Mulberry Street

Press Reviews (3)

• AA Gill (17th July 2007)
  2/5 stars
  
  Mr Gill muses about restaurant criticism in general, and more particularly the apparent spate of recent anti-critical court judgements around the world in recent times. Unfortunately, the factual premise for his article is wrong. The owners of the Sydney restaurant concerned have not “just successfully sued a critic for a bad review”. All that has happened is that a court found that certain adverse statements could be defamatory: no real news there. However, the court has not yet even begun to determine whether either or both of the two relevant defences are applicable. So there’s no judgement at all as yet on justification (were the statements true?) or ‘fair comment’ (which protects non-malicious criticism, however trenchant, in most parts of the English-speaking world). (For an exhaustive review of the subect, see this article [http://www.cearta.ie/2007/06/unpalatable-defamatory-restaurant-reviews]
• Marina O’Loughlin (25th June 2007)
  2/5 stars
  
  For her secondary review, Ms O’L reviews what “claims to be the first New York-style ‘neighbourhood’ pizza joint in London. Her conclusion: “a cheap, fun place to go in a group for a bite of the Apple – but that's about it”.
• Terry Durack (18th June 2007)
  13/20 points
  
  Rather unusually, it’s a national, not a London, medium which breaks the news of a place that bills itself as “London’s only authentic New York pizza joint”. It does, as it turns out, serve up “one mother of a pizza”. Only the “supersize-me” element of the operation, however, “seems to be the New York contribution”: this is an operation “more Italian than American, with most of the staff hailing from Naples.