200-course tasting menu to be served in London

Food and drink alchemists Bompas & Parr have created a 200-course tasting menu, which they will serve to eight brave diners over the course of 24 hours.

As reported by Hot Dinners, the duo has teamed up with chefs from Story, Chiltern Firehouse and Claridge’s among others for the feast, which takes place on 3 September.

Courses will be served every 7 minutes and 14 seconds. Each two-hour session is themed around a different colour: Yellow Breakfast, White Elevenses, Green Lunch, Blue Afternoon Snack, Purple Five o’clock Tiffin, Pink Dinner, Red Party Time, Orange Drunchies, Brown Blackout and the Multicolour Final Countdown.

Taking a multi-sensory approach, everything from sound and texture will be taken into account, with ingredients in the bite-sized dishes including blue lotus flower, fermented garlic, and truffle bubbles.

Tickets for the 24-hour event cost £2,000 via bespokeoffers.co.uk, but less greedy diners buy tickets for the ten two-hour slots where 20 dishes will be served.

The culinary marathon, dubbed “The 200 Club”, kicks off at 8am at The Factory on Tanner Street in Bermondsey, southeast London. Those hardy enough to make it through the 200 courses will be awarded a certificate and bequeathed with the title of “Ultra Diner”.

Bompas & Parr claim this is the longest tasting menu ever attempted. Last month the pair opened the world’s first breathable cocktail bar in Borough Market.