Restaurant Reviews: Written and Visual

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/reviews/the-providores-restaurant-review-there-seem-to-be-eight-elements-to-each-main-and-thats-before-the-9815178.html

     The name of the restaurant is "The Prodidores and Tapa Room". This reviewer went to the restaurant at lunch time, so he supposed that the atmosphere would be hustle and bustle. However, it was stuffy and hushed. They serve tapas as we can know by the name. The price of the dishes is upper end of what one might expect to pay in central London. The most inexpensive menu is cream of butternut squash with Parmesan and rosemary crouton, and star anise pulled pork. It is £8. The whole dish smells the rosemary, and the hot juicy pork are spicy and delicious. There are a lot of original mains influenced by Asia, and each of them includes a minimum of eight elements. According to the reviewer, they are not bad, or pooly cooked. However, they are very stylish. So, if we go to the restaurant, we are not in the mood for fish and chips. At the end of the review, the reviewer recommends that we go to the restaurant. However, he also recommends that we have our own credit card. We may eat a lot in spite of the high prices.

Q. Does the reviewer show any special "insider" knowledge of the chefs or the restaurant's plans for the future?

A. Yes, he does. He says that Gordon has become very famous in London. He was a consultant for Gourmet Burger Kitchen; executive chef of The Sugar Club, which spread from New Zealand to Notting Hill; and owner of the excellent Kopapa in Covent Garden, where Google bigwigs and Lib Dems breakfast.

Q. From the type of restaurant being reviewed and from the style of writing, what would you guess about the readers of this newspaper?

A. The reviewer says that "The lunch menu is toward the upper end of what one might expect to pay in central London, with only one starter under £10." I guess that the readers are ordinary people, because the reviewer thinks that the price is expensive. I can know it by reading this part, "only one starter under £10."

Q. Does the review include a convenient grid so that the reader can see, at a glance, such facts as the restaurant's location, the price range of menu items, wheelchair accessibility, etc.?

A. No, he doesn't. However, some prices are enclosed in blackets. So, it is easy for the readers to understand.


Q. What additional information can you find out about the restaurant from its Website?
 
A. On Saturday and Sunday, the restaurant holds fantastic Weekend Brunch. It is needed making a reservation.
The providores which is one of the restaurant has private dining room on the first floor. It is hired for  lunch and dinner. 40 guests can seat up and it is the perfect place for an event or party. The guests can choose a personalised three course menu for a sit-down dinner, or a wonderful selection of canapes for a larger group. Also, the restaurant prepares the largest selection of premium New Zealand wines in Europe. The room hire cost includes food, mineral water, tea and coffee. However, the additional drinks take 12.5% charge.

Q. What did you learn about the values of the reviewer and cultural values through this review?

A. I learned that the people of Marylebone in which the restaurant is are upper class. The reason why I could know it is the prices of the restaurant's dishes are expensive, and Marylebone is an area which has some famous boutiques and hotels.

Q. Based on the review, would you and your partner like to try this restaurant? Why or why not?

A. I want to try this restaurant, because I can eat some original Asian dishes in the restaurant. I love Asian food and the reviewer says that the dishes includesa lot of elements. So, I expect that I can experience the taste I have never eaten.

Hamburger

Today, almost all of people have eaten hamburger. It is one of the most popular foods all over the world. However, I suppose that there are few people who have studied about hamburger in this class. So, I will give you some knowledge of hamburger.

 

The first Hamburger was appeared at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri (which also happens to be the birthplace of the ice-cream cone).  It was like a sandwich made by the halves of a bun and a patty. The reason why it was made was that it didn’t need dishes and it was easy to eat.

 

When people want to eat the hamburger, they probably go to a chain of hamburger shop. The style of chain store started in Kansas in 1921. A roadside restaurant run by the Macdonald brothers added hamburgers to the menu in 1948 and it became very popular. After that, the first chain store opened in Chicago, Illinois in 1995. Now, hamburger became a very popular food all over the world.

 

In Japan, the restaurants around a U.S. military base started to make hamburger soon after the war and it became popular among local people. The first hamburger shop opened in 1970 in Haramachida, Tokyo. The next year, hamburger gained popularity because a hamburger shop from foreign country opened in Ginza,Tokyo. A Japanese original hamburger called “Teriyaki burger” was made in 1973 and a lot of Japanese original hamburgers started to be made.

 

There are a lot of McDonald’s restaurants all over the world. However, the menu is different from each country. So, I will introduce some foreign hamburgers of McDonald.

 

The hamburger with three sausages is from Germany. The name is Nurun burger.

Sausage is very popular in German because there are a lot of stands where people can eat sausages. People often eat sausages with mustard on their way home. The combination of sausage and beer is good. The history of sausages are very long. In 17 and 18 century, sausage was very important preserved food because the land wasn’t suitable for cultivation and it was too cold to harvest the crops. Also, sausage can be changed the taste by spices. It was the reason why people could enjoy eating sausages without getting tired of them. These things made sausage popular in German and McDonald’s adopted it as an ingredient.

 

Next, I will explain about my relation with hamburger. When I want to eat hamburger, I always go to the restaurant. I don’t make it myself because the restaurant serves hamburgers which is not only delicious but also low-priced. My favorite restaurant is McDonald’s. Before I entered Aoyama Gakuin University, the image of hamburger was low-priced. It was because I didn’t know another restaurants. However, I found a lot of restaurants where I can eat hamburgers near my university. So, I want to try them.

 

Introduction of My Food-related Book

Currently, I'm reading a book. The book's title is "Uncommon Grounds". The author is Mark Pendergrast. He wrote about how coffee had dominated the economies, politics and social structures of entire countries in this book.

The reason why I chose this book is that I am interested in coffee. I work at a part-time job in a coffee shop. As I worked there, I wanted to get more knowledge about coffee such as history, business, and industry. So, I hope that this book will give them to me.

I haven't read all pages yet, but this book has already given some knowledge to me. For example, the bean called pea berry is considered by someone to possess a slightly more concentrated taste. Also, the pioneer of coffee plantation in Guatemala were German immigrants. I didn't know that the origin of coffee in Guatemala was plantation before reading this book. Thus, this book give me a lot of interesting information. So, I am looking forward to reading the rest of it.

Made In Guatemala: A Day in the Life of a Coffee F

Hello! The book I am reading is related to coffee.

So, I chose this video about a day in the life a coffee farmer in Guatemala.

 



 He always gets up at 5 or 5:30 and works about nine or ten hours.

He walks about one hour to go to his field.

After that, the thing he only has to do is driving for bringing wood down and fertilizer up.

At 5, he starts heading back. His work is very hard,but he doesn't get enough money.

He wants to take better care of the plants that produce more coffee. However, it requres money.

So, he says that the customers have to have the money to invest and be able to wait to see the profits.

 

 

Before I watched this video, I thoght that the coffee farmers could earn enough money.
 It was because the coffee industry became familiar.
 However, the coffee farmer's life is still hard and it is surprising for me.
 This video will also give you a lot of information about coffee.
 So, if you have time, please watch this video!