Man tries UK's most expensive cookie costing £26 - but it tastes like a supermarket's version

Callum Ryan, 23, from Milton Keynes, visited the bakery wrong The Berkley Hotel successful Knightsbridge to effort the costly cooky - but helium was near disappointed

A antheral sampled Britain's priciest cooky and was profoundly unimpressed.

Callum Ryan, 23, ventured into the bakery astatine The Berkeley Hotel successful Knightsbridge to illustration their renowned cookies, crafted by thrice-crowned world's champion pastry chef, French maestro Cedric Goulet. Opting for a cocoa spot delight, Callum shelled retired £26.45 including service, but was near underwhelmed, likening the sensation to "sand".

The Milton Keynes antheral said: "I was trying to find the astir costly cookie. The astir costly cooky was £27 and they adjacent adhd a 15 per cent work charge. It was gritty and tasted similar it had soil successful it and it did not unrecorded up to the hype. I wouldn't accidental it's immoderate amended than the cookies I get from Tesco."

On November 12, 2024, Callum visited the hotel, and was incapable to responsibility its ambiance. While the priciest offering was a £27 hazelnut cookie, helium chose the somewhat cheaper cocoa spot mentation astatine £23, which totalled £26.45 aft service. He praised the setting, saying: "The ambiance was beauteous and was the cleanable mounting for a saccharine treat."

He enjoyed the presumption and ambiance, yet felt the cooky didn't warrant its cost, branding it "raw" and yet departing with it half-eaten successful a takeaway bag. He expressed his willingness to return, aiming to illustration a antithetic dainty adjacent time. He shared, "I’d possibly spell backmost for a pastry oregon a coffee. The ambiance was truly nice. The bakery is successful a five-star edifice successful the mediate of Knightsbridge truthful it was truly nice."

Last period the Mirror's Jessica Gibb decided to task to a akin spot of London to effort the astir expensive Full English disposable successful the UK.

"I decided to effort determination considerably much fancy than my section caff for a peculiar time retired successful London. Getting my hubby connected committee was admittedly going to beryllium a challenge. Sending him the paper for the Claridge's Restaurant, helium replied: 'FORTY-FIVE POUNDS FOR A BREAKFAST?!'," she wrote.

"Determined to spot what each the fuss was astir astatine the 5* edifice successful Mayfair, I proceeded to publication america successful for a slap-up Saturday greeting feast. We’d walk up to £100 for a fancy meal retired for a peculiar occasion, truthful wherefore not splash the currency for the astir important repast of the day?"

While Jess forked retired acold much for the repast than Callum did for his cookie, she was acold happier with what she ended up with than helium was.

"The meal unsocial is not worthy £45, but the sojourn to 1 of the astir elegant hotels successful London surely is. Rooms astatine the iconic edifice successful the bosom of Mayfair outgo from £840 a night, truthful you tin acquisition a mates of hours of existent 5* luxury for a snip of the price," she wrote.