JAMIE’S ITALIAN

VEGGIE TAGLIATELLE BOLOGNESE: £9.95

served as a main or starter, we ordered a main. This dish has few expensive ingredients, save the porcini (dried mushrooms), which were cut up small. There was pangrattato, an italian term for breadcrumbs. it was served in a large, stylish bowl, making the meal appear more substantial than it was. Cost of ingredients: £1.58 Mark-up: 530 per cent

TUSCAN PIZZA: £12.95

This was a good-sized pizza, nearly 30cm across, with six large slices of Tuscan fennel salami, an expensive ingredient, and mozzarella from westcombe in somerset. There were nine olives and a little tomato sauce. Cost of ingredients: £6.04 Mark-up: 114 per cent

SICILIAN CHICKEN: £14.95

The menu described it as half a chicken — what arrived comprised the breast and a boned-out leg. Cost of ingredients: £5.58 Mark-up: 168 per cent

SWEET FRIES: £3.95

An increasingly popular dish, these amounted to 150g sweet potatoes. Cost of ingredients: £1.29 Mark-up: 206 per cent A SPOKESMAN for Jamie’s italian would not comment on the mark- ups, but says they ‘ work hard’ to find the very best ingredients. ‘everything is meticulously sourced from producers in italy and around the uk. we always use free-range and higher- welfare meat from great British farms.’