After the “criminal” food pairing sent Twitter into a frenzy, numerous restaurants in the UAE started serving up their own versions of the dish.
Garden on 8 at Media One Hotel was one of the first to start serving a Baked Bean Weetabix combo, alongside a challenge: Those who ordered the dish, priced at Dh30, over the February 12 to 14 weekend, and managed to finish it, got a drink on the house.
The challenge turned out to be so popular that the restaurant extended it until the end of month. “It was such a good result, there were a lot of people doing it and posting it on social media,” a spokesperson told