A scathing restaurant review 2

[sleipnir214]

A food critic having fun writing about a restaurant that apparently has no redeeming elements.

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2203404,00.html

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[Welshbird]

That's excellent.

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[gbaughma]

Hehe... awesome.



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[traingamer]

Ouch.

Greg
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[Welshbird]

He always writes excellent reviews.

<aside>For those who know who I'm talking about, he's also the son of Claire Rayner; famed agony aunt (famed for talking to phone-ins on TV and saying - "Will you go and make yourself a lovely cup of tea? Will you do that for me lovey?).</aside>

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[tcsbiz]

Telling it like it is; pulling no punches.

Wonderfully funny.

 

[lisaharris]

It almost makes one want to go there, just to find out if the food and atmosphere are really that bad.

 

[sleipnir214]

Disco Retro" nights draw big in a lot of places, so I figure there's gotta be a market for people with no taste.




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[2ffat]

...there's gotta be a market for people with no taste.

If you're talking about art it's called kitsch (think pink lawn flamingos). I don't know what it's called when people can't taste food. ;-)

Maybe scathing is too nice a word for this review. Can anyone come up with a more accurate word?



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[AnotherHiggins]

Vitriolic?

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

I think "scathing" is perfect. A close alternative might be "virulent". How about "scathingly virulent"?

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

Venomous?

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[LNBruno]

Sounds like a death knell....

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[ESquared]

Dismissive
Renouncing?
Denouncing?

 

[DansDadUK]

I suppose that you might class it as a "restauRANT review".

 

[sleipnir214]

The worst possible adjective for that review, in the eyes of the restrant's owners, is most likely accurate




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[kjv1611]

Hilarious! That's the word I'd give it, at least if the reader is not associated with the restaurant.

Thanks for the laughs!

And I have to give a star to DansDadUK, as I think that's the perfect term for this review!


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[mjldba]

Reminds me of a scene from Mel Brook's "History of the World Part I".

The cavemen are painting bison & hunters on the cave walls and, because we are talking about inventing Art, we must now have the art critic and he's passing a bit more than judgement on the paintings.