STUFF WE LOVE this month
Bad restaurant reviews
Most people turn to the Mark Twains and Charles Dickenses of the world when they need a bit of writing inspiration. Not me. I read negative restaurant reviews – the more scathing, the better. The ability to convey pure disgust and disappointment in the Queen’s English is something I truly admire.
My favourite critic, Jay Rayner, writes with the type of acerbic wit that almost brings tears to your eyes. He once famously wrote that the dining room of gourmet palace Le Cinq, in Paris, was ‘a broad space of high ceilings and coving, with thick carpets to muffle the screams’, and that it was decorated in ‘various shades
