Will the Tony's Bistro Challenge be beaten this week?
American YouTuber Randy Santel: following a Bantry seafood onslaught with the Godfather Challenge at Tony's Bistro. Picture: Andy Gibson.
American competitive eater and YouTube personality Randy Santel has landed in Cork — and after clearing an eating challenge at Bantry's Brick Oven restaurant that saw him put away three kilogrammes of seafood boxty in just under 21 minutes last week, he's returning to the site of a previous triumph.
Tony's Bistro on North Main Street is known far and wide for dependable, simple, traditional fry-up fare — a celebrated place to end a long night-shift or nurse a hangover. It's also the home of the Godfather Challenge, a notorious competitive-eating task that strays from cosy, and into the 'danger zone'.
