Manchester restaurant owner's heartfelt message after Sacha Lord sparks mammoth queues

The owners of a south Manchester have issued a heartfelt message after thousands took advantage of Sacha Lord’s offer of free food and drink.

The Parklife and Warehouse Project co-founder announced last week he would foot the entire bill for customers at the Thirsty Korean restaurant in Chorlton on Saturday (August 19). As he made the announcement, Lord insisted people "eat as much as you want, drink as much as you want, and try and rinse me" in order to support the Manchester Road restaurant.

Mammoth queues lined the road as people waited to take Lord up on his offer and divulge in the independent venue’s authentic Korean food, which includes the likes of Korean Fried Chicken, chapaguri noodles, kimchi rice and pancakes with chapaguri noodles.

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Following the successful stint, restaurant owner Eunji Noh took to Instagram to thank everyone who visited. Posting on Instagram, she wrote: “Oh my god! We did everything the best we could today and thank you everybody for being nice!! Hope to see you again and thank you very much to @sacha_lord.”

She added: “Never thought that this would be going to this much big... Thanks for the interest and I am sorry that I couldn't serve everyone's food and drink tonight! But we worked really hard today!!!! Please check on me tomorrow, If I am still alive."

In a follow up post on Monday (August 21), Eunji again thanked Lord and everyone who visited, whilst explaining more about the recent struggles she has faced with the restaurant.

In the post, she wrote: “THOUSAND THANKS.... NO NO NO… ZILLION THANKS FOR VISITING US.

“Long story short, I will tell you what I had to go through during running the thirsty korean since 2019. I arrived in