{"id":5268,"date":"2009-01-18T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2021-11-01T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:56:46","slug":"reads-got-the-looks-but-not-the-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=5268","title":{"rendered":"Reads &#8211; got the looks but not the substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A while back Gordon Ramsay described Michelin-starred David Pitchford restaurant <a title=\"Reads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reads<\/a>, just outside Faversham as his 11th favorite restaurant in the UK (in the Sunday Times if I remember correctly).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Unfortunately our visit was a bit of a disappointment, at least on the food front, which was a real shame as the venue is quite lovely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is really sad that so many places get this balance wrong.\u00a0 The restaurant has 3 AA Rosettes, which is 2 too many in my view.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back Gordon Ramsay described Michelin-starred David Pitchford restaurant Reads, just outside Faversham as his 11th favorite restaurant in the UK (in the Sunday Times if I remember correctly). Unfortunately our visit was a bit of a disappointment, at least on the food front, which was a real shame as the venue is quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=5268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reads &#8211; got the looks but not the substance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,238,8],"tags":[257,43,256],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-michelin-star","category-kent","category-uk","tag-david-pitchford","tag-gordon-ramsay","tag-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30031,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions\/30031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}