Tuesday food hero: Anthony Bourdain

Here at Sillis, one of our all-time food heroes has got to be the legendary Anthony Bourdain. Pretty much the funniest, grittiest tale about food and life as a chef, Kitchen Confidential is, as the man himself terms it, a book about his “adventures in the culinary underbelly.”

Anthony's also famously tried warthog's bum... fancy that on the specials for next week?

Dating his obsession with food back to the first time he tried oysters in France, Bourdain describes life as a chef as one mingled with misfits, drugs and sex. Whilst we’d say our days here at Sillis might not be quite as exciting as that, Bourdain’s memoir/expose certainly sheds light on what life is like working in the world’s top restaurants like New York’s Michelin-starred Brasserie Les Halles.

Anthony Bourdain – known for eating a whole cobra (with its heart still beating!)  in Vietnam on his TV show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, claims that the most disgusting thing he’s ever eaten is… a Chicken McNugget. Well Anthony, you’re welcome to come to Sillis any time, and we’re pretty sure our Halloween specials will be a damn sight more tasty than an entire cobra, or indeed a chicken nugget.

Check out the book on Amazon here.

He’s also pretty funny! Mooch on over to his Twitter.

Halloween specials!

Fancy a terrifying treat this lunchtime?

Guaranteed to be a box office hit this Halloween, torture your tastebuds with our brand-spankin' new sandwich of the week, SAW.

Spicy-delicious Cajun steak with cheese, handmade chilli mayo and our very own scotch bonnet relish, all slapped onto one of our gorgeous salt 'n' pepper sticks.

Our poster-boy for the week.

Not for the faint-of-heart, scotch bonnet chillis (also known as "the ball of fire") are renowned to be the world's hottest pepper, which leads us to the other specials for this week:

Friday the 13th

Seriously spicy (and definitely nicey!) scotch bonnet chicken served hot with cheese encona mayo.

Chucky

Tandoori steak, chicken and cheese served with tandoori mayo.

So grab your trike and get down to Sillis this week for a spooky sarnie!

Sillis Weekend Tips

The five-step guide to a Sillis night in:

1.       Get your bum down to Tesco. Purchase 2 bottles of wine, preferably on offer – 2 for a tenner. Maybe one red and one white?

2.       Go home, telly on.

3.       Enjoy!

Have a great weekend everyone! And don’t forget everything you need for your hangover cure is right here at Sillis:

THE HANGOVER CURE CLUB £4.50

Crispy bacon, butchers’ sausage, fried plantain, black pudding, fried egg, tomato relish and cheese all on a gorgeous freshly-baked salt and pepper stick. Sorted!

It's all for the love of music: what does music mean to you?

Music plays a major role in everything we do at Sillis! It’s basically our salvation… This week we’ve been absolutely loving one of our all-time favourite DJs, the legendary D&B mogul Andy C’s most recent podcast. Check it out here. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have been doing!

He's spotted one of our tasty sarnies... obviously.

Andy’s positive, uplifting soulful house helps us to feel creative and happy; it gets the juices flowing on those days we all have now and then, when you might not really be feeling it. Tunes like these basically stop us all here from going crazy during the mad busy mornings!

So, what does music mean to you? And what have you been bopping your lovely heads to this week? Let us know on Facebook or Tweet us!

Adam Richman, we salute you.

Here at Sillis there’s one new TV show we really can’t wait for… Adam Richman’s Best Sandwich in America. In case you haven’t heard of it yet (isn’t everyone as crazy about sandwiches as we are?), Adam is the guy behind the hugely addictive and often quite repulsive cult series Man V Food.

Quite clearly an absolute hero.

Reinforcing American obesity stereotypes wherever he goes, Adam has for the past two years been bombarding the Good Food channel with doughnuts the size of a penny farthing’s front wheel, burgers that look more like bean bags and pizzas which could quite legitimately be mistaken for Twister mats. And he ploughs through it all with a smile on his face, rarely beaten by any mammoth meal – despite often suffering with the fatal ‘meat sweats’. Now that’s the American spirit for you…

Nowadays Adam appears to have honed his focus and rather sensibly opted to use his hard-hitting journalistic prowess to explore the US of A’s sandwich offerings. Using ‘best’ synonymously with ‘largest,’ Adam spends each episode eating his way through more meat than we often thought possible of human beings. Adam’s chosen three sandwiches per region across ten regions to compete for the accolade of his personal favourite, and we just can’t get enough of it. Move over X Factor!

We don't know when this sandwich spectacular is coming to our screens here, but you can always catch Man V Food on Dave during the afternoon and evening (3-4 and 7-8).

Now we just need to tempt Adam over to the UK to see what he makes of Sillis!

Sandwich of the week

Are you wondering what to have for your lunch today?

Fret no more! Drumroll please... it's Sillis' sandwich of the week! Here to cure all your luncheon-related indecision. This week we're channelling Dallas with our gorgeous Texan Crunch!

Howdy! This lunch time I'll be crunchin' & munchin' on a Sillis, so don your Stetson hat and get involved in some silliness.

Halal-friendly crunchy fried chicken with our special Texan mayo and homemade tomato relish salad all served on a freshly-baked and toasted salt and pepper stick.

Now if that doesn't get your tastebuds jiggling you're just too hard to please I'm afraid! So come on down to Sillis and let us cure the Monday blues by spicing up your lunch time!

Get involved!

Hello and a huge welcome to the brand spanking new Sillis Sandwiches blog! Things have been moving pretty fast for us this week; our amazing new website is now online and we’re all really excited about it! Check it out here. We’re gonna be letting you know what’s new at Sillis all the time through the marvellous medium of this blog so make sure you check it out regular-like for our ever-changing specials boards, sandwiches of the week, what we’re up to cake-wise and everything else you need to know about the wonderful world of glorious breadstuffs oozing with your favourite edibles.

Dee-licious tandoori chicken wrap - get in my belly

  

Here at Sillis we’re all about making your lunchtime more fun! Full stomachs mean full minds and full hearts and that’s why we make each and every one of our sandwiches, cakes, hot meals and gorgeous cups of coffee with love and passion every time. If you’re looking for something a bit different in South Manchester and Stockport, Sillis is the place for you! Check out our amazing menu…

And if in doubt, don’t hesitate to call us on 0161 947 9928 and one of our fantastic staff will be more than happy to chat your right ear off down the dog and bone. So come on and GET INVOLVED.