Quotes from Jay Rayner

Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

It does not have walls splattered with gold leaf like King Midas has had a nosebleed.

it was as hot as Alaska in February.

Al Mahara is to good taste what Adolf Hitler was to world peace.

This was what America meant to me: food with a certain shamelessness; lunch with its knickers around its ankles.

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.