A pop-up restaurant has been forced to cancel a Death Row themed event after accusations of bad taste.
For £50 a head, Hoxton's Death Row Dinners was offering offering diners a five-course meal inspired by real-life requests of prisoners facing execution.
Up to 80 ‘inmates’ would have been packed into the restaurant - renamed The Penitentiary - which was described online as “one of London’s toughest high security restaurants”.
Guests would have been “charged, sentenced, searched and frisked” before being served the ultimate last supper.
But it was forced to apologise after potential diners complained the event was distasteful.
"We're saddened by the response & sorry for the offence," it tweeted.
News of Death Row Dinners, which runs throughout November, was greeted with horror by some Londoners.
Richard Hughes, the drummer in band Keane, said: “I assume ‘Death Row Dinners’ pop-up in Hoxton is some kind of spoof, not real, right? Because that would be terrible.”
Felix Cohen wrote on Twitter: “Thing is, I’ve talked with a bunch of people about doing a death row dinners supper club. But never quite so crassly.”
Emily Wright wrote: “Glamorising Death Row. Cool.”
But others have expressed an interest in taking part in.
Vicky McGarvey wrote: “Who’s weird and wants to do this too?” and Alex Micu wrote: “What a great restaurant concept”.
