Grub up: Where to eat insects for dinner

For much of the world, eating creepy-crawlies is the norm but in the UK the delicacy has only recently started to creep onto our menus

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Back in 2012, Rene Redzepi, chef-patron at Noma, then the best restaurant in the world, brought a pop-up version of his Copenhagen restaurant to Claridge's hotel in London. It set tongues wagging not only as it was the first time the chef had moved his restaurant outside of Denmark, but because he brought with him 27,000 live ants (give or take), which diners were encouraged to eat as they darted across a starter of cabbage leaves and dressing.

The fact the ants were served live had shock value, but Redzepi's gastronomic point was serious: as the global population grows and pressure on already strained food systems mounts, insects are likely to find themselves – crawling or otherwise – on restaurant plates as a highly sustainable and plentiful protein replacement for meat.

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