- Two cult London cheese restaurants are offering bottomless offers this August.
- At The Cheese Bar, all you can eat raclette can be yours for £9 ($11).
- And at sister conveyor belt restaurant Pick & Cheese, you can eat as many small plates of charcuterie and cheese as you like for £20 ($25) – or £10 ($12) on Mondays.
- The cheese industry has been left with vast quantities that need eating up before the end of the summer due to the coronavirus lockdown.
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The restaurant industry needs support right now.
The people need comfort food.
What could be more perfect then, than restaurants offering all you can eat cheese?
The man behind two cult cheesy eateries in London is launching the promotion in August to help support small scale cheese-makers.
At Pick & Cheese at Seven Dials Market, the famous conveyor belt restaurant, diners will be able to eat as much cheese and charcuterie as they can stomach for £20 ($25).
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The restaurant is also participating in the UK government's "Eat Out to Help Out" campaign, which means if you visit on a Monday, bottomless cheese will cost a mere £10 ($12).
Cheesy dishes on offer will include Rosary goats' cheese in a mini donut with rosemary honey, Spenwood with cherry and amaretto jam, and Fen Farm's Baron Bigod with marinated sweet garlic.
Plus there'll be charcuterie plates such as Crown & Queue's Devils Mortar and Tempus Food's achari salami.
At Mathew Carver's other restaurant, The Cheese Bar in Camden, every Wednesday will be "Bottomless Raclette" night, where diners can enjoy unlimited plates of hot melted Ogleshield cheese (which they say is an English version of Swiss Raclette cheese), served over Cornish new potatoes, Crown & Queue glazed ham, and cornichons.
There's a vegetarian option too, and the restaurant is also part of the government scheme, meaning the normal price of £18 ($23) will be a steal at £9 ($11).
The Ogleshield cheese is made by Jamie Montgomery, who said he was left with tons of Ogleshield cheese when the majority of orders destined for London's restaurants were cancelled during the coronavirus lockdown.
Much like in France, where people were told it was their "patriotic duty" to eat more cheese, the farmhouse cheese industry in the UK has been left with vast quantities of cheese that will go to waste if not consumed before the end of the summer.
Bottomless plates at Pick & Cheese will be available Friday to Monday through August, starting from Saturday, August 8, with dining time slots lasting one hour and 15 minutes.
At The Cheese Bar, bottomless raclette will be on offer every Wednesday in August, with each booking for a maximum of one hour and 30 minutes.
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