Restaurant reviews....this is a classic..

[robs]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/20...-food-at-eye-popping-prices-restaurant-review

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

You have to feel for the staff. That would be a soul destroying job.

 

[tqineil]

If justified, need more like that I feel

 

[Woodface]

Jay Rayner, cannot stand the bloke but he is often right about pricing.

 

[gintonic]

I have a lot of time for Jay, eloquent and a great writer. He and I were at Leeds at the same time, our paths crossed in the pubs of Headingly from time to time , always good company.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

I love Jay Rayner. I love him even more now!

 

[Suffolk Tony]

Another great Jay review! A dead cert for inclusion in his next “My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways to Have a Lousy Night Out” book.

 

[mansr]

Now try to imagine an equivalent review of an amp being published in Stereophile. No, I can't do it either.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Now try to imagine an equivalent review of an amp being published in Stereophile. No, I can't do it either.

Couple of points on this: firstly, the restaurant seems to have been a hugely cynical venture, perhaps designed to claw back some Covid losses? Whereas most hifi manufacturers are, IME, sincere in their desire to bring a decent product to market.

 

[Tony L]

Now try to imagine an equivalent review of an amp being published in Stereophile. No, I can't do it either.

Given there has been nothing fundamentally new in amplifier design for decades now I can’t imagine they’d be served up anything that bad.

 

[JensenHealey]

A friend of mine pointed me to the review. Hilarious!

 

[wacko]

Great to read an honest review.
Disinterested owner but we know who to blame: 'an ardent hotelier and a savvy top manager, CEO Christopher Cowdray is the ultimate guardian of the group's culture and business values.'

 

[Woodface]

Kitchen Cabinet is the very worst of radio 4, he writes better than he talks.

 

[sq225917]

Tastes mostly of tomato ketchup and profit.... genius.

 

[Mullardman]

Best laugh I've had all week... Makes my weekly, Oeufs et Pommes Frit sound positively ambrosian..

 

[Bart]

Everyone knows there is a direct correlation between the height of a restaurant above sea level and it’s prices.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Everyone knows there is a direct correlation between the height of a restaurant above sea level and it’s prices.

Apostrophe!

 

[Bart]

Apostrophe!

Damn! Good job my wife’s not here I would never hear the end of it

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Kitchen Cabinet is the very worst of radio 4, he writes better than he talks.

I quite like Kitchen Cabinet, and can think of plenty of R4 stuff that I consider worse, so each to his own I guess.

 

[Suffolk Tony]

If you've never read it, i can heartily recommend Jay Rayner's aforementioned "My Dining Hell", which is stuffed full of similar hilarious reviews. He's not being cruel, just exposing some of these supposedly exclusive and posh restaurants for the frauds they really are.

In the preface, Jay mentions some of the many critical reviews of his previous literary efforts. Someone wrote, "Jay Rayner has a face like monkfish genitalia and is so ugly he makes you gasp"!