Archive for April 16th, 2010
Marco Pierre White in one of his publicity shots for Marco’s Kitchen Burnout. What was it The Art of War said about knife-sharpening? Photograph: ITV It’s a familiar conceit – a handful of barely-recognisable celebrities have to cook restaurant-quality meals in a professional kitchen while Marco Pierre White spectacularly misappropriates quotes from Sun Tzu’s The [...]
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Not the way to treat your guests
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A furious diner was refused a glass of tap water at a restaurant just days after a new law made it an offence for licensed restaurants not to provide water free of charge.
Sonya Adams asked for a glass of water while dining at Vermilion Cinnabar in Manchester, where she and five friends had just dined.
Marchese Lodovico Antinori is at it again. After knocking our socks off with his so-called “Super Tuscans”, Ornellaia and Masseto – Italy’s most prized and expensive wines – he’s now repeating the feat with his new project, Tenuta di Biserno, this time in cahoots with his brother, Piero. As with everything in Italy, it’s a [...]