One restaurant’s giant mozzarella sticks went so viral on TikTok that it hired a dedicated chef just to make the fried cheese appetizer.
Winchesterbased in Tenerife, Spain, first gained attention for its giant cheese sticks in May 2023, SWNS news agency reported.
Since then, the restaurant has hired a chef to prepare the offer. It goes through more than 200 pounds mozzarella cheese a week to recreate the viral meal.
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The item is listed on The Winchester’s menu as “Giant Panko Mozzarella Sticks.” The dish is described as “3 huge mozzarella sticks coated with Panko breadcrumbs and served with your choice of sauce.”
These choices are either “chili, lime & garlic mayo”, “Jack Daniels BBQ”, “Sweet Chili Mayo”, and “Extra Hot Piri Piri” sauce.
Content creator Grace Gonzalez (above) documented her visit with the Winchester family on her and her boyfriend’s social media channels. (@nathanandgrace/SWNS)
The item is accompanied by a label indicating that it is “TikTok Famous.”
The people who initially released the mozzarella sticks told the news agency that the food alone justifies the price of a flight to the Spanish island, which is located off the coast of Africa.
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“It’s the best mozzarella I’ve ever had. I’d rate it 100 out of 10 if I could,” Grace Gonzalez, 21, told SWNS.
She traveled to Tenerife with her boyfriend, Nathan Davis, in late December 2024, after previously traveling there in July 2024 and May 2023. The two live in Manchester, England, and post on social media on an account called “Nathan and Grace. ”
The mozzarella sticks at The Winchester restaurant in Tenerife have attracted a lot of attention on social media. (@nathanandgrace/SWNS)
They went to Winchester especially just to try it out wands of social media superstars and documented the night out on TikTok.
“This is a restaurant that sells giant mozzarella which we made viral last year. And since then, they’ve been going through 100 kilos of mozzarella a week,” Gonzalez said in a TikTok video.
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One hundred kilograms equals 220 pounds.
Later in the video, both Gonzalez and Davis can be seen stretching mozzarella sticks and admiring the “cheese pull.”
Gonzalez couldn’t take his eyes off the impressive amount of cheese strung between the broken pieces of the mozzarella stick. (@nathanandgrace/SWNS)
The “cheese pull” extended to about Gonzalez’s wingspan — and she said it was “literally bigger than last time.”
“It’s like a jump rope,” Gonzalez said with a laugh, twirling the stringy cheese like a jump rope.
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“We get them with sweet chili mayo and it’s to die for,” Gonzalez told SWNS. “It’s worth taking a flight to Tenerife to get them.”
Gonzalez said she particularly enjoyed the way the mozzarella sticks were prepared.
Nathan Davis (above) and his girlfriend Grace Gonzalez said the mozzarella sticks alone were worth the price of a flight to Tenerife. (@nathanandgrace/SWNS)
“They bread the mozzarella in panko breadcrumbs, which makes them so crispy on the outside,” she said.
For anyone else looking to recreate her viral video, Gonzalez has a word of advice: Don’t waste time once the mozzarella sticks hit the table.
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“When you open them, you need to do it while it’s hot to get the cheese, which is amazing,” she told SWNS.
