Ask Italian was found to have misled customers after a food inspector ordered its Aragosta e Gamberoni, picturedA national restaurant chain misled customers for three years by selling white fish labelled as lobster in the most expensive dish on its menu, a court has heard. The Ask Italian chain, which has 112 restaurants in the UK, was found to have misled customers after a council food inspector ordered the £14.95 Aragosta e Gamberoni, described as lobster and king prawns in a tomato and chilli sauce. When the inspector asked to see the original packaging for the suspect ingredient they were shown a packet of Lobster Sensations, made by the US company King & Prince Seafood, which contains a mixture of 35 per cent lobster meat and 34 per cent white fish “shaped and formed” to look like lobster meat. There is no…

Source: The Times January 15, 2020 12:00 UTC