A restaurant critic who really counts: meet Lord Cadogan

Celeb brasserie shuttered by landlord for bad food and high prices……

Lord Cadogan (worth $2 billion) who owns a chunk of Chelsea has summarily put one of his tenants out of business. Oriel, a celeb hang on Sloane Sq hasn’t had much respect from critics but what do they matter?  Lord Cadogan had only to say  ”he didn’t like the food and the prices were too high”  and Oriel is toast.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245371/Landlord-Earl-Cadogan-shuts-exclusive-London-restaurant-The-Oriel-didnt-like-meal.html#ixzz0dTAADySL

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About Gina Mallet

Gina Mallet is the author of Last Chance to Eat, The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World, which won the 2005 James Beard Award for writing on food, an account of the lost world of eating. She is a former theatre critic, and now the restaurant critic for the National Post of Canada.
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