Restaurant Critic AA Gill Finally Incites Actual Violence

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Chris Price
A.A. Gill, or an approximation thereof
Here's something that should help to put M. Wells' issues with Alan Richman in perspective: Over in Wales, the chef of an establishment called the Brecon Beacons actually attacked a kitchen worker after a restaurant critic called his meal "disgusting."

To be fair, the critic was The Sunday Times' A.A. Gill, a man whose savagery with the written word could probably cause the queen to pick a fight with a nun. Still, there's no excuse for violence, and the chef, who was reportedly "intoxicated" at the time of the incident, did a number on his colleague: After attempting -- and failing -- to punch him, he pushed him down three steps. All while using "foul language."

The chef was given an 18-month conditional discharge and fined 85 pounds. On his first day back at work he tweeted that he was preparing a tricolore chocolate mousse for the first time in 10 years. Gill later awarded the restaurant four stars. [The Independent via The Food Section]


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Top critic's jibe causes chef to boil over

A chef tried to punch his cook before pushing him down the stairs and told another man he would take his "head off" after criticism from food reviewer A.A. Gill, British news reports say.

Gill, probably the best-known food critic in the world, had finished his meal at The River Cafe at Glasbury-on-Wye, Powys, in Wales in June when he was asked what he thought of it.

"Disgusting," Gill reportedly said, according to documents tended in court.

Furious, Charlie McCubbin, 51, - who later said he sometimes made celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay look tame - swore at his cook Keith McVaigh, 52, and told him he was not to return to his cafe, the BBC reported.

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