Jimi Famurewa is one of London’s most recognisable restaurant critics, having dutifully toured the city in search of the new, the exciting, the brilliant and the bold. Though his finds have not always impressed. Here, we round up some of his best lines from past reviews.
On reviewing in general: “You very much get the restaurant era that you are given. I was not there in the early-Seventies pomp of Le Gavroche. I cannot tell you what it was like to guzzle sole mousseline at Harvey’s under the sexy intensity of Marco’s gaze. But if you want to know about that period of the 2010s when a strange mania for single-item menus gripped the dining firmament, if you want to know about the dawn of Burger & Lobster and the passable, Nando’s for-the-coalition-age experience of The Chicken Shop, then, friends, I am absolutely your man.” Read more
