The Parisian-Middle Eastern-inspired Maray restaurant from Liverpool and South Indian street food heroes Bundobust are collaborating on a new menu. The food clash will happen for two weeks only from May 9.
The new menu will be on offer at the Bundobust at Piccadilly and the Bundobust Brewery on Oxford Street, as well as Maray on Bold Street in Liverpool. The new dishes will meld together favourites from both the cult restaurants.
Bundobust’s famous okra fries have been renamed Jazzy Fries, and come topped with tahini, tamarind, spring onion and chilli, and a trio of harissa, zhug and tahini dipping sauces. Meanwhile the vada pav, the fried potato patty, is now the Valafel Pav, swapping out the potato for Maray’s falafel.
Elsewhere, Maray’s signature dish the Disco Cauliflower - the whole head of a cauliflower covered in tahini, yoghurt, harissa, chermoula and pomegranate - will now combine with the Bundobust bhel puri, to form the Disco Bhel Puri, comprising a broken Mumbai samosa with caramelised cauliflower, flaked almonds and pomegranate.
The menu also features a halloumi tikka, which comes dressed with sour cherry jam, dukkah and sumac. Diners can either order the dishes separately, or as a combo for two, with all the dishes together.
The two restaurants are also adding a charity element, with £1 from each Valafel Pav and £2 from each combo order going to Manchester non-profit organisation Eat Well MCR, which provides free meals for those in food poverty across the city.
Maray is soon to open its first site outside Liverpool, with its restaurant on Brazennose Street just off Albert Square currently under construction. Bundobust is also poised to open a new site in York.
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