Jay Rayner quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

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