Fish and chips for £32.50? Inside Britain’s most expensive chippie run by famed chef Tom Kerridge
Made with sparkling water batter, the finest Brill and served just seven chips, food critics head to try out the posh take on a British favourite
BRITAIN'S "most expensive fish and chips" have been revealed at an eye-watering £32.50.
Food critics are raving about this fishy dish, dubbing it a 'once-in-a-lifetime' meal - despite the hefty price tag that is roughly 500 times more expensive than the standard fish supper.
Served with just seven chips, delicately sprinkled with herb garnish and accompanied by chunky tartare, pease pudding and curry sauce, this fish and chip meal is now served at a five-star hotel in London.
The chef behind this high-end takeaway meal is TV chef Tom Kerridge, who serves the meal at his new Bar & Grill in Corinthia hotel.
One of the things said to set this pub grub aside from its newspaper wrapped, vinegar soaked cod is that it isn't cod. It's brill - all five and a half ounces of it.
And it isn't fried in the bog-standard way either, this fish's batter is made with Kingsdown sparkling water, each bottle costing £4.
But there's a catch, typically fish and chips come with a pickled onion shoved on top, or perhaps a pickled egg if you're feeling fancy, but Kerridge's comes on a 'bed of spinach'.
Staying true to the British favourite, the battered fish does come with a lemon, but this one is carefully wrapped in muslin to avoid pips spoiling the near £35 feast.
The traditional sauces have also been 'fancied up', with tartar sauce made with capers, grated hard-boiled egg and cornichons and mushy peas made with fresh green split peas - a world away from the dribbly Styrofoam containers.
Finally, no fish supper is complete without the chips. Kerridge's have been parboiled, then chilled, then fired in rapeseed oil, then chilled again and then fried again before being delicately placed in a cup.
Despite the ludicrous price tag, which doesn't include the 12.5 per cent service charge, foodies are singing the British chef praises.
Robert Hardman, a food critic for the , sampled the meal to see if it was worth the money.
He called the meal 'suburb', while Grace Dent, 's restaurant critic, called the chips "once-in-a-lifetime".
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