restaurant menus across the country, where the long-time Mediterranean ‘superfood’ is fast being adopted as the British gourmand’s dinner-plate darling.
What was once an exotic holiday meal is now consumed to the tune of 1,300 tons per year in the UK, up 12-fold since 1990. In the decade to 2019, the global trade doubled to a value of more than £2 billion.
And yet just as the gastro-star of the octopus has been rising – boosted by Instagram-friendly plating at fashionable restaurants including Kol in London and El Gato Negro in Manchester – so too has a cohort intent on protecting the animal.
This is partly due to an Oscar-winning Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher, which became a surprise hit when it was released two years ago.
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