Gotta Love Jay Rayner :)

[Tony1963]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/aug/15/the-p...


Ouch.

I feel for the staff, but the owner can take a long jump from a high building.

[Bacon Is Proof]

"According to the menu these dishes are meant for sharing. I apologise to my companion for doing so."

[Venisonpie]

Superb.

[WhiteBaron]

Very good

[dapprman]

Been a big fan of Jay since watching him on the 1st or 2nd season of the US series Top Chef Masters. It was when he was there with the compare, Kelly Choi (who does have a wicked sense of humour), and fellow judges Gael Green (if she had a senses of humour she must have lost is 20 years earlier) and James Oseland (who looked and acted about 20 years older than he really is). For some reason they were standing at some party type event when Jay appeared to have a pair of panna cotta on a plate in his hand. He looks at the other judges and states that the way to tell the best panna cotta is when they wobble like a woman's breast. Kelly Choi looked amused with a mischievous glint in her eye, Gael Green and James Oseland looked shocked

[seefarr]

He writes amazingly well about food he loves but I do really enjoy it when he tears a place a new one. He referenced the Le Cinq review in that article which is a particular favourite.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/...

[Tony1963]

[bitchstewie]

"the McCarthy salad, named not after the commie-hunting senator, which would make a certain vindictive sense"

[bigtomski]

Haha, both those reviews are superb!
Can't believe the prices for such mediocre food.

[bolidemichael]

seefarr said:

He writes amazingly well about food he loves but I do really enjoy it when he tears a place a new one. He referenced the Le Cinq review in that article which is a particular favourite.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/...

"We hit it again in an amuse-bouche which doesn’t: a halved and refilled passionfruit, the vicious passionfruit supplemented by a watercress purée that tastes only of the plant’s most bitter tones. My lips purse, like a cat’s arse that’s brushed against nettles."



I've met him in a professional capacity, after he called and asked me to introduce him to 'tasting' mineral water as part of his book, The Last Supper. He visited our offices and is as splendidly authentic and judicious as he appears on camera and reads on print. Really, a very nice man.

As intended, he subsequently wrote about the experience in his book and it reads well, reflects the experience correctly and nevers paints an unflattering picture of a subject easily trivialised.

[Scabutz]

It's no AA Gill but amusing none the less.

[21TonyK]

Scabutz said:

It's no AA Gill but amusing none the less.

I was very fortunate to meet, cook for and receive a jovial review of my food from Gill and a less personal recommendation from Jonathon Dimbleby in his travel writings.

Jay Raynor is a more ascorbic character. He is however an accurate indicator of the overall dining experience which, quite frankly, is what eating out is about

[Scabutz]

21TonyK said:

Scabutz said:

It's no AA Gill but amusing none the less.

I was very fortunate to meet, cook for and receive a jovial review of my food from Gill and a less personal recommendation from Jonathon Dimbleby in his travel writings.

Jay Raynor is a more ascorbic character. He is however an accurate indicator of the overall dining experience which, quite frankly, is what eating out is about

Wow, that's cool. I used to love reading his reviews in the Sunday Times magazine. Never once set foot in any place he reviewed but most of it wasn't about the food.

Still amused that Ramsay threw him and Joan Collins out of his restaurant for his review of Aubergine (reasons vary why they started feuding)

[WCZ]

the beverly hills one is supposedly alright as he says

those prices are absolutely nuts, kind of embarassingly so

[omniflow]

A new guy started at a place I was working - couldn't make my mind up about him - seemed ok on the surface, but there was something off about him.

He started banging on about a restaurant called Novikov and how great it was - I was looking for somewhere to go, so I googled it and found Jay Rayner's review of it. I think it might be slightly more scathing than the one above.

That kind of sealed my view of the new guy at work - and over time it proved to be an accurate view.

[Pothole]

21TonyK said:

Jay Raynor is a more ascorbic character. He is however an accurate indicator of the overall dining experience which, quite frankly, is what eating out is about

Do you mean Rayner and acerbic, or is he high in vitamin C?

[angusfaldo]

I thought his review of Smith and Wollensky a few years back was a good read:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/...