Comments on: Letter to the critic who hated the bread at Moro https://youngandfoodish.com/open-letter-to-andy-hayler-and-andy-haylers-restaurant-guide/ Fri, 12 Jun 2020 09:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tim McDonald https://youngandfoodish.com/open-letter-to-andy-hayler-and-andy-haylers-restaurant-guide/#comment-64 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:28:20 +0000 http://youngandfoodish.com/?p=409#comment-64 Andy Hayler is an over rated foodie. The fact that he ate at all 3 michelin stars is honestly good for him but utterly irrelevant to human kind evolution. The fact that Andy does not publish all comments sent to him does make of him a one man show, completely enclosed in his own little PR bubble and not really connected to the rest of the foodie world.I have stopped reading his useless writings since they are redundant: you know way in advance what he will like and what he won’t. Way too much credit is given to that guide when in fact, he is bringing absolutely nothing to the culinary world

]]> By: andyhayler https://youngandfoodish.com/open-letter-to-andy-hayler-and-andy-haylers-restaurant-guide/#comment-63 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:48:18 +0000 http://youngandfoodish.com/?p=409#comment-63 People’s experience of food, and bread, is inevitably subjective to an extent. I am particularly fond of bread and in general the standard of bread in UK restaurants is disappointing. The biggest problem is that very few places actually make their own bread, and the UK lacks the kind of superb bakers that Paris has, so that it is hard to buy in bread of real quality. Exceptions to this in London are Roussillon in Pimlico, who make excellent bread, Le Gavroche and, at the gastropunb end, The Duke of Sussex. Interestingly, the latter make their bread to keep costs down, but in fact make an excellent, simple country bread. Even Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal buy in ther bread, whereas top restaurants in France usually make theirs from scratch.

I also find it very hard to buy good bread in London. Poilane on ELizabeth Street are about the best I have found. However I have found that the bread my wife bakes at home to be better than the bought-in bread served at Gordon Ramsay, which after all is is a 3 star restaurant..

Andy

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