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nicknack

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #150 on: 09 February, 2020, 10:14:38 am »
“Unlubricated colonoscopy”  :jurek:


https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/feb/09/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-london-seabird-seafood-southwark-hoxton-hotel
Sounds like they deserved it. If a restaurant stank of paraffin I'd have turned round and walked out.
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ian

Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #151 on: 09 February, 2020, 06:07:19 pm »
Heh, I went to Seabird a few weeks back and I swear we had the same hirsute waiter who was too cool to write down the order and, yes, we spent the rest of the meal negotiating the release of the other dishes we'd ordered. All without apology like the fault was somehow ours. It wasn't even a complex order. And come on, get the drinks out before the food, it's surely a restaurant 101. How can you cook food more quickly than you can open a bottle of wine?

The food wasn't that bad, but the usual chefy finickiness that I can't be bothered with these days, I'm the sort of grump who likes plain food cooked well and doesn't give a fuck what it looks like on instagram, but the price was eye-watering and the clientele hipster dystopian. Fortunately, I wasn't paying.

Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #152 on: 17 May, 2020, 11:52:32 pm »
"Also, many French classics are far less portable than Korean chicken wings. Soupe à l’oignon, complete with a crouton and gruyère lid, in a plastic box, may well arrive looking like a Portaloo on the third day of Glastonbury."


Poetry....  https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/may/17/daydreaming-of-your-first-meal-out-after-lockdown-it-is-going-to-be-french
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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #153 on: 22 August, 2020, 11:40:37 am »
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/we-just-didnt-like-you-14643770


Wreckfish is lovely, but the owner is not the shy retiring type  :D


More reasons to visit Mr Usher's premises.  He's upset the Faragists  :-D


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Cudzoziemiec

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citoyen

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #155 on: 03 December, 2020, 03:06:19 pm »
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #156 on: 03 December, 2020, 03:26:07 pm »
Not actually a restaurant: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/dec/03/prosecco-crisps-pigs-in-blankets-pot-noodles-please-make-these-christmas-treats-stop-jay-rayner

He shouldn't have mentioned buck's fizz pork pie - he's giving someone an idea.   ;D
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citoyen

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #157 on: 03 December, 2020, 04:56:04 pm »
I mentioned the piece to a colleague. She said she made the mistake of buying Sainsbury’s pigs in blankets tea last year. Yes, *tea*.

As bad as it sounds, going by her review.
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Thor

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #158 on: 15 August, 2021, 12:51:01 pm »
It was a day like any other in Ireland, only it wasn't raining

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #159 on: 15 August, 2021, 01:21:28 pm »
I showed my son the photo of the salad, without the comments. "It's all cubed" he said. "It looks like Communist food." I agree. It looks like something you'd have got in an upmarket Intourist hotel in Moscow circa 1987 (except it's lacking potato).
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barakta

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #160 on: 15 August, 2021, 03:47:56 pm »
Oh, so true. Romania 1996 had a lot of that!

citoyen

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #161 on: 15 August, 2021, 04:42:23 pm »
Yes, it's like a deconstructed version of that stuff you used to get in jars from Heinz called "Russian salad".

I once had something that looked vaguely similar in a Georgian restaurant (as in a restaurant in Hackney that served Georgian food, not a restaurant in Georgia), but it was actually rather good. And probably cost a tenth of what Jay Rayner paid for his version.
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cygnet

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #162 on: 20 August, 2021, 12:56:17 pm »
I showed my son the photo of the salad, without the comments. "It's all cubed" he said. "It looks like Communist food." I agree. It looks like something you'd have got in an upmarket Intourist hotel in Moscow circa 1987 (except it's lacking potato).

Jay agrees:
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Prime among them is the McCarthy salad, named not after the commie-hunting senator, which would make a certain vindictive sense
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ian

Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #163 on: 20 August, 2021, 01:11:29 pm »
It did inspire me to make a cubic salad last night (cubed cheese, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes and croutons). I suspect it was a lot better than the one Jay had.

Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #164 on: 20 August, 2021, 01:40:16 pm »
I wonder what Mr Rayner would make of this.....?  https://twitter.com/weekirsty0/status/1428053869968470017?s=20
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citoyen

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #165 on: 26 August, 2021, 11:15:34 am »
I wonder what Mr Rayner would make of this.....?  https://twitter.com/weekirsty0/status/1428053869968470017?s=20

That is WRONG on so many levels.

And WTF is that thing on their dining companion's plate in the background?
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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #166 on: 26 August, 2021, 11:29:41 am »
And WTF is that thing on their dining companion's plate in the background?

By the looks of it, the head of a fun-sized Cthulhu - who's already nommed on the sanity of the chef, hence the abomination closer to the camera.  ;)
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #167 on: 26 August, 2021, 11:30:33 am »
And WTF is that thing on their dining companion's plate in the background?
Baby squid? Probably not but that's what it kind of looks like to me.

As for the stuff in the Guinness glass, I can't work out what it is but it certainly shouldn't be in that glass and probably just shouldn't be, full stop.
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Basil

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #168 on: 26 August, 2021, 11:44:54 am »
I bet that Guinness would have something to say if they saw that.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #169 on: 26 August, 2021, 12:44:32 pm »

Jay Rayner is unimpressed by The Polo Lounge at the Dorchester

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/aug/15/the-polo-lounge-at-the-dorchester-hotel-dismal-food-at-eye-popping-prices-restaurant-review
That is epic. Thank you for posting that.

A couple of days ago we ate out with the family in a chain hotel restaurant (everywhere else was booked up).

Pure 70s. A buffet that had fish in dill sauce, mushroom stroganoff (along with the obligatory roasts). Went down a treat with the family. Sadly I could only manage one trip to the dessert bar.
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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #170 on: 16 September, 2021, 03:25:46 pm »
Not a restaurant review, but a self review.
  https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/sep/16/the-classic-recipe-i-can-never-get-right-jay-rayner?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other   
Read the article.  Then read the comments,  where Jay Rayner's wife trolls him, in his own newspaper column.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #171 on: 16 September, 2021, 03:51:58 pm »
There are currently 667 comments. Quite a lot to wade through in search of one.
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nicknack

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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #172 on: 16 September, 2021, 03:56:17 pm »
There are currently 667 comments. Quite a lot to wade through in search of one.
If you arrange them in 'recommended' order, it's the second one.
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Re: a resturant review I enjoyed
« Reply #173 on: 16 September, 2021, 04:36:17 pm »
There are currently 667 comments. Quite a lot to wade through in search of one.
If you arrange them in 'recommended' order, it's the second one.

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