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Article: Diners fizz with fury as top chefs charge over odds for champagne
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2007
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BRITAIN'S top restaurants have been accused of trading on their
famous chef s
and accolades to make diners pay over the odds for champagne.
Award-winning venues such as Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck and
Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons have been criticised by
a food and drink writer for charging "hideous" amounts for vintage
champagnes and almost three times the retail cost of non-vintage
fizz.
Martin Isark, author of The Supermarket Own Brand Guide: Choosing
The Best Value Food And Drink, said: "In some of the poshest
restaurants, champagne has become far too expensive.
It's hideous and you also create this extraordinary, unexplained
variation between restaurants that ...