{"id":435113,"date":"2025-09-19T03:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435113\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:21:14","slug":"bold-street-restaurant-with-cult-following-giving-away-year-of-free-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435113\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold Street restaurant with cult following giving away year of free food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boojum saw massive queues at launch<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3_JS354238437.jpg\" alt=\"Boojum's opening day on Bold Street was met with huge queues\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Boojum&#8217;s opening day on Bold Street was met with huge queues(Image: Liverpool ECHO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"liverpoolecho\">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/missed-one-thing-moved-liverpool-30632906\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">cult favourite on Bold Street<\/a> is gearing up to give away a year&#8217;s worth of free food and &#8220;bankroll&#8221; a lucky customer. Boojum, a Mexican burrito business, opened last year in the city centre with queues stretching down the street for the launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"liverpoolecho\">The restaurant chain became a massive hit with Irish residents when it first opened in Belfast in 2007. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/liverpool-restaurants\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Boojum<\/a> has since expanded to around 20 sites across the UK and Ireland including Leeds, Birmingham and Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"liverpoolecho\">The Liverpool opening attracted a huge crowd, largely comprised of students, who were keen to get their hands on one of the free meals back in December. A queue formed from the shopfront stretching along Bold Street with hundreds gathering to grab a burrito.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"liverpoolecho\">To celebrate its student following, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/missed-one-thing-moved-liverpool-30632906\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Boojum<\/a> is offering to bankroll one lucky student for an entire year. The winner will receive free Boojum food for a year and a cash deposit of \u00a3500 every month for 12 months &#8211; \u00a36,000 in total &#8211; to spend how they please.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_1000051962jpgA-weighty.jpg\" alt=\"A weighty Boojum is capable of sitting upright with no support\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>A weighty Boojum is capable of sitting upright with no support<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"liverpoolecho\">The competition is open to all Liverpool students to mark the start of Freshers. David Maxwell, CEO of Boojum, said: \u201cUniversity life is tough on the wallet and students have always been at the heart of Boojum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"liverpoolecho\">&#8220;We wanted to do something meaningful to support them this year and Bankrolled by Boojum is the result. \u00a3500 a month plus free burritos for 12 months will set the lucky winner up for an unforgettable year, with Boojum fuel to keep them going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"liverpoolecho\">Boojum will also be randomly selecting a winner every day of Freshers to win a \u00a350 gift card. Students need to have a Boojum app account and they\u2019ll be automatically entered. A<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758252074_722_3_JS354238437.jpg\" alt=\"Boojum's opening day on Bold Street was met with huge queues\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Boojum&#8217;s opening day on Bold Street was met with huge queues(Image: Liverpool ECHO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"liverpoolecho\">Students can get involved by visiting Boojum\u2019s website <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/boojummex.com\/bankrolled\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Entries close on Sunday, October 5, with the winner announced shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"liverpoolecho\">The ECHO was one of Boojum&#8217;s first customers at launch, eager to witness first hand whether the hype lived up to the reality. You can read our full review of Boojum <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/missed-one-thing-moved-liverpool-30632906\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boojum saw massive queues at launchBoojum&#8217;s opening day on Bold Street was met with huge queues(Image: Liverpool ECHO)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[35652,748,393,4884,179,8899,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-435113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-bold-street","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-restaurants","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115228815234000354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}