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Smashed #16: How, and how not to write a restaurant review.

The UK's restaurant and food scene digested

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Andy Lynes
Mar 05, 2024
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How, and how not to write a restaurant review.

I’ve been obsessed with restaurant reviews since the early 90s when Nigella Lawson’s column in The Spectator was the highlight of my week. It was a world before Coren and Rayner when Jonathan Meades still wore the critic’s crown and Fay Maschler had only been writing her Evening Standard column for about 20…

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