I’d be ticked off if I was in the marketing group and was pulled down to pretend to be eating fine dining food…and then have to go back to my desk and deal with the sad-looking tuna salad sandwich I had actually brought for lunch. 
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This sounds horrific. £250 per head for this torture?!?!
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Everything that’s wrong with the restaurant business, IMO. And Gracie disses something by saying it could be Hartley’s Jelly. I take personal offence and have to defend my name’s honour. 
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By the by, I also read the review, by someone I’ve never heard of in today’s Observer. He raves about a new restaurant near me, Cantaloupe in Stockport. It’s on our to try list. But, almost every phrase of praise put me right off it. We’ll still go of course - if only to confirm that the reviewer is an arsewipe.
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Spite dining! Maybe you can start a new trend 
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Satire or mockery of the vaunted tasting menu. Might signal peak tasting menu has been reached.
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This entire experience is a huge no. Cash-rich twenty-somethings with little sense are getting ripped off. Bleah.
This at the end sounds right: “really only does one rankling thing, and that’s taking diners’ phones and locking them in a box for safekeeping. Clearly this is to preserve the magic of the journey, although a cynic might say that there’s so little substance to the staging of dinner here that Instagram scrutiny would kill it stone dead in two weeks.”
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Torture is the key word … my idea of hell “meal.”
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A meal at Lilibet’s sounds like an event, especially given Grace’s enthusiasm for it. Those seafood options sound outstanding. I am not a dessert guy normally but I might make an exception for that choux à la crème.
I was bracing myself for a London type of price but “From about £50 a head à la carte. Set lunch £29 for two courses, £34 for three” is rather reasonable for London.
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Agree, it’s going on my short list for whenever I make it to London 
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Sounds wonderful!
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Finally had a chance to read this. WOW! Thx for sharing. I’ll put it on my list of places to go when I visit my bestie in London next summer 
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Grace isn’t happy with this one.
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I think she really wanted to go with the old football chant.
“You’re shit and you know you are”
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I have never heard this football chant on this side of the Pond.
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She really isn’t.
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By the by, I reckon Grace is doing a great job co-hosting Celebrity Masterchef. Even when she isnt keen on something, she always seems to be supportive of the efforts.
That said, after all the scandal with Wallace and Torode, I think the BBC should have passed on showing this series. I mean, everyone has been paid and there’s no life-changing event for the celebs if they win or lose, as there would be with the main show or the Professional version. Could/should have easily been scrapped. And who on earth are these “celebs” - even Mrs H, who is much more attuned to Celeb World hasnt a clue who most are.
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