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Taking Subway Down

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Top critic tries and fails to find something nice to say about Subway

I would like to think I'm not a food snob: in my job as a restaurant reviewer I've visited Heston Blumenthal and Pizza Hut and found points to favour and to criticise in both. But I've avoided Subway until now. I'd thought it was a sandwich bar, and a sandwich is a sandwich, right? Wrong. My visit yesterday revealed that these are no sandwiches, that Subway's slogan "Eat fresh" is scandalously misleading, and that it may be fast, but it certainly ain't cheap.

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Busaba Eathai – Ten Years On

Lisa Markwell, The Independent On Sunday
Is this lauded Thai stop-off in Soho really any better than all the rest?
I don’t expect much sympathy (all right, any), but visiting new restaurants can be tiring. The day’s preparation: not eating too much, avoiding scorched tastebuds from too-hot coffee, remembering pseudonym the table is booked under, and so on. To say nothing of the occasional fear involved. For instance, tonight I’m going to Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and the media frenzy and elaborate ? some might say perversely ? historically accurate menu is making me nervous. (You’ll be able to read my review in a fortnight.)
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