{"product_id":"noble-rot-43","title":"Noble Rot #42","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwo Oscar-winning actors on the cover, a World Cup winner’s guide to eating and drinking in Madrid, and a tribute to the late Michael Winner. We seem to have taken the theme of this issue rather literally, then made it worse by launching \u003cstrong\u003ethe first Noble Rot Restaurant Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e. We’ve been known to say that awards are bollocks – unless we win one, in which case they’re a long-overdue recognition of talent. After years of picking holes in Michelin and The 50 Best, we sent \u003cstrong\u003eMarina O’Loughlin\u003c\/strong\u003e to find out how they work, then decided it was only fair to let everyone pick holes in ours. You’ve more chance of finding Lord Lucan than of discovering who judges most awards. So we collected votes from 117 people whose taste we trust – contributors, chefs, restaurateurs, the odd Oscar winner – printed the results and the names of everyone who’d let us, hung a medal of James Gillray’s gout-ridden foot round the neck of a bottle of Pol Roger ‘Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill’ and called it a trophy. The results are on page 4. Please don’t write in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAlso in this issue…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e… \u003cstrong\u003eOlivia Colman\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJessie Buckley\u003c\/strong\u003e have dinner at Noble Rot Mayfair. Colman recalls a Greek rooftop, a shitload of mai tais and singing till four in the morning when Buckley was due on set at six. Buckley tells us oysters and chips with a dirty martini would be her death-row meal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e… \u003cstrong\u003eDan Keeling\u003c\/strong\u003e spends two days eating and drinking his way round David Silva’s favourite restaurants and bars in Madrid, as the World Cup winner explains how a bottle of Tenerife red led him to buy vines in Gran Canaria and why seven years in wine have brought him more friends than 20 in football.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e… In ‘My Most Extraordinary Meal’, \u003cstrong\u003eJancis Robinson\u003c\/strong\u003e recalls a 66-wine marathon at Château d’Yquem co-hosted by the wine fraudster Hardy Rodenstock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e… \u003cstrong\u003eGiles Coren\u003c\/strong\u003e remembers \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e as the patron saint of restaurant critics: the man who took on the taxman and won, so that he and others could claim restaurant meals against tax, and who terrified British restaurateurs into raising their standards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlus: \u003cstrong\u003eHenry Harris\u003c\/strong\u003e reflects on his love of Lyonnais food; \u003cstrong\u003eMarina O’Loughlin \u003c\/strong\u003ereviews Paris’s \u003cstrong\u003eBistrot Paul Bert\u003c\/strong\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eJeremy King\u003c\/strong\u003e explains the art of being a good guest; \u003cstrong\u003eLevi Dalton\u003c\/strong\u003e follows the Burgundians making wine everywhere from Oregon to Japan; and \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Walters\u003c\/strong\u003e looks at Michelin Grapes classifying Burgundy. There are also stories on \u003cstrong\u003eMallorcan\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eAzorean\u003c\/strong\u003e wines, \u003cstrong\u003eSweetings\u003c\/strong\u003e, the making of \u003cstrong\u003eKeller\u003c\/strong\u003e‘s G-Max and the Georgian-era legend of the ‘\u003cstrong\u003eThree-Bottle Man\u003c\/strong\u003e‘, among much more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROVA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64958076846457,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0213\/5204\/files\/AP-NR-42-COVER-4cae05e4-fbca-47cd-aea5-8a07f5bcfc39.webp?v=1791484240","url":"https:\/\/rovaeditions.co.uk\/products\/noble-rot-43","provider":"ROVA ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}