A critic’s revelation: not all dishes are to all tastes

Japanese breakfast boxFew clichés in food criticism are as vacuous as this observation commonly applied to exotic cuisines:

Not all dishes will be to all tastes…

The last to use it was Matthew Norman of The Guardian in his Weekend magazine review of the London Szechuan restaurant My Old Place.

I challenge him or anyone else who’s ever shared this revelation to name 20 restaurants – no, make it 1 restaurant – where all dishes will in fact be to all tastes.

19 January 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Daniel Young, the "young" in young&foodish, made his name following the food scene in New York and Paris as newspaper critic and cookbook author. Now he leads the action as creator and host of event nights in London.

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