Britain’s Biggest Restaurant Opens

Za Za Bazaar opened its doors on Tuesday to 2100 diners. The buffet style restaurant in Bristol is the largest restaurant in England.

Britain’s biggest restaurant threw open its doors today – serving up to 2,100 diners a night.

Za Za Bazaar – an all-you-can eat buffet in Bristol – will dish up over a ton of rice and nearly 5,000 chickens every week.

The 30,000 sq ft harbourside eatery can seat over 1,000 customers at a time, with two sittings per night.

But the 120 staff will have their work cut out – with over 8,000 dirty dishes to wash on a busy Saturday night.

It is the first of a new nationwide chain of eight restaurants, with Za Za Bazaar hoping to create 1,000 new jobs over the next 18 months.

The restaurant is styled on the street markets of the Far East but serves food from all four corners of the globe.

A team of 36 chefs and eight porters will serve up everything from Chinese, Indian and Tex-Mex to piri piri chicken, pasta, pizza and traditional British food.

There will also be salad, sushi and deli sections, an entire stand devoted to desserts, and a bar serving 300 different… continue reading

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Arkansas Cook Wins $25k for Beef Recipe

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Sheryl Little, an Arkansas home cook, won the National Beef Cook-Off and took home a prize of $25,000. She took the “Best of Beef” grand prize for her beef stir fry recipe.

Arkansas home cook with top sirloin steak, instant rice, a mango, a few vegetables and a creative flair recently walked away from the 2011 National Beef Cook-Off® with a winning recipe and $25,000 in her pocket. Sheryl Little won the 29th National Beef Cook-Off “Best of Beef” grand prize with her Vegetable-Mango Beef Stir Fry. Her original creation topped 19 other finalists from across the country.

The judges, a panel of esteemed food journalists and bloggers, raved about Little’s recipe because of its unique combination of fresh fruit and vegetables and grain ingredients – and her use of one of the 29 lean cuts of beef. In addition, the dish is an excellent source of fiber, protein, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, iron, selenium, zinc and choline.

“It’s exciting to see cooks today combining healthy ingredients – including lean beef – from a variety of food groups and coming up with fun and delicious creations,” says South Dakota Beef Cook-Off Chairwoman Karla Pazour. Pazour, who raises cattle with her family near Pukwana, said CattleWomen organizers of the South Dakota Beef Cook-Off, held each year in conjunction with the state fair, are noticing similar trends in the… continue reading

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