A husband died after choking on a roast dinner on Easter Sunday, a coroner concluded.
David Barnes was half way through the meal with his wife at The Royal Oak Beefeater, in Sevenoaks, Kent, when he suddenly felt short of breath.
The 77-year-old former telephone engineer sat upright in his chair and his wife asked him if he was OK or had eaten his food too fast.
But David, from West Kingsdown in Kent, fell out of his chair prompting staff to call emergency services.
Two off-duty paramedics rushed over to perform CPR on Mr Barnes before the ambulance service arrived.
After attempting save his life through CPR, and using a chest compression machine, paramedics declared his life deceased at 3.05pm.
Police officer Harry Kemp, who was one of the first on scene, mentioned in his report that David's wife had told them she thought he had choked on food, adding that she often told him he would eat too fast.
He said there were no suspicious circumstances to the incident.
At an inquest at Archbishop's Place in Maidstone, Coroner Roger Hatch concluded that David's death "was due to a misadventure", before giving his condolences to his wife and children who were in attendance.
