'It's not just overspending, it's M&S overspending': Supermarket defends £195 beef wellington

M&S has defended the terms of a £195 beef wellington made by cook Tom Kerridge.

Some online are unhappy with the outgo of the Collection Fillet of British Beef Wellington, which serves six radical - yet contempt the price, it's astir sold out.

"It's not conscionable overspending connected Christmas, it's M&S overspending connected Christmas" is what 1 idiosyncratic said astir it.

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Another said: "I deliberation it would beryllium justifiable if it included Tom Kerridge to bash the cooking and cleaning up."

A 3rd asked if the terms had thing to bash with the caller cyber onslaught M&S suffered successful April: "M&S trying to recoup immoderate of that cyber onslaught nonaccomplishment by charging astatine slightest doubly excessively overmuch for a spot of fillet."

Other wellingtons available

Fortnum & Mason, known for its high-end offerings, sells a Classic Beef Wellington that serves six to 8 radical for £120.

Charlie Bigham has launched a £30 acceptable repast beef wellington.

And Gordon Ramsay, astatine 2 of his restaurants, offers a three-course Beef Wellington Experience costing £95 per person.

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'Our champion prime wellington ever'

An M&S spokesperson told Sky News: "The M&S Collection Tom Kerridge Beef Wellington has been a large deed with customers - it's selling precise good and we lone person a fewer near connected our Christmas Food To Order page.

"Serving six radical and weighing implicit 2kg, the hand-butchered British beef fillet is matured implicit 17 days and manus rolled successful portobello mushroom duxelles with silky chickenhearted bosom mousse and achromatic truffle arsenic it would beryllium successful a edifice - it's the implicit champion prime wellington we've ever created."

Sky News has contacted Tom Kerridge for comment.