peri Chips Run the Plate
Midweek Dining

Spuds First: Letting Peri-Peri Chips Run the Plate

Peri-peri chips keep getting treated like a polite afterthought when they should be the main event. Here is the blunt case for giving spuds top billing, ranking the chip styles that actually hold sauce, and fixing your Melt order maths.

Fridge Door Politics: The Peri-Peri Bottles That Actually Earn Their Keep
Sauce Reviews

Fridge Door Politics: The Peri-Peri Bottles That Actually Earn Their Keep

A no-nonsense audit of which Melt peri-peri sauces deserve prime fridge-door placement, which belong in the backup cupboard, and how to stop your condiment shelf becoming a museum of half-used bottles.

Before Noon, Bring the Heat: Why Peri-Peri Owns the Late Weekend Brunch
Lunch & Quick Bites

Before Noon, Bring the Heat: Why Peri-Peri Owns the Late Weekend Brunch

Brunch in the UK has got comfortable: eggs, avocado, another flat white. Peri-peri is the jolt it needs. Here is how to build a weekend late-riser order that wakes you up without wrecking the rest of the day.

Ditch the Saturday Scramble: Why Wednesday Owns the Peri-Peri Table
Midweek Dining

Ditch the Saturday Scramble: Why Wednesday Owns the Peri-Peri Table

Friday and Saturday get the glory, but Wednesday gives you the better table, the faster bird and a proper midweek reset. Here’s why the humble hump day deserves your peri-peri booking — plus a suggested order that balances heat, sides and value.

One Flame, Four Plates: The Peri-Peri Spread That Keeps Every Diner Happy
Sharing Boards

One Flame, Four Plates: The Peri-Peri Spread That Keeps Every Diner Happy

Ordering peri-peri for a mixed table can feel like a diplomatic mission. This 2026 guide maps a flame-grilled spread for vegetarians, coeliacs, kids and heat-shys without losing the main event.

Sink Trip Scale: Ranking Melt’s Orders by Mess, Not Machismo
Takeaway Guides

Sink Trip Scale: Ranking Melt’s Orders by Mess, Not Machismo

Some Melt orders are napkin-friendly. Others require a flannel and a forgiving audience. Here’s a blunt mess ranking of peri-peri favourites, plus which ones to order for a first date, an office lunch, or a sofa session where dignity is optional.

Small Plates, Small People: How to Order Peri-Peri for Kids Without the 6pm Standoff
Takeaway Guides

Small Plates, Small People: How to Order Peri-Peri for Kids Without the 6pm Standoff

Ordering flame-grilled chicken for children shouldn't feel like a hostage negotiation. Here's how to map Melt's heat levels to real ages, which sides do the rescuing when things go wrong, and how to build one spread the whole table can attack. Warm, blunt and built for a Friday night in.

The Eight-Person Basket: Ordering Peri-Peri for a Crowd Without a Group Chat Mutiny
Takeaway Guides

The Eight-Person Basket: Ordering Peri-Peri for a Crowd Without a Group Chat Mutiny

Feeding eight people from one takeaway order is less about chicken and more about diplomacy. Here’s how to run the group chat, pin down heat levels, and get everyone fed without a last-minute plain-chicken panic.

Gravy Is Not a Dipping Sauce: The Sunday Roast Deserves Its Own Lane
Festive Feasting

Gravy Is Not a Dipping Sauce: The Sunday Roast Deserves Its Own Lane

The Sunday roast is a British institution with its own rules: gravy in a jug, Yorkshire puddings tall, roasties crisp. So what happens when flame-grilled peri-peri chicken lands on the same plate? We ran a controlled hybrid test and found a border worth defending.

Keep the Chicken, Lose the Inferno: A Heat-Shy Guide to Peri-Peri
Takeaway Guides

Keep the Chicken, Lose the Inferno: A Heat-Shy Guide to Peri-Peri

Every peri-peri table has one: the person who loves the smell of flame-grilled chicken but breaks into a sweat at the sight of the hot sauce bottle. This is your practical, no-shame guide to ordering at Melt without torching your taste buds — and without losing the table politics.

Pound Per Person: Which Melt Orders Actually Feed You Properly
Takeaway Guides

Pound Per Person: Which Melt Orders Actually Feed You Properly

Everyone claims their order is the smart one. So we did the menu maths properly — price per person, chicken-to-side ratio, and how full you actually feel an hour later — to work out which Melt combos are genuine value and which are a trap with extra fries.

Pint Meets Bird: Which UK Beers Actually Tame the Flame
Match Night Entertaining

Pint Meets Bird: Which UK Beers Actually Tame the Flame

You have gone one heat level too far and there is a 6% IPA in your hand. We have all been there. Here is a blunt, pub-tested guide to which UK pints cool the burn, which ones pour petrol on it, and which ones quietly ruin a perfectly good bit of flame-grilled chicken.

One Chair, Full Spread: In Defence of Eating Peri-Peri Alone
Lunch & Quick Bites

One Chair, Full Spread: In Defence of Eating Peri-Peri Alone

A table for one should never mean a smaller appetite for heat. Here is the case for taking yourself out for peri-peri, the blueprint for a properly balanced solo order, and why nobody at the next table cares as much as you think.

Second Time Around: A Blunt Reheat Guide for Leftover Flame-Grilled Chicken
Takeaway Guides

Second Time Around: A Blunt Reheat Guide for Leftover Flame-Grilled Chicken

Cold peri-peri chicken is not a tragedy, it is a test of technique. Here is exactly how to bring last night's flame-grilled order back to something worth eating, from air fryer timings to the moment you should (and should not) add sauce.

Stop Ordering Boneless: A Peri-Peri Purist's Manifesto
Takeaway Guides

Stop Ordering Boneless: A Peri-Peri Purist's Manifesto

Boneless fillets are convenient, tidy and fundamentally boring. This is the case for bone-in peri-peri chicken: more flavour, better heat, proper texture and a Friday night takeaway that actually feels like one.

Desk Lunch Upgrade: Five Peri-Peri Orders That Wipe the Floor With a Meal Deal
Lunch & Quick Bites

Desk Lunch Upgrade: Five Peri-Peri Orders That Wipe the Floor With a Meal Deal

The supermarket meal deal is a Tuesday tradition for all the wrong reasons. Here are five Melt lunch orders that beat it on price, heat, satisfaction and messiness — plus ordering tips for every spice tolerance.

Steam, Sog and Sauce: A Blunt Audit of Which Melt Orders Actually Survive the Drive Home
Takeaway Guides

Steam, Sog and Sauce: A Blunt Audit of Which Melt Orders Actually Survive the Drive Home

Somewhere between the till and your front door, a brilliant takeaway quietly gives up. We ranked Melt's chicken, chips, sides and sauces by how well they hold heat, crunch and sauce integrity over a typical UK journey home — plus the exact wording to use when you order.