The Critics

Observer critic Jay Rayner explains why "posh restaurants are wasted on the rich." Quote: "Right now there's a luxe food economy, focused on a couple of London postcodes, which is entirely supported by a grotesque, preening, Louboutin-heeled, gold-plated iPhone-carrying, plastic-crashing, Bugatti-driving, natural resource-pillaging excuse for humanity that floats like some gold-flecked scummy head on the warm beer of the rest of an economy simply trying to make do." He calls dining out with such types "a complete and utter hell." [Observer][Photo: Daniel Krieger]