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Messy Chef in Portsmouth have expanded their menu from serving lunch and dinner to now serving tradtional Bangladeshi breakfast

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00:15 Hello, I'm Ivan. I'm one of the co-founders and director of Messy Chef.

00:19 I'm Suleman Rahman. I'm also a co-founder and owner of Messy Chef.

00:24 Excellent. And yeah, tell us a little bit about this place then, please.

00:28 So, here we have at Festing Road is our, pretty much our humble beginning of our Messy Chef restaurant,

00:35 our own brick and mortar. We've opened this 2022 November.

00:40 And, you know, we've got like fair few seating. We have converted this Indian takeaway into quite a cozy little restaurant

00:52 for, you know, open for families and, you know, even real outbacks.

00:58 What we're serving here is premium quality fast food.

01:04 Basically, what we're trying to serve here is good tasting food.

01:09 It's going to be very messy as we have a recipe for molten cheese, which goes on all our products.

01:19 And that makes it very messy, but very tasty as well.

01:23 We started off in outside in as basically a little background of me and my partner.

01:29 We are not from the hospitality background as such. We love food.

01:33 We know what tastes good. We know what ingredients works and how to provide fresh food.

01:40 But we never actually had our own restaurant before.

01:46 So basically our burgers are always made from fresh meat.

01:50 Our meats are high standard 28 day matured halal beef meat, 100% British.

01:57 And we never freeze our products. Our meat is never frozen. Our buns are never frozen.

02:04 And another trick we use is that we don't actually have any secret recipe on our burgers.

02:11 It's very simple, salt, pepper, right amount of salt, pepper and very high quality British beef.

02:18 And all our product comes with our own recipe of sauces and our own recipe of molten cheese.

02:27 The vibe over here, I would say it's very casual. It's very friendly.

02:31 You know, it's not, I wouldn't say it's a fine dining vibe.

02:35 I would say it's more like a casual premium quality fast food where you get the highest quality food

02:42 and the most friendliest possible service.

02:46 It doesn't mean that you get food thrown at you.

02:50 It's more homely. We take care of you. The staff will take care of you.

02:55 We will take care of the food. Every customer will be treated equally.

02:59 It's not differentiation between races or genders or sexuality or orientation or anything like that.

03:07 Over here, everyone is treated as equally as possible.

03:11 Everyone is welcome, even people with doze, even people with cancer.

03:15 We welcome everyone over here to have the best possible experience.

03:20 We're also supporting breast cancer as well through our pig burger.

03:25 Yeah, tell us a little bit about that. How did that idea come about?

03:30 So, you know, like my grandfather passed away from breast cancer.

03:34 And, you know, I always have this little soft spot.

03:39 And this is something that he picked up on. And he said, why don't we do something about it?

03:45 And, you know, what if we express it through our burgers, our food?

03:51 So we came up with this idea that, OK, there will be a pig bun.

03:56 And, you know, for every pig bun, so we will charge a pound extra for that burger.

04:02 And that pound will go towards that breast cancer research and care.

04:10 And this is one of the things that we have created awareness.

04:14 And a lot of people are responding to that. A lot of people to show support.

04:19 They change their buns, pig buns for every burger that they have it to show their support to breast cancer research and care.

04:29 Yes, I'll go to item probably the entry level one would be our classic burger.

04:35 So that's one of the most popular burger at the moment that has a signature classic sauce and comes with double patties and a bun.

04:45 But that's like that's kind of like the whole message of this kind of like the home of the classic mess.

04:51 So that's the most popular burger. Our wings are very popular.

04:58 People love our wings. That comes in three different flavours, classic, hot and barbecue.

05:03 And also a loaded fries. Our loaded fries is quite different compared to the other dirty loaded fries that other people sell.

05:10 And what makes it different is obviously our own homemade sauces and our molten cheese.

05:15 We don't use grated cheese or anything like that. We melt down the cheddar into a nice little sauce.

05:21 It's all quite fresh and very fresh. Melted every day.

05:26 So, yeah, we started with the basic breakfast, the thali that we used to serve.

05:31 We used to have that back home in Bangladesh. This is a very authentic national food.

05:41 Very traditional, traditional Bengali breakfast for a special price for these students.

05:48 We are happy to feed them with those traditional food, get them nostalgic, come and have that vibe,

05:56 come and enjoy that environment of like, you know, that they had that in their country,

06:02 you know, gathering with their friends, enjoying a bit of traditional food and have a laugh.

06:06 You know, that sort of vibe that we are trying to create every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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