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The Cult of The Super Chef ( long )
of days ) and the obsession of just about every critic and food enthusiast for the star chef is really beginning to get to me. I am surprised that AA Gill was able to write at all with his lips so firmly atttached to MPW’s...
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best chinese in London
Shu twice after the inimitable AA Gill wrote it up – their verdict? Good, but they use stale hua jiao (not enough tingle).
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Okay. I won't hang around then...
's other posts, he treats all people like this. I think it is what modern society calls " having issues" I have a profound mistrust of restaurant critics. No, let me rephrase that, I loathe AA Gill. You, Meades, Mascheler all have...
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Fat Guy Whales on London
- some are so remarkably off-base that I can’t believe they are uttered in the same breath. For example, he thinks AA Gill is the ne plus ultra of restaurant critics. AA may be a good writer I’d submit that what he...
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Fav restaurants in Nottinghill area? [London]
any views on portobello pizza ladbrook road, which aa gill has just claimed is the best pizza in notting hill?
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Dining around the W Hotel
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How well do the food network personalities know each other?
I recommend that anyone interested in this thread read A.A. Gill's excellent book “Table Talk”. He’s the acid-tongued reviewer for the Sunday Times, and is both profane and brilliant. Because he barely bothers...
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London - Which is the best Italian Restaurant? No budget
, fairly-traditional food, in a fine dining atmosphere, and has had great reviews from, amongst others, celebrity critics such as Matthew Norman and AA Gill.
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can't decide where to eat in london
of them. worst of all is the truly grim AA Gill.
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Not Up to Snuff?
Those British food critics can be very acerbic, can’t they. :) (Jay Rayner, Giles Coren, AA Gill...) I find it hard to believe that NB doesn’t reach a “one-star” rating. Did your friend give specifics of...
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YYC - What the heck is a Halifax Donair? & where to find one...
his staple while attending Uni there. Anyhoo, have a memory (Chowhound perhaps) that said Halifax Donair differs from A&A and similar by having sauce that’s less sweet and also no radishes, or is it pickles…? He intro’d me to...
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London Cravings
and chips? Something I still haven’t discovered? I want to know.. 8. Does anyone else think, when they read a snooty, ott restaurant review in a London paper written by the likes of AA Gill that is hyper-critical in the most...
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Question from reporter
Dip on table one wants his well-done with the sauce from the tuna.And AA Gill just walked in and he looks like he’s in a bad mood... Cranky? Yeah...maybe a little. Enjoy throwing a bunch of inbred upper-class twits out of...
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Speak of deal - soft shell crab
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/dining/30mini.html I love the part that says... (Warning: Contains images of violence to crabs.) :) duh!!! http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=5213ef8fb69567d6c2fb8dd1f9cf0bac55a7aa1d&rf=sitemap
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What makes a good / superb restaurant reviewer?
One is criticism, the other is entertainment. Both, when done well, can be great. When mixed together, it can be amazing. I think AA Gill is one of the best—and most entertaining—critics writing today. Jeffrey...
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