Worms, ants and crickets on pestaurant’s menu

As City workers swapped their lunchtime sandwiches for crickets, ants and pigeon burgers, it all got too much for one young boy who vomited after eating a handful of mealworms.

For one day only, pest control service Rentokil set up the world’s first “pop-up pestaurant” in the City of London.

Marking more than 85 years of service, an array of exotic cuisine was on offer, including sweet chilli pigeon burgers, salt and vinegar crickets, barbecue mealworms and chocolate-dipped ants — all of it free to those adventurous enough to try it.