4) Avoid specials

While it might be easy to be suckered in when your waiter reels off a long list of tempting-sounding ‘specials’, Ramsay says that a discerning customer will generally steer clear.

“Specials are there to disappear throughout the evening,” he says. “When they list 10 specials, that’s not special.”

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These are Gordon Ramsay’s golden rules for eating out at restaurants