‘I ate a £40 butty - it had caviar as a garnish but one other thing blew my mind’

Our antheral Andy Gilpin goes successful hunt of the cleanable sarnie and finds 1 for a sum truthful princely that millionaires lone could person it for their luncheon each day. But does it unrecorded up to the hype?

Sandwiches person truly upped their crippled this Millennium. It wasn't agelong agone that a Subway meatball marinara was deemed the tallness of sarnie chic.

But with the emergence of instagram, present you request to spot and been seen eating the humble butty and that means pushing the vessel retired a small astatine lunch. We can’t ever person the aforesaid repast woody - Southern Fried Chicken wrap, Eat Natural macromolecule barroom and orangish Lucozade being the lone close reply present - we person to spell big.

Sometime you request to wage £40 for a sandwich. This is not a typo. Pounds. Forty of them. Well 2,650 Egyptian pounds, but you get the idea.

We were astatine the satellite celebrated Four Seasons edifice astatine Sharm El Sheikh for immoderate wintertime sun. Think White Lotus but with little debauchery, dormant bodies and much attentive staff.

It was our past time and we wanted to extremity with a bang. How astir the Waha Lobster Roll, sir? Brioche (we’ll get to that later), citrus mayonnaise, celery and caviar. Together astatine past for the princely (or should that beryllium Pharoah-ly) sum of £41.39.

Now we each cognize erstwhile connected vacation wealth doesn’t mean much. Especially erstwhile you can’t rather enactment retired 0.16 Egyptian pounds to our trusty Sterling. It’s ever champion to dive successful and deliberation astir the recognition paper measure later.

Worry not, for that terms you get a plot crockery too, but you could person had French fries, roasted babe potatoes, ratatouille, oregon couscous with workplace veg, raisins and nuts.

Rayan, our waiter, gave america a knowing wink arsenic we ordered. We were large time. He knew it, we suspected it. Finally we’d made it.

When the cook had really made it, we examined similar it was the Mona Lisa, not rather wanting to start.

Let’s instrumentality it measurement by step. The brioche breadstuff was a revolution. It was bun-like without being a bun. Cut down the mediate it was 1 portion for each the filling, meaning you weren’t going to suffer immoderate of it betwixt 2 slices. I tin safely accidental its structural integrity lasted for the full sitting arsenic we worked retired whether to devour it oregon framework it.

This integrity is conscionable arsenic good arsenic a) it’s costly and b) it looked beauteous sloppy.

It was toasted astir the edges to springiness it a small crisp bite, but not truthful overmuch that it was much oregon little toast.

Inside determination was a bully helping of premier chopped lobster successful a citrus mayonnaise sauce. Not excessively overpowering, but with capable footwear to support you interested. The lobster was apical notch, fishy but not excessively fishy and with the satisfying crunch and texture affluent people, purveyors of £40 sandwiches and Homer Simpson emotion (watch the lobster episode, it’s a classic).

On apical was the existent pièce to resistance. Finely chopped celery (yeah, we tin skip that one) and a bully dollop of caviar. You don’t get that arsenic a enactment successful Subway, God knows I’ve asked.

It came each unneurotic for a blinding premix of tastes successful a acquainted mounting to america each - the humble sandwich. Forget your premier chopped streak - this is wherever it’s at. It was filling, if albeit with a tad excessively overmuch mayonnaise and the caviar was a bully touch.

I asked Rayan if everyone had this. He said no, the steak was the preferred option, but determination were a fewer guests who had this each day. Imagine the sheer opulence!

They started it backmost successful August 2024 for 'luxury, freshness and a airy refreshing entreaty to seafood lovers. It's besides decidedly instagrammable. They marque astir 5 per time and the main constituent is poached Canadian lobster.

Was it worthy it? Well it’s hard to accidental yes to that question, but it’s surely worthy the terms to beryllium capable to archer everyone you erstwhile ate a sandwich for £40.

Sometimes you conscionable person to fto everyone cognize you’ve pushed the vessel out.