Jay Rayner compares Mr Cooper's House and Garden to 'cheap garden centre cafe' The Guardian critic described the restaurant at Manchester's Midland Hotel as … Located in the heart of the famous Brighton Lanes, The Flint House offers counter-level dining, small plates with beautiful wines by the glass, a glamorous first-floor cocktail bar and rooftop terrace. He was born in London in 1966 and has written extensively across the British and international media as both feature writer and columnist on everything from crime and politics, to the arts and fashion. The Jewish News Podcast He was brought up in the Sudbury Hill area of Harrow and attended the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Baroness Tonge to step down from the House of Lords ... David Baddiel, Jay Rayner, Michael Rosen and Robert Rinder at Jewish Book Week. Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, best known as restaurant critic for the Observer.He is a former Critic of the Year and Restaurant Critic of the Year, and in the 2014 British Press Awards he was short-listed for both Critic of the Year and Specialist Journalist of the Year. Recently I was interviewed by Jay Rayner, the longtime restaurant critic at the Observer in London, about the differences between American and U.K. restaurant criticism. About Jay Rayner. He is a former Critic of the Year and Restaurant Critic of the Year, and in the 2014 British Press Awards he was short-listed… More about Jay Rayner The Flint House team A modern restaurant and bar by Gingerman Restaurant Group’s Ben and Pamela McKellar. Jay Rayner is at the House of Commons, paying 180 quid for the pleasure of three courses of thoroughly “mediocre cooking”. The menu is “overwritten”, the product of a kitchen “straining at a modernity it might have read about once in a magazine.” Crab with crème fraiche (also: pineapple!) He is the younger son of Desmond Rayner and journalist Claire Rayner.His family is Jewish. Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster. The Marble Kiss. Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, best known as restaurant critic for the Observer. Early life. My first novel, and not published in 1971, when I was five years old, as claimed. Jason Matthew Rayner was born on 14 September 1966. Delhi House Cafe earned warm words from The Observer's respected Jay Rayner in his latest restaurant review. The Oyster House Siege [Rayner, Jay] on Amazon.com. 1994. The Oyster House Siege Buy on Amazon. By Francine Wolfisz.