An award-winning food critic has warned against ordering poached eggs for brunch and a 40-day aged steak for a bougie dinner.The picks may seem to be failsafe, popular options, but MasterChef judge Grace Dent, 52, has hit out at the menu items in her list of meals she would never order in a restaurant.Taking to Instagram, the famous foodie singled out 10 things that are almost always undercooked, overpriced - or both.Also on the list were steaks from overpriced bistros which feature information on the butchered animal, full globe artichokes and hot chocolate from any 'whimsical cupcake emporium'.She also advised against ordering anything 'too complex' on a Monday, chilled soups 'which look like half an inch of stomach bile', and hotel porridge.Carlisle-born Grace has often spoken about growing up with simple tastes - and how it has helped her write about food for more than a decade. 'I grew up eating very simply,' she told the Guardian in 2022. 'I lived in Currock, a suburb of Carlisle, in a little terraced house. Food was whatever came from the tiny supermarket down the road.'My mum did cook – hotpots, stews, fairy cakes – but my most exciting meals were tinned. I still feel the love from a tin of macaroni cheese, ravioli, baked beans.'I have strong memories of coming home from school and watching Pipkins with half a tin of Heinz tomato soup and some white bread toast spread with Dairylea. Absolute happiness.' An award winning food critic has warned against ordering poached eggs for brunch and a 40-day aged steak for a bougie dinnerShe told Luxury London Living Fabric however that she had 'always been aware that there was a bigger, better gastronomic world out there'.'When I was a child in Carlisle in the '70s and '80s, we would put on The Good Food Show and we would see Jilly Goolden swooshing wine around her mouth and saying that it tasted like babbling brooks,' she recounted.'I think that what makes me different as a restaurant critic is that I certainly didn't eat those types of food as a child. I didn't have that background. If you look at me and then look at the other restaurant critics, who I love very much, one of us is not like the others! I always say that it is an absolute fluke that I am in, doing what I do.'1. Poached eggs 'on the Sunday menu in a mega-seat brasserie'Grace warned that it's not possible to accommodate to such a large crowd with freshly made eggs. Hence, what's more likely is that they have 'semi-poached several hundred on Friday and stored them in cold water like a bucket of Satan's frogspawn'.Next, she said they will be heated up 'by Zeb the sous who's worked 11 until close since Tuesday then let off some steam at a Hackney Marshes forest rave'.Worst off all, the eggs will arrive 'intact with an ice cold runny yolk'.2. Hip bistro steaks which give backstories about the animalsGrace has hit at '40-day aged retired Galician dairy cow steaks in any hip bistro'.She said it's 'the only steak that comes with a doomed animals of Farthing Wood story' - and is usually a whopping £60, served 'on the sharing board with chimichurri'.3. Full globe artichokes The critric called this dish - a large, unopened artichoke typically served with butter - a 'mockery of a farce'.She added: 'The only reason it appears on the menu is so 80-year-old yacht owners in Cannes can order one dish their coronary specialist permits while out with their 22-year-old wives.'4. Hot chocolate in any 'whimsical cupcake emporium'Not only do these edge near the precipice of £15, Grace also said there is typically a very involved and intricate preparation method.It's 'always, always cold after eight minutes of solid banging, clattering, milk frothing and flinging about mini Costco marshmallows'.5. 'Anything incredibly complex' on a Monday nightGrace explained: 'If a restaurant opened all weekend and is open on a Monday night, the staff are there due to some sort of hostage scenario.'They don't want to be there, I don't want them to be there. I will be ordering the simplest thing on the menu.'6. Jerusalem artichoke Grace said these appear on 'fancy seasonal menus every January' - but warned against ordering them.'It's not an artichoke,' she shared. 'It's a sunflower tuber than contain more fart inducing inulin than the human colon can cope with.'7. Chilled soup Despite often being popular for those wanting a 'refreshing' savoury hit, the critic said they often 'look like half an inch of stomach bile and could do with three minutes on the front hob'.8. Anything on the hot menu in a trainGrace simply said: 'Microwaved sausages aren't any more delicious because I can see Warrington Bank Quay.'9. Porridge from the 'a la carte' menu in any fancy hotel The foodie said that these are often extortionately priced, all for '26 solid minutes of waiting while chef resentfully takes a Quaker Oats So Simple sachet, adds hot water and serves it in Denby china with heated Robertson's jam that they're passing off as a seasonal fruit coulis'.10. Optional cheese courses in a two-star Michelin restaurant According to Grace, these are likely to be filled with funky 'fungal' cheeses, where the 'crackers are charcoal and chutney is a cubed translucent lump'.