Café Challenges Diners to Demolish 10,000 Calorie Stack of 12 Fluffy Pancakes

A cafe has challenged diners to demolish a huge stack of 12 fluffy pancakes.

Diners have just 15 minutes to devour the tower at Polo Bar.

If they complete the challenge their meal is free.

Winners will also have their picture proudly placed on the wall of fame.

It comes as Brits will tuck into pancakes today (13 Feb) to mark Shrove Tuesday.

But those who don’t make it will have to fork out £40 and hand it over to the restaurant.

The challenge comes with three options of toppings.

The ‘Royale’ pancake stack comes with thick layers of cream and berries.

But there is also a cookies and cream option and a Banoffee Lotus biscuit edition.

The berries and cream stack has a whopping 9,500 calories.

But the Lotus and Banoffee challenge has just over 10,000 – five times the recommended daily amount.

The eatery is located right outside Liverpool Street Station in Central London.

Polo Cafe is London’s only 24-hour cafe.

The cafe suggests pancake fans pre-book ahead of the challenge to give the kitchen time to prep.

Polo Cafe even has their own ‘pancake man’ in the kitchen dedicated to whipping them up.

Owner, Philip Inzani says four to six people a week come in to try the challenge.

But, there are far more losers than winners – with just one person smashing the challenge every three weeks on average.

Phillip said: “It’s interesting to see different ways of people doing the challenge.

”We have more losers than winners, 50% come incredibly close but the rest have no hope.

”Everybody is different and there’s no rules when it comes to it.

”I have noticed that the successful ones drink quite a lot of water.

”When you have the stack in front of you and you see the height of it, it’s easy to get panicked.

”The key is pacing yourself at the beginning.”

At the top of Polo Cafe’s Hall of Fame is world-record-breaking Leah Shutkever.

The competitive eater wolfed down the stack in four minutes and 0.4 seconds.

Seconds behind is competitive eater Max Stanford who smashed the plate in four minutes and 36 seconds.

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