Belles Hot Chicken unveil special menu Cheetos Flamin Hot with crusted mac and cheese balls
Cheetos Flamin’ Hot have such a cult following fans petitioned to get them to Australia and they’re finally here, so this Sydney chicken shop has designed a limited time menu to celebrate.
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Restaurants are always clamouring to use the hottest, newest produce that lands on the market, be it the return of a seasonal vegetable or a particularly lush harvest or — Cheetos?
To mark Cheetos Flamin’ Hot landing in Oz, Belles Hot Chicken owner Morgan McGlone has crafted three dishes championing the spicy snack – The Flamin’ Hot Chicken Sandwich, The Hill Billy Taco with Cloudy Bay Clams and Flamin’ Hot mac and cheese bites.
McGlone, who is expecting a bub with 10 William Street head chef Trisha Greentree, takes this menu very seriously and has even drink-paired the dishes with a BK Wines biodynamic natural Chardonnay from South Australia, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and the Prince’s Lemonade cocktails.
And safe to say it’s probably the first time the words “then we threw a whole f**king heap of Cheeto dust in” have been uttered at a menu preview.
To say Cheetos Flamin’ Hot (and no, this is not an ad) have a cult following would be an understatement.
To get them to Australia, a petition with 250,000 signatures circulated the internet.
On Monday it was announced that Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria would direct a Cheetos feature film titled Flamin’ Hot, backed by Fox Searchlight and Franklin Entertainment.
The film is a biopic on Richard Montanez, a Mexican immigrant and janitor at Frito-Lay in the US who invented the Flamin’ Hot Cheeto – it sounds a little like Good Will Hunting, but with Cheetos.
The menu is only on at Belles locations for three weekends, but don’t expect to see McGlone hanging around – he left for Europe yesterday to hang out with the Gorillaz and shortly after will be doing a guest stint at a restaurant in Copenhagen.
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