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I don't think you can tell the chef's or cook's gender or race or culture, and if you try to guess then sometimes you'll be correct and feel smug or you'll be incorrect and surprised. This is because there are men and women cooking in the different ways and people of all origins trying various cuisines or doing 'fusion'.

Maybe it will be easier to get a table at Gavroche than Petrus.

True ! But they are nevertheless always entertaining. Thanks very much for explanation.

Agree. Although the AA website says 70, it's definitely much less than that. Why would the restaurant say they have more seats than reality ? Another bit of GR PR ?

Is it true that restaurant critic A. A. Gill does not drink wine with his restaurant meals ?

ORTIE would be stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) as in nettle soup.

For the UK and according to the AA website :- Waterside Inn - 75 Gordon Ramsay - 70 Fat Duck - 40 (it is a converted pub after all)

In Southall, I suggest you try Gifto's on the north side of the main road. From Shepherd's Bush you can take bus 607 or 207.

I have lunch booked at Le Grand Vefour in November. Is there a dress code ? Can I dress in smart casual or do I need a jacket & tie ?

So who is the head chef at the Savoy Grill as it can't be Marcus Wareing as he's busy at Petrus ?

I think the head chef here is Simone Zanoni and Mark Askew is in the NYC restaurant.

If you are trying to impress Japanese associates, why take them to a Japanese restaurant here when there's plenty of these in Japan ? What about l'Atelier ?

Looking at it objectively, I can understand why the restaurants should be closed at least one day for family or working hours reasons. But I was just comparing the Paris scenario with the London one, I estimate that 54 % of the starred restaurants are open on Sundays, and these are open 7 days lunch and dinner, and this applies to most other London restaurants as well. They are busy because I think that people like to eat out on a Sunday now. So if most of the starred Paris restaurants are closed on Sundays, then does that mean that there is little customer demand or does that mean that the few restaurants that are open are very busy ? I just want to know what to plan for.

I'm planning to go to Paris for a weekend in the autumn with my daughter and I've been finding out the opening times of the restaurants for Sundays. Out of the 65 or so starred restaurants, only about 13 seem to open on a Sunday. Why is this the case ? Is there some employment restrictions or some social reasons for why the majority of these restaurants are closed on Sundays ?

Michelin UK/Ireland stars history :- http://www.michelin.co.uk/travel/red2006/index.htm

Was this title not invented by the brothers Galvin ? Has Arbutus taken their crown ?

The Walpole on St Marys Road in Ealing London, open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and Friday and Saturday for dinner.

26th January Arbutus should get a BIB.

There is a My Old Dutch in Bloomsbury

The Walpole in Ealing - the chef is Louis Loizia who I understand opened at Cantina del Ponte, and FOH is wife Wendy. Well cooked food and large portions! But dinner is Friday and Saturday only.

Matthew Norman, in the Guardian as well, was even more scathing. http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/expert...1867168,00.html

From all the glowing reports and the reasonable prices, is this place a definite Bib Gourmand in the 2007 Red Book ?

Also great news for Vineet Bhatia and Brett Graham (The Ledbury) Post #80 It must be doubly disappointing for well-regarded La Trompette to miss out yet again when its new young sibling The Ledbury has got its star now.

Where will Anthony Demetre's 'new place up west' be ?