BAND WANTED GREASY FRY-UP
PRUE Leith was left upset when The Beatles visited her upmarket restaurant – and asked for a bacon and eggs fry-up.
Her Notting Hill eatery was a late 1960s and 1970s favourite with the rich and famous looking for posh nosh.
But the Fab Four shunned the fancy fare and demanded “no fancy herbs” with their grub.
Prue, 82, revealed: “It is every restaurateur’s dream to have their place heaving with famous people. We had pop stars like Lulu, the Rolling Stones and The Beatles.
“I was disappointed that all The Beatles wanted was a bacon-and-egg fry-up.
“‘And don’t make it fancy with chopped herbs and stuff on the top,’ said Ringo.”
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Prue filled her empty restaurant with staff and pals to make it look busy.
She explained: “I dashed ‘backstage’ and told the waiters, busy changing out of their uniforms, to hurry into their civvies and come round to the front and try to look like a crowd of fashionable, happy customers.
Those waiters had a ball, clicking their fingers, sending food back, complaining about the wine and generally having fun at the expense of those colleagues forced to serve them.”