Jay Rayner’s Final Column in the Observer Food Monthly
Not sure if this is allowed or not, but glad to see him impart some final words of wisdom
by chinanigans
6 Comments
Djinjja-Ninja
That first sentence is so true.
I find this much more annoying than food served on “not plates”.
I know that everytime the waiter says “so, we do things a little bit differently here” I know I’m in for a deluges of 25 different plates coming out in a random order and not enough room to put my drink down.
GosmeisterGeneral
“Expensive restaurants are wasted on the people who can afford them.”
A-fucking-men. Hang it in the Louvre.
_zomato_
did he die? seems weird that a columnist would go out of their way to retire given it’s already a somewhat casual gig
BionicTriforce
The ‘not enough table for all these plates’ rings true sometimes. Other restaurant things I think about far too much:
Your lights should be bright enough and your menus legible enough to read a menu easily.
Napkins should be plentiful and large.
The more menus/papers I have to look at the more annoying it is. Here’s our menu, and our wine list, and our cocktail menu, and our specials for the night, and it’s happy hour so here’s our happy hour menu, and it’s restaurant week, and here’s our new items….
Your butter should be soft enough to be able to spread it without tearing the food it is on.
Kerloick
Go and see Jay’s “An evening with” if he tours again – was a really good night out.
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That first sentence is so true.
I find this much more annoying than food served on “not plates”.
I know that everytime the waiter says “so, we do things a little bit differently here” I know I’m in for a deluges of 25 different plates coming out in a random order and not enough room to put my drink down.
“Expensive restaurants are wasted on the people who can afford them.”
A-fucking-men. Hang it in the Louvre.
did he die? seems weird that a columnist would go out of their way to retire given it’s already a somewhat casual gig
The ‘not enough table for all these plates’ rings true sometimes. Other restaurant things I think about far too much:
Your lights should be bright enough and your menus legible enough to read a menu easily.
Napkins should be plentiful and large.
The more menus/papers I have to look at the more annoying it is. Here’s our menu, and our wine list, and our cocktail menu, and our specials for the night, and it’s happy hour so here’s our happy hour menu, and it’s restaurant week, and here’s our new items….
Your butter should be soft enough to be able to spread it without tearing the food it is on.
Go and see Jay’s “An evening with” if he tours again – was a really good night out.
Jay Rayner is a God.