Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) is taking his partner Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) to the most prestigious restaurant imaginable. Hawthorn is situated on an island where the only inhabitants are the restaurant staff and their leader, Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). At this restaurant the clientele are asked not to simply eat, but to savour every mouthful that they ingest. 

The Menu is an absolute blast. It is a pitch black comedy that skewers many targets including the cult of personality that certain chefs cultivate, the food that some high end restaurants serve, critics, amateur critics and the class war between the haves and have nots. 

The film opens with Tyler and Margot making their way to the island on a boat filled with the other guests. Tyler is a “foodie” obsessed with Chef Slowik and prepared to do anything to bask in his glow. Margot on the other hand is relatively new in this relationship and fairly cynical at the idea that anyone should be such a slave to this cult of personality. Other guests include a restaurant critic and her sycophantic colleague, a film star and his all suffering assistant, a well to do couple who are regulars and a group of businessmen. Arriving at the island they are greeted by Elsa (Hong Chau) who gives them a tour of the island including the quarters that she and her colleagues live in. When they arrive at the restaurant Chef Slowik begins service and theatrically introduces his dishes. 

From here almost anything can and does happen. The results are often hilarious, shocking or both. Tyler brings the most humour as a man who will lap up anything Chef Slowik will throw at him. Whilst Slowik himself is for all intents and purposes a cult leader where his staff are his fanatics. The film does have some serious stabs at issues surrounding capitalism and the manner in which the service industry can crush those who work within it. It also is happy to have hilarious digs at film stars and both professional and amateur critics (should I be worried?). 

Fiennes, Hoult and Taylor-Joy are all exceptional. Whilst the culinary images and the accompanying text explaining the ingredients are spectacular and hunger inducing. 

All in all it is a dish that should satisfy all those who try it.