Hey, we’re not picky – we’ll take plaudits where we can get them, so when Michael Tomasky, columnist for New York Magazine and blogger for the Guardian praised London’s restaurants in a roundabout kind of way, we were happy to get the praise.
In a blog for the Guardian today, Tomasky uses President Sarkozy’s visit to America to soundly trash the restaurant experiences he had in Paris recently. ‘I'd be hard pressed to say we had one really good meal in Paris,’ he writes. ‘In fact we ate a lot of mediocre meals, and one outright awful one, at a brasserie in St. Germain that was close to disgusting.’
Happily by comparison London served Tomasky well, although apparently it’s a complete disgrace to suggest to the French that this city’s food is better than Paris. ‘Here's the final insult,’ he says. ‘we ate better in London. Every restaurant on Charlotte Street - our hotel was there, and we tried three of them - was better than anywhere we ate in Paris.’
Well we could have told him that.
