Results tagged “restaurant critics” from Birmingham Mail - Restaurant Spy

A disadvantage of working (I use that word with reservations) as a restaurant critic is the gaining of weight.

Look at most of us and we are decidedly tubby if not - in some cases - gross.

Over the years I've run many, many miles to keep off those unwanted pounds, but age has caught up with me and sore knees mean I've not put on my training shoes for a good few weeks.

I usually flick through Saturday and Sunday's posher newspapers and I'm always amazed how infrequently their restarant critics review anywhere outside London.

I've not collated the figures and done the sums, but I reckon well over 90 per cent of their reviews concern restaurants in the capital city.

Now I know that London has more restaurants than other towns and cities in the UK, but I suspect the vast majority are fairly ordinary places that wouldn't get reviewed were they located in, say, Bradford or Barnsley or Birmingham.