We
really recommend you read the original review here first
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jul/29/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-sushi-tetsu
Jay
Rayner had his hair cut yesterday and evidently his thinning blood
has rushed to repair the changes. Says "I will never apologise
(or even take responsibility)" to anyone finding it hard to get
a seat at Tetsu - no Jay you silly old, round, hair-person, no one
will blame you - it has been open ages now and you've only just got
around to having a taste so quite how you can try to (oh so
desperately) scrape some of the glory for your own slice of bread is
quite beyond WRFW.
For
anyone like Jay (or his followers) who've only just taken notice of
the vibrations - Tetsu is in Jerusalem Passage (between Aylesbury
Street and St.John's Square).
Reading
that the bar is made from "blond wood" fills us with dread
- oh God please don't describe in detail the upholstery and where it
came from, please. After a hard and dusty day knocking walls down and
refurbishing offices in Clerkenwell, we just need to sit on something
(anything will do) and nosh.
We
love how Jay writes of the intricacies of the processes and Toru's
artistic, precise talents and he goes some way to explaining the
short though alien (to very many) menu. We giggle at how he tells us
Ponzu was brushed across his Bream and we can imagine him almost
'singing praises' to the rice and tells it how it feels in his mouth
- has he never tried "Uncle Bens Packet Special Fried Rice"
before? Really? Tsk tsk.
Actually
we are poking Jay a bit - his review is lovely and reads well - thank
you Jay - Tetsu is now further up our list (no, we haven't been up
that particular passage - unlike Jay and now presumably his band of
following sycophants).
Sushi
Tetsu
Jerusalem
Passage
EC1
A number of points. Firstly, do a search under my name. You will see the tweet re not apologising was a response to all the people who were telling me I was ruining it for others. Secondly, I visited about three weeks ago, roughly three weeks after it opened. That's how long it takes for a review to get in to print in a national newspaper.
ReplyDeleteThirdly if you're going to call yourself a reviewer of other peoples' writing perhaps you'd like to learn to spell (deperately? intricasies?) You might like to start by spelling my name correctly.
Jay Rayner
jay.rayner@observer.co.uk
Is this blog a joke? If you're going to set up a blog criticising real writers, at least learn how to write yourself.
ReplyDeleteSpelling corrected, nothing else to see here. Goodbye.
ReplyDeleteDoes East Reading have food writers as bad as you?
ReplyDeleteWhy are you bothering with this blog? You can't write and you've got nothing to say. You're slagging off people who write very well about interesting subjects. How embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteDitto comment above. Arrogant, badly written, and no useful content whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - it's a pleasure - thank you ;)
ReplyDeleteA bit of sympathy people, by the sounds of things, the author lives and works in Reading.
ReplyDeletePunishment enough, believe me!
This was a bad, bad effort at a blog.
ReplyDeleteRayner is an good reviewer with an even better record in below-the-line mea culpa, therefore nonsense like this is not needed.