A cafe in Bury has launched a giant full English breakfast challenge with a whopping 34 items and over 3,500 calories.
Loaded with masses of sausages, bacon rashes, fried eggs, hash browns, black pudding, beans, tomatoes, and mushrooms, the ginormous breakfast includes everything you’d expect to find on a proper fry-up as well as some extra surprises.
With four pieces of toast and two pieces of fried bread, four hash browns, four fried eggs, four bacon rashers, four sausages, and two pieces of spam, it’s no mean feat.
And that’s even before you add on the burger and chips.
The eye-poppingly large breakfast challenge has been created by Gusto Deli in Walshaw and must be finished within half an hour for customers to successfully complete it.
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If they do manage to clear their plate in that time, they get the whole lot for free – but so far no one has been able to manage it, including a friend of the owner’s who inspired the challenge to begin with.
Owners have said that the fry-up “doesn’t look like much on the pictures, but when it’s in front of you it’s massive.”
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Posting the challenge on Facebook, the cafe’s owners wrote: “Our very good friend has been asking for a food challenge.
“So yesterday we set him one.
“This had 4 sausage, 4 bacon, 4 eggs, 4 hash browns, 4 black pudding, 2 spam, 1 burger, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, chips, 4 toast and 2 fried bread.
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“Unlucky he couldn’t finish.
“Could you, if you fancy a food challenge and think you could finish it you get the meal for free, £25 if you fail.
“Must be finished within 30 minutes.”
Whilst customers have so far been unsuccessful in finishing it, there appear to be plenty of people in the comment section who think they could give the challenge a good go.
One person wrote: “How long have I got to smash it? Looks like a lighter version of my fry up”
New disco-inspired cocktail bar promising ‘Manchester’s biggest happy hour’ to open this autumn
Daisy Jackson
A new bar is set to open on Deansgate soon, promising an intoxicating combination of ‘cocktails, dreams and disco’.
This is Simmons, a wildly successful name from down in London, and it’s finally making its way up north to Manchester.
You can’t miss the location – they’ve slapped a gigantic mirror, daubed with neon pink writing, outside the site where the bar is being built.
Now the capital’s go-to party palace, Simmons will bring the ‘biggest happy hour’ in Manchester to Deansgate when it opens.
That means two-for-one cocktails, £2.50 spirit and mixers (or £5 doubles), £3 beer and wine, and £12 bottles of wine, plus cocktail teapots for £15.
The Simmons happy hour runs until 9pm Sunday to Friday, while on Saturdays it’s two-for-one cocktails and £15 teapots until 9pm.
The brand is famed for its kitsch, colourful interiors, with hot pink neon lights, bold wallpapers, and always a disco ball.
There are already 22 locations across London but this will be the first Simmons bar to open outside the capital.
On their website, Simmons says: “Hi my name’s Simmons, I’m well known for being the best bar group in London (and probably the world).
“I’m a late night cocktail bar offering you the perfect place for after work drinks or a cheeky dance, people like me because I look real good and sell nice drinks.
“People say I am sexy and good looking but I just shrug it off and don’t let my ego get too big, no one likes a show off.
“I am located in lots of different places across London, I can be hired out for private parties and I have a notoriously eclectic musical taste; ranging from hip-hop, to disco, to funk, to 80’s, to 90’s to classic party bangers!
“Come check me out, sip on a cocktail in a teacup and play on my SEGA Megadrive.”
Sneak peeks of the work taking place in Manchester show that the former Botanist site will be transformed with Deansgate’s biggest dance floor, surrounded by raised stages for dancing.
If you head down to Deansgate and scan the QR code outside the bar (or, you know, just click this link) you can secure your spot on the list for their free bar launch parties.
Yeah, we said free bar.
Simmons will open this autumn on Deansgate in Manchester city centre.
Legendary chef Rick Stein praises ‘trendy’ Manchester restaurant on BBC Breakfast
Daisy Jackson
Rick Stein has just appeared on BBC Breakfast and given a massive shout-out to Manchester favourite restaurant Bundobust.
The celebrity chef was on the popular breakfast show to talk about his latest series, Rick Stein’s Food Stories, but made a special effort to celebrate this much-loved restaurant.
Bundobust was founded in Leeds a whole decade ago, but now also has two restaurants (including an on-site brewery) in Manchester too.
And Rick Stein is apparently a big fan, describing Bundobust as ‘really trendy’, The Hoot Leeds reports.
The 77-year-old chef and presenter was chatting to Charlie Stayt and Nina Warhurst.
He said: “One other place in Leeds actually, a place called Bundobust, where they’re serve craft beer and vegetarian Gujarati Indian food.
“I particularly like that place because it’s not like the sort of old-fashioned Indian restaurants with flock wallpaper and all that.
“It’s really trendy and a bit sort of…”
At this point Nina jumps in to help him with a suggestion of ‘Hipster?’
Legendary chef Rick Stein praises ‘trendy’ Manchester restaurant on BBC Breakfast. Credit: BBC BreakfastInside Bundobust Brewery in Manchester, which Rick Stein has just shouted out. Credit: The Manc Group
“Hipster is exactly the word!” Rick said. “It’s a word I don’t use much at my age.”
Bundobust has quickly spotted its star turn on BBC Breakfast (probably helped by hundreds of us sliding into their DMs).
Bundobust shared a clip of Rick Stein and wrote: “Catching hipster allegations on BBC Breakfast!! Almost spat out our chai. (It’s Rick though, we’ll allow it)”
The Indian restaurant opened a decade ago on Mill Hill in Leeds and its success has grown and grown, now also having two restaurants (and a brewery) in Manchester as well as a spot in Liverpool.
It’s the second time Rick has heaped praise on a Manchester restaurant, having previously said that Higher Ground is one of his favourites in the entire UK.
It’s a firm favourite for us here at The Manc – love you forever Bundo.