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My quick unscientific survey shows Shrub and Shutter with 4 of 12 house cocktails over £10 and top spot at £12, Canova Hall with all 22 over £10 and top spot at £12, Lost in Brixton with 6 of 12 over £10 and top spot at £11.50 and Bar Marino with 13 of 14 house cocktails over £10 and top spot at £15.
Sounds like a top session well done.
 
Just sharing this as an aside from usual business
the bill for a meal purchased and consumed at a new celebrity haunt in London
£37,000 +

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chips a tenner a go
steak £850
booze £30 k +

A bit in the independent .....
 
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Just sharing this as an aside from usual business
the bill for a meal purchased and consumed at a new celebrity haunt in London
£37,000 +

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chips a tenner a go
steak £850
booze £30 k +

A bit in the independent .....

Suspect the staff don’t see much of the service charge either
 
'Our Jay' normally has no problem lavishing praise on expensive restaurants that are wildly out of reach for the majority of the residents living in the impoverished neighbourhoods they exist in. Still, #edgelord
sorry...I had to look up ‘edgelord’
is that aimed me or mr Rayner ?
 
Petrus is one of the most expensive wines in the world and makes up 75% of the bill

Still very expensive food. Jay Rayner has been taking the piss out of it today

We were in a wine merchant in France recently. Hidden among the many great value wines was some 2013 Petrus at 1980 euros a bottle! 😱
 
sorry...I had to look up ‘edgelord’
is that aimed me or mr Rayner ?
"The word has taken hold to refer to one who makes wildly dark and exaggerated statements (usually on an internet forum) with the intent of shocking others. There is usually a tone of nihilism to such remarks, the kind that might be flagged by a counselor as anti-social behavior."


Doesn't sound like Jay Rayner to me tbh
 
Yes, Rayner goes to affluent Parsons Green to buy an £8.50 kebab and thinks he is sticking it to the man, yet regularly runs up bills of over £100 and gets all shirty when people try to criticise. Im sure he got a good egotistical kick out of the usual weirdo comments under his article such as this one:

"THIS! Just this. THIS is why the man Rayner is revered across the country. A beautiful, witty and politically resonant bit of loveliness here mister, CHAPEAU!"

:facepalm:
 
I respect Salt Bae - I'd never eat there even if I could afford it* but he's made a business out of a meme, that's rinsing people who want to be rinsed.

Anyone who has booked to go to his London place knew exactly what they were getting into.

*I don't like rare steak
 
sorry that’s bit ambiguous, food and beverages maybe ?
guys a bit of all rounder tbf, food critic, tv personality, even jazz musician/ raconteur in the style of george melly.
Hasn't he done well. He only had his private education and well-connected parent to power him into the role of someone who criticises other people's food for a living. See also Giles Coren and William Sitwell.
 
Hasn't he done well. He only had his private education and well-connected parent to power him into the role of someone who criticises other people's food for a living. See also Giles Coren and William Sitwell.
....I gotta say that when I used to go down that path in conversation with the o/h she would either refuse to engage or give me a bollocking. Nonetheless less I will say that nepotism and patronage are fairly common in some lines of work, the beneficiaries are quite good at hiding it tho’....
 
Hasn't he done well. He only had his private education and well-connected parent to power him into the role of someone who criticises other people's food for a living. See also Giles Coren and William Sitwell.

Though of the three mentioned, I suspect Rayner would acknowledge it and the others deny it. Sitwell was Jacob Rees moggs best man….
 
I like Jay Rayner tbh. He’s a good writer and journalist and his Mum Clare was a very decent sort and a former psychiatric nurse. He lives round the corner and so I know him a bit irl.
I don't have any problem with him, he is a media type and fills an entertaining slot on the radio that anyone can take or leave. He may not have got his original "in" to reviewing restaurants without his family connections. but he has now reviewed over 1,000 restaurants, including the likes of Kaosarn and a nascent Honest Burger. He has also written over a dozen books, if he wasn't any good at it all no one would publish him

I assume he makes a reasonable living peddaling his ideas around numerous small town and provincial theatres giving them work and promoting his "art". Live Shows – Jay Rayner
Presumably the icing on the cake for him is getting the freebies in the £300 a head dinning experiences - don't know him at all but happy to go with Ms.T who doesn't seem to think he's a twat...
 
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