Jay Rayner

“It does not have walls splattered with gold leaf like King Midas has had a nosebleed.”

— Jay Rayner

English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

— Jay Rayner

One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.

— Jay Rayner

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

— Jay Rayner

“The dish is...a fearsomely good combination of flavors and textures, the tapioca and the caviar playing tag with each other in the…

— Jay Rayner

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

— Jay Rayner

“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the…

— Jay Rayner

“...it was as hot as Alaska in February.”

— Jay Rayner

Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant…

— Jay Rayner

“Have you noticed that there are no local consumer electronics webs, run by earnest chaps with straggly beards called Hugo and Jake…

— Jay Rayner

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go…

— Jay Rayner

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

— Jay Rayner

“Al Mahara is to good taste what Adolf Hitler was to world peace.”

— Jay Rayner