Tim Almond

The Englishman pointed out a review of a restaurant in The Times by AA Gill.

I’ve eaten out a few times in London. I had high expectations, which were rarely met. I’ve spent out 3 times what a meal in rural France would cost, and not had the same quality. I’m annoyed that unlike in the regions, you pay for veg, and a tip is stealthily added to the bill at the end.

The funniest thing about the review is that it seems to reflect something about the attitude amongst much of the media that if it isn’t happening in London, it doesn’t exist. The sort of places he describes - honest food, unpretensious menus, good service, simple, honest, functional furniture - I can think of at least half a dozen pubs with dining rooms around North Wiltshire that do precisely that, and have been for decades. Menus on blackboards serving home made pies, another that baked his own ham, or where the meat for the roast dinner comes from the organic farm just down the road.

But because London wakes up to it then "this isn’t just a fad or an east-London oddity, but a real movement of real English food".

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