Bangers and cash
Ramsay ridiculed over £19 breakfast fry-up at Savoy
GORDON Ramsay had breakfast lovers spluttering on their tea by boasting about a £19 full English at his posh restaurant that does not even include black pudding or toast.
The celebrity chef and Savoy Grill owner posted a short video of a knife slicing into the yolk of one of two fried eggs on a plate with a few strips of bacon, sausage, half a tomato and a mushroom, and a gravy boat of beans on the side.
He wrote: “The most amazing Full English... can’t wait for you to try it from 21st September at Savoy Grill!”
But fry-up fans gave Gordon, 53, a grilling online. One wag asked the chef: “Where’s the rest of it?”
Another mocked: “Missing, presumed dead. Hash browns, crispy bits on the eggs, anoth e r sausage, black pudding, haggis, potato scone . Beans that want to actually join the party and not sit offshore in their own private yacht.”
Mul t i - m i l l i o n a i re Ramsay is also charging an additional £5 for extras such as a sausage or hash browns, while toast is £1 a slice at the restaurant inside London’s upmarket Savoy Hotel.
But one person posted: “Who is mug enough to pay a fiver for a sausage?”
The meagre meal is more than six times the price of a £2.99 nine-item fry-up at cut-price pub chain JD Wetherspoon. And the nation’s cafe owners
panned the foulmouthed chef over the spartan offering. Frank Mobed, owner of The Clock Cafe in Birmingham – which has hosted ex-PM Tony Blair and one time Labour Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls – was gobsmacked. He said: “What is he on? For £2.99 my customers can get a decent fry-up, or for £5.99 they can have the full works in a place where the plates are hot, the staff friendly and you get service with a smile.”
The Clock’s House Full English has two eggs, two rashers of bacon, two sausages, baked beans, a tomato, black pudding, mushrooms, hash browns, a slice of fried bread or toast and a
cuppa. The £2.99 one comes with bacon, egg, sausage, beans, tomato, toast and fried bread.
Wetherspoon serves a fried egg, two rashers of bacon, two hash browns, beans, sausage, tomato and toast for £2.99 to millions each year.
A spokesman said: “Those that choose The Savoy might ask why their breakfast costs more than six times more.”
Claire Day, of Essy’s in Manchester, said: “Almost £20 for a Full English that isn’t even full is not great value. Is he serving gold-plated sausages?”
Essy’s offers two sausages, two eggs, two rashers of bacon, two hash browns, tomato, mushrooms, beans and toast for £8.50 – or £7.50 for builders.
Ramsay was unavailable for comment.