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"Michael "Dog3"" > wrote

> margaret suran > dropped this
> : in rec.food.cooking
>
>> Goomba38 wrote:
>>> Too good not to share! I wish my local newspaper had the balls to do
>>> restaurant reviews like this one!
>>>
>>> http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/...203404,00.html

>>
>> The New York Times does it. Here is Wednesday's column by Frank Bruni,
>> the current NY Times Food Critic.
>>
>> The restaurant, Harry Cipriani is world renowned, going back to Harry's
>> Bar in Venice in the 1930's.
>>
>> http://events.nytimes.com/2007/11/14...ws/14rest.html

>
> This was my favorite part of the review:
>
> "And cram they do. At times they place the Frisbee-size tables for four
> so tightly together that Harry Cipriani seems to be doing an haute
> impersonation of Prune or the Spotted Pig."


My favorite was:

One dining room is brightly lit, the other gloomy. If you go - perhaps
because you are in the grip of a terminal illness and need a laugh - I
recommend the latter. That way you won't have to look at the food
as well as taste it.

(still laughing) nancy