Nando’s has released its first ever restaurant sauce collaboration, Peri Peri Saka, created by the professional football player Bukayo Saka. Launching today, the sauce fuses the Arsenal player’s favourite flavours with the restaurant’s Peri-Peri staple, promoted with a film and bottle design by Reuben Dangoor.
Spotted in London in the past week, there were elusive billboards featuring a still from the film and a teaser of the bottles illustration, leaving passers by intrigued. Now unleashed as a limited edition sauce, Nando’s continue to play on the footballer’s connection to the restaurant and heat; from his nickname Little Chilli (given to him by the former Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang), his cameo in the Nando’s UK This Must Be The Place television ad of last year, to the restaurant previously hosting his father’s birthday. “I’ve been going to Nando’s since I was little so to have my own Peri-Peri sauce in every restaurant in the country is quite mad,” says the footballer in a press release.
The short film, Yes Chef, reflects the hands-on involvement the winger had in its creation; Saka plays head chef and oversees the unique mix and fusion at every stage, before saying “it needs a little kick”. Reaching into his chilli jar he creates the perfect mix – smoky BBQ, tomato and Peri Peri – that is, Peri Peri Saka. The restaurant has described the sauce as “sweet and fiery with a little (free) kick”.
