Wine Tips

Well, he hasn`t.

I`ve been carping about the abuse of food in London for years; particularly with regard to the Costas and Starbucks which have replaced most of the indigenous London eateries.

London, which used to be a city which overfed its visitors- when the British ran London, currently is a city which deceives.

You can get a 4-course meal in a Parisian workmen`s cafe for under a fiver. And the New York City coffee shops also offer superb value on top of exquisite service. (You are treated royally in a NYC coffee shop and you only have to spend a couple of dollars)

Okay, so Oliver envisages a chain of cheap-0 Italian pasta palaces.

Not at £5 a throw Jamie. Unless you want to throw in a salad; bread and butter; coffee; and a glass of house wine.

The Chinese do it in Soho. Cheap and cheerful at large refectory tables.

Now that`s amore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!