Comments on: Food Critics http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics Food - Photography & More Fri, 18 May 2012 02:13:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Elsie http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2069 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:55:09 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2069 Miles There are some interesting points here. I have no time for the food comments made by Winner and Gill and fail to see them as entertainment. The language used is very poor and not deserving of the space in the Times. It is meaningless rubbish. If food restaurants should have food critics writing about them then they should have a professional background and give it a balanced description. Personally, I don't think they are necessary as food will speak for itself and the reputation will spread accordingly. Chefs like yourself who pride themselves in the way they cook should make their customers fully aware that they are not serving pre-packaged factory foods and that it is cooked to the highest standards on site. Elsie Miles
There are some interesting points here.
I have no time for the food comments made by Winner and Gill and fail to see them as entertainment. The language used is very poor and not deserving of the space in the Times. It is meaningless rubbish.
If food restaurants should have food critics writing about them then they should have a professional background and give it a balanced description.
Personally, I don’t think they are necessary as food will speak for itself and the reputation will spread accordingly.
Chefs like yourself who pride themselves in the way they cook should make their customers fully aware that they are not serving pre-packaged factory foods and that it is cooked to the highest standards on site.
Elsie

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2054 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:14:11 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2054 Cid, Thankyou, I appreciate that. Miles Cid,
Thankyou, I appreciate that.
Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2052 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:49:43 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2052 Miles, <i> As for those who are allowed to serve packet meals at award winning restaurant prices I shall always vent my spleen at those who continue to downgrade my profession. </i> ... well said. Cid Miles,

As for those who are allowed to serve packet meals at award winning restaurant prices I shall always vent my spleen at those who continue to downgrade my profession. … well said.

Cid

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2044 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:14:27 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2044 Rod, Point taken but then I have never and will never defend hotels and restaurants that serve frozen ready made meals and charge the same prices as restaurants serving freshly made dishes. That is a con, they are capable of making a pan of tomato soup or a yorkshire pudding, if not then they should either not operate at all or charge significantly less. The corner cafe doesn't pretend to be something it isn't but these establishments will happily charge thousands of pounds for a couple's wedding in the full knowledge that the entire meal has come from a manufacturer. You could argue that I am defending one but not the other, I am not. I would say that there should be a level playing field if the public's interest is at heart. As for those who are allowed to serve packet meals at award winning restaurant prices I shall always vent my spleen at those who continue to downgrade my profession. I suppose the fact that I spent years working my guts out including many unpaid hours in that kitchen to see it come to that was upsetting-and unnesscecary. Rod,
Point taken but then I have never and will never defend hotels and restaurants that serve frozen ready made meals and charge the same prices as restaurants serving freshly made dishes. That is a con, they are capable of making a pan of tomato soup or a yorkshire pudding, if not then they should either not operate at all or charge significantly less. The corner cafe doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t but these establishments will happily charge thousands of pounds for a couple’s wedding in the full knowledge that the entire meal has come from a manufacturer. You could argue that I am defending one but not the other, I am not. I would say that there should be a level playing field if the public’s interest is at heart. As for those who are allowed to serve packet meals at award winning restaurant prices I shall always vent my spleen at those who continue to downgrade my profession.
I suppose the fact that I spent years working my guts out including many unpaid hours in that kitchen to see it come to that was upsetting-and unnesscecary.

]]> by: Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2043 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:37:53 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/food-critics#comment-2043 Miles an interesting point. There does seem to be a divide between things which seem to be 'open to criticism' and those which are not. As you say if you blogged that John Smith the plumber ripped you off and was professionally useless he could sue you for defamation. If he blogged that your food was a rip off and you couldn't cook that would be a review. Many of these reviewers are not restaurant critics IMHO but columnists. It's there for entertainment in a national newspaper for a national audience. Personally I suspect Fay Machler of the Evening Standard really wileds some power as people who read her eat in London. Before we castrate poor old AA Gill and even Michael Winner (sorry to mention that name on your site) I draw your readers attention to this Google search for a hotel in Grimsby It's the #1 match in Google, check it out, ignore the 3 'sponsored results' at the top http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=queen+elizabeth+grimsby Read the first comment by Our Man in the Kitchen This page gets a lot of traffic, shows the dangers of a bad review online, they never go away potentially, the critic being an award winning Lincolnshire chef of some note ! Cheers Rod Miles
an interesting point.
There does seem to be a divide between things which seem to be ‘open to criticism’ and those which are not.

As you say if you blogged that John Smith the plumber ripped you off and was professionally useless he could sue you for defamation.

If he blogged that your food was a rip off and you couldn’t cook that would be a review.

Many of these reviewers are not restaurant critics IMHO but columnists.
It’s there for entertainment in a national newspaper for a national audience.
Personally I suspect Fay Machler of the Evening Standard really wileds some power as people who read her eat in London.

Before we castrate poor old AA Gill and even Michael Winner (sorry to mention that name on your site)
I draw your readers attention to this Google search for a hotel in Grimsby

It’s the #1 match in Google, check it out, ignore the 3 ’sponsored results’ at the top
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=queen+elizabeth+grimsby

Read the first comment by Our Man in the Kitchen

This page gets a lot of traffic, shows the dangers of a bad review online, they never go away potentially, the critic being an award winning Lincolnshire chef of some note !

Cheers
Rod

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