- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Cassell Illustrated; illustrated edition edition (15 April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0304359386
- ISBN-13: 978-0304359387
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.6 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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The culmination of 5 years of restaurant reviews - a heady mix of the columnist's audacious prose, acute social observation, architectural and topographical commentary and deep satirical humour.
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This book is the work of 15 years: weekly restaurant columns in "The Times" and over 100 weeks spent in provincial British hotels. Meades, more than any other British food writer, has tried everything and everywhere once and this book is the record of that gravy-stained odyssey. It isn't always pretty but it is the authoritative record of the alleged British gastronomic revolution of the past 20 years. But much more than that, this is a treasure trove of Meades's singular and audacious prose, a heady mix of acute social observation, architectural and topographical commentary, deep satirical humour and an unshakeable commitment to telling the truth, whatever the consequences.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This collection of restaurant reviews makes some of the best reading I have encountered in some years. Meades is perhaps best known for his acerbic column in the Times newspaper in which he delights readers in explaining the virtues (or otherwise) of some of the places in which he has eaten. His sheer depth of knowledge of food and cooking alone deserves merit, but this collection is full of many treasures ranging from buildings to counties, hotels to booze. Meades is often a witty commentator, but some of the best pieces in this book are simply riotously funny. The piece in which he describes his visit to a 'Harvester' is worth the cover price alone and is one of the funniest pieces I have ever read. I defy anyone who cares about food and good cooking to get to the end of the passage wothout wiping the tears away!
And this is the point. If you truly care about what you eat, where you eat it and what it all costs, then this is undoubtedly the best and most entertaining review guide there is.
And this is the point. If you truly care about what you eat, where you eat it and what it all costs, then this is undoubtedly the best and most entertaining review guide there is.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If there were any justice in the world (there isn't), Jonathan Meades would be more famous for his toxic, tastleless fictions than the restaurant criticism handsomely collected here. But even if this is not his finest work, the standard of writing - and by extension thinking - about what we eat, where we eat and what it says about us is sufficiently high to place it well above the traditionally cobbled collection of journalism. Meades' strengths are his polyglot way with obscure facts, his Europhile conviction that food, archetecture and, come to that, all other forms of culture are inextricable and a line in off colour jokes and venomous put-downs that'll make you laugh aloud. My sole criticism is that, though devestating when putting the boot in, Meades simpers and fawns on those rare occasions he finds cause to praise.
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