Will Beckett complained on Twitter after the Mail Online used an image of Hawksmoor’s chateaubriand on a possibly fake story about human flesh being served in a Nigerian hotel.
According to the Mail Online, a restaurant in Nigeria has been shut down for serving human flesh.
The piece reported that "police raided the restaurant after locals reported it was selling human meat" and that they "discovered human heads which were still dripping blood into plastic bags".
Mail Online / Hawksmoor / Via Twitter: @HawksmoorLondon
Specifically, it's chateaubriand. And the restaurant noticed.
After tweeting at the Mail, Beckett told BuzzFeed News that the steak is a "a sliced chateaubriand from Yorkshire Longhorn cattle that we serve at all our restaurants".
He added: "For clarity's sake we don't serve human flesh, there are no severed heads in our kitchen, and we've never even been nominated for 'Nigeria's Best Restaurant' or 'Cannibal Menu of the Year'."
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Tom Parker-Bowles, the paper's restaurant reviewer, visited the Hawksmoor Seven Dials branch in 2011, and declared that his "love" for the restaurant was "real".
It is also the thumbnail on the Hawksmoor Linkedin profile.
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