Marco Pierre White – currently in New York to film a reality TV show called Chopping Block – has proclaimed the Big Apple “the most exciting restaurant city in the world”.
And, for good measure, he adds that it’s “more exciting than London”. In fact, Marco really does seem to have swallowed wholesale all this “best city in the world” guff which New Yorkers so love. You can, for example, eat better Spanish food there “than you do in Spain”, apparently.
“France is France, England is England, Rome is Rome”, we are told. (Which is very odd, because, as well all know, the main difference between Paris and Rome on the one hand, and London on the other, is that the English capital hasn’t traditionally offered a great deal of native cuisine.) NYC restaurants, in supposed contrast to these stuffy old-world cities, are “multidimensional”. And “sexy” too.
And just in case the message isn’t clear enough, MPW also tells nymag.com that “the restaurants I’ve been to [in NYC] would cost double in London for the quality and environment”.
Bless him. Don’t Brits make great advocates for their country?
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