Jay Rayner is leaving The Observer after 25 years as its restaurant critic, to join the Financial Times – which means that for many readers his weekly reviews will disappear behind a paywall. Marina O’Loughlin, formerly of the Sunday Times and before that The Guardian, has also joined the FT and will write a monthly column […]
A happy week for the majority of the critics, with pork pies, new experiences and old friends. Only Marina O’Loughlin’s trip to West Sussex (“England by Disney”) Â and Ed Smith’s visit to Bagatelle (“nothing to swerve for”) were disappointments. Continuing from last week’s homage to the dumpling and pastry-encased leftovers, Jay Rayner in The Observer […]
