The Professional version hasn’t been broadcast this year. It normally airs beginning of November, any word on what’s happening?
Not heard anything. And it’s definitely too late in the year for it to be broadcast. I did read somewhere that, replacing Wallace, will be TV chef Matt Tebbutt (sp?), alongside Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti
Me too. Such a way with words she has!!
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It took a while for this review to grab me but, when I got to “crespelle al pistacchio” I was wondering if it was worth a four hour round trip on the train just for that.
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Loved this! 
…“it also has great lighting that momentarily diffuses a double chin, and pretty cutlery that makes a woman feel as if her hands are somehow daintier.”
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Gilt-framed vinegar menu 
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In reading the comments, this one was exactly how I felt! Thought it was an awful name at first!
"I spent the first half of the time I was reading the review trying to work out what a Coren-ucopia was, and wondering if she’d got into bed with The Times food critic. It only dawned on me when I read the reference to ‘Core’. "
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A scathing review.
The best line: “Guinness, let the record show, cannot organise a piss-up in a brewery.”
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Deliciously vicious! And you have to go from the ground floor to the 5th floor for the bathrooms? WTH?
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This place sounds a bit bonkers. I’m glad I have found a nice Georgian restaurant in Cardiff.
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I know a couple of restaurants near me where you have to go outside to get to the toilets. Went to one of them about a year ago when it was throwing it down with rain. Not fun.
Reminds me of when I was house-hunting in the Richmond-Twickenham area in the early 90’s and the estate agent showed me a place with the refrigerator out in the garden. “I only want to see places with all major appliances inside” I then specified, not having realized it needed saying.
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“We ordered a whole sea bream to be cooked via that live fire, which turned out to be an enormous mistake. The first warning sign was that it took so very, very long to arrive, during which time there was a curious period when a great many cooks peered into the live fire, poked the fish and shrugged their shoulders. Eventually, a plate of mush with one eye and floppy skin attached was placed before me.”
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They clearly didn’t clock she is a well-known restaurant reviewer. I can’t believe they served that to any customer, let alone Grace Dent, who is very recognisable.
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I wonder about that. I’ve seen unposed photos of her that don’t much look like her press photo.
I’m with ernie. I suspect that if she had her hair down, so different from her usual image, many folk wouldnt recognise her.
