Chef Tom Kerridge has been slammed for charging £195 for a Christmas dinner for a family-of-four you have to cook yourself – and it’s not even turkey.
The TV chef was branded out of touch for the eye-watering price amid the cost of living crisis.
Some said it was a ‘rip-off’ – despite it looking ‘mouthwatering’.
It comes after the chef was blasted over the price of his £87 steak in his Buckinghamshire restaurant – with the chef hitting back, asking when profit became a dirty word?
Tom Kerridge’s beef wellington will cost £195 for a family of four – which works out at £48.75 per person
English Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge has appeared on the Great British Menu, MasterChef and Saturday Kitchen and more recently fronted his own series How to Lose Weight For Good and Top of the Shop
Some users on Twitter praised the item and said it looked delicious but said the price was well over the top
The 49-year-old’s Beef Wellington Christmas Box works out at £48.75 per head.
It comes with a side dish of pigs in blankets and a red wine sauce plus a dessert of sticky toffee pudding and salted caramel fudge.
But there are no potatoes and vegetables.
Kerridge has appeared on TV shows like Masterchef and Saturday Kitchen.
He runs eight restaurants including the Hand of Flowers and The Coach both in upmarket Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Reacting to the price on Twitter, one user fumed: ‘Obviously no economic crisis in the Home Counties.’
Another said: ‘The only place this should end up is on rip off Britain.
‘£195 come on chef you’re having a laugh ain’t you.’
A self-proclaimed former fan of the chef wrote: ‘So for £50 per person you get a slice of beef Wellington and gravy with a dessert and some pigs in blankets?
‘Completely unaffordable to the vast majority but I’m sure some stuck up plebs will live to brag about how much they’ve been ripped off round the table.
‘Cost of living crisis and there’s nothing like giving people value for money at Xmas.
‘Well done Tom mate. Was genuinely a fan.
‘Maybe add this to the end of one of your money saving programmes.
‘Think I’ll just buy the meat and cook it myself along with my own roasters and veg.’
Twitter users largely criticised the price, but some also commented on how rare the meat looked
Others said the meat looked ‘gorgeous’ and ‘beautiful’ but that the price was ‘well over the top’.
While others criticised how rare the beef looked for the price.
One user wrote: ‘A couple of minutes with a defibrillator and that would be back in the field grazing,’ while another joked it was cooked in an airing cupboard.
Yet one fan thought it looked delicious, writing: ‘Blimey my mouth is watering. I need this in my life.’
In launching the beef, Kerridge said: ‘It’s approaching that time of year again guys and I’m super excited to launch this year’s Christmas Beef Wellington Box.
‘For a change from the traditional turkey dinner, or for the ultimate Boxing day feast, this is sure to provide the ultimate indulgent Christmas meal.
‘Handmade Beef Wellington, 30-day aged, organic, British beef fillet, wrapped in a Black Truffle Duxelle and Herb Crepé and All Butter Puff Pastry.
‘Accompanied by Pigs in Blankets with a Red Wine Sauce, all you need to do is add your own roast potatoes and veg.’
The beef wellington comes with a side dish of pigs in blankets and a red wine sauce plus a desert of sticky toffee pudding and salted caramel fudge
The beef wellington (pictured) is yet another dish of Tom Kerridge’s that has been criticised for its high prices
In the kitchen: Tom Kerridge has previously defended the price of his items, saying he pays his staff well
The MasterChef star (pictured), who has previously been criticised for his pricey items, has also asked ‘When did profit become a dirty word?
He added that the beef was followed by ‘delicious Sticky Toffee Pudding with Toffee Sauce and Christmas Spiced Butter’.
And he wrote that all the items had been pre-prepared and par-cooked by his team of chefs at Lush by Tom Kerridge.
It is far from the first time that the chef has been slammed for his prices.
Last Christmas, Kerridge was criticised for charging up to £140 for a tiny turkey for up to eight people.
And late last year his restaurant The Hand and Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. was also slammed for charging £87 for a sirloin steak.
The lamb was also £69 lamb and the venison loin £60 – despite being marketed as ‘casual’ and ‘accessible’.
Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge has got in an extraordinary war of words with a food writer after being forced to defend the sky high food prices at one of his pubs
But Mr Kerridge – who owns a further five restaurants – defended himself saying food prices are high because he pays his staff a decent wage.
‘Those prices include everything, VAT and service. No additional service charge at all,’ he said.
‘Also I pay staff properly and treat their job as a professional career. Perhaps the real cost of dining should be addressed. Unpretentious does not mean cheap. Also, why is profit a bad word?’
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