Tom Allen: ‘People think I’m snooty – they’re often quite horrified’

Tom Allen is nothing like some people expect him to be (Picture: Gettty)Tom Allen is surprisingly passionate about brunch – passionately against it.‘Brunch is a lie,’ he tells me. ‘They don’t want you to know this but brunch is just an early lunch
with an egg on it.’‘It’s this idea that maybe you’ll meet your friends for brunch, sit down at 11, but in reality, you’re
talking, as the waiters well know, you end up eating at about 12, whi