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Courtney Pochin

Restaurant under fire for offering 'ladies' steak - which is smaller than others

When you go to a restaurant, you often expect there to be different portion sizes offered - but you probably don't expect these portions to be gendered.

Well one restaurant in Liverpool has decided to create a dish just for the ladies and it's got them in a spot of hot water.

Manhattan Bar and Grill have featured a "ladies" fillet steak on their menu, which is considerably smaller in size than their other steaks.

An image of their steak options was shared on Twitter by food writer Vicky Andrews, showing the 8oz ladies steak costing £18.95 and being described as "one for the ladies! A beautiful 80 cut, cause we can..."

The restaurant also has a 12oz New York Sirloin steak on their menu, as well as a 10oz fillet steak and a 16oz T-bone steak.

It's fair to say women on social media weren't very impressed with the fact that they were being offered a smaller steak.

One user commented: "Wait a sec, let me make sure I have ‘man-size’ tissues at the ready before I tuck into my ‘lady’ steak."

Another said: "This lady would prefer a big ole ribeye steak."

A third wrote: "Gender specific steak. Ridiculous, like gender specific gin, can't be doing with it! Guess what people, women drink Navy Strength too y'know and eat big steak!"

Someone else said they would leave the restaurant if they saw this one the menu, adding: "It’s the 2020s not the 1920s!"

"This enraged me," proclaimed a fifth.

A different user asked: "Don't they understand the climate of the times?"

Karl at Manhattan Bar and Grill spoke to Metro about the backlash the ladies steak has received.

He said: "Wow, this has created some publicity, considering we are a small family run business in Liverpool!

"We've had this steak on the menu since day one (2015) and due to high demand from a lot of our female customers we named it, the Ladies Fillet. It's a very popular dish and one of our best selling steaks."

He added: "So, no! I won't be changing the name, why change something that works?"

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