Tricks of the Restaurant Trade

- Season 2

(2016)

The show that investigates whether consumers are getting the best deal at their favourite eateries returns, finding out just how good the coffee really is at high-street chains.

The team go behind the scenes at a leading high-street sushi chain, where Kate Quilton asks how healthy the Japanese cuisine really is. She also examines what ingredients go into wasabi paste.

The team look at what is in some of the takeaway lunches sold by big name chains and investigating whether the salads and soups that many order as a healthier option are quite as healthy as we think.

Kate Quilton enlists the help of a group of taxi drivers to investigate why portion sizes seem to have got bigger. Simon Rimmer campaigns to bring the doggy bag to Britain to reduce the amount of food waste.