A RESTAURANT has slammed diners who are accused of leaving without paying for a hefty £489 lunch and driving off "as fast as they could".

Stubbs Restaurant in Ashford, Kent, welcomed the party of seven people for Sunday lunch at just before 12.30pm but ended up severely out of pocket.

According to the extensive bill, it seems the group had a taste for the finer things in life and went to town.

Starters included three lobster, crab and shrimp cocktails which came in at £59.95 and two servings of crispy brie priced at £17.90, as well as a more moderately priced calamares at £9.95 and chicken liver parfait at £8.95.

There were also two orders of a dozen oysters costing £16 each.

For the mains, a large lobster thermidor came in at a whopping £72 while an entrecote steak with a green peppercorn sauce cost £31.50.

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Three regular lobster thermidors cost a total of £144 while a skate dish was priced at £23.95.

They also sunk a fair bit of booze too including three pints of Thatchers at £5.50 each, as well as a couple of 250ml glass of Malbec at £10.90 each as well as various glasses of Shiraz and Pinot Grigio.

A post by the restaurant on social media though said the group left without paying the tab which totalled £489. 90.

It said: “Please come back and pay your bill!

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“We are a private restaurant and will not survive with you doing this to us.

“You ate all of your meal and we gave you fabulous service… yet you drove off, as fast as you could, without paying.”

One commentator wrote: “Come on folks name and shame these people, share far and wide… shame on them, such a lovely restaurant didn't deserve it.”

We are a private restaurant and will not survive with you doing this to us

Another said: “The impact this has on not just the owners but staff, this isn’t a big faceless chain, which is bad enough these are real people’s livelihoods.”

While a third added: “This makes me angry as all the staff at Stubbs Restaurant are amazing and this is not acceptable.”

The Sun Online has contacted the restaurant and Kent Police for comment.

It comes after a pub was hit twice within a few months earlier this year with diners walking out without paying.

The manager at the Fisherman's Arms in Newlyn, Cornwall, took to social media in September in the hope of tracking down two women who left without paying.

The pub, which is part-owned by England rugby star Jack Nowell, hit the headlines earlier this year after a family ran out without paying on Father’s Day.

Elsewhere, a couple who ran out of a restaurant without paying for their meal said they had a good reason to after they were shamed for dashing online.

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Meanwhile, an ex-pat faked heart attacks in at least 20 restaurants in Spain in a brazen bid to dodge paying the bill.

A restaurant owner was also left furious after a married couple fled the country without paying for their £7,000 banquet bill in Italy.

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