Since when was Ilkay Gundogan's wife captain of Manchester City?
Angel Di Maria | Performances | Wife: "He only joined United for money. The food was disgusting. The women look like porcelain"
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How is this even news, or controversial in the least sense? It's perfectly okay to not like local food, since it's such a subjective thing.
It looks like she was asked the question as well. I don't know how her response warrants her coming 'under fire'.
Had no idea Gungodan was their captain.
There’s 11 restaurants in the Michelin guide, one of which has a star.
I also find it strange she can’t find a decent Italian in a city that has a strong link to Italy going back 100 years as noted in this article.
https://www.manchestersfinest.com/manchester-guides/the-best-italian-restaurants-in-manchester/
Same thing with sushi.
All of this took me 5 minutes and I don’t even live in Manchester and am not married to a millionaire.
Just sounds like snobbery to me.
Any major city has decent food whatever your tastes. Her criticism was also that restaurants want to make money off drinks.... I mean she's one of the few uber rich people that wouldn't have any effect on.
I do get the issue that Silva brought up re lifestyle, it is very different in the UK to Portugal/Spain/Italy and there are some major differences but the type of food you have access to isn't really one of them.
Haha that's funny. Manchester has lots of good restaurants. 'Everything is frozen' my ass, San Carlo has decent italian food for instance, and fresh as well.
I think when people talk about restaurants being good they don't mean the absolute high end cuisine, just the regular places.
This is unbearable.
I will have to go to Manchester personally and find out whether what they say is true or not.
I wanted to know what the experience would be like for an Italian there, so I found this review from one of the restaurants mentioned in that article interesting:
Maybe it is just different standards.
I will have to go to Manchester personally and find out whether what they say is true or not.
I wanted to know what the experience would be like for an Italian there, so I found this review from one of the restaurants mentioned in that article interesting:
Maybe it is just different standards.
As someone who's lived for years in both Greece and England, I've noticed an absolutely massive difference in quality between eating out, with me preferring Greece in almost every regard in that sense.
In general, the food was more fresh, higher quality, tasted better and was also a lot cheaper. This is for the same kind of meals too; ie. simple things such as chips are often so much nicer in Greek restaurants, in my opinion. Of course, I found there was exceptions to the rule for both countries, but I've probably eaten at over 100 different restaurants in both countries and I've been very disappointed in the quality for the price I pay here. But that's mainly due to the standards I've had coming from Greece. The thing about Greece is there is much more independently run restaurants competing as small business and this competition raises the quality.
Though I'm talking about the kind of restaurant available to the average middle class person. I can't compare the most expensive restaurants because I never really visited them.
In general, the food was more fresh, higher quality, tasted better and was also a lot cheaper. This is for the same kind of meals too; ie. simple things such as chips are often so much nicer in Greek restaurants, in my opinion. Of course, I found there was exceptions to the rule for both countries, but I've probably eaten at over 100 different restaurants in both countries and I've been very disappointed in the quality for the price I pay here. But that's mainly due to the standards I've had coming from Greece. The thing about Greece is there is much more independently run restaurants competing as small business and this competition raises the quality.
Though I'm talking about the kind of restaurant available to the average middle class person. I can't compare the most expensive restaurants because I never really visited them.
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What that has todo with Di Maria... I thought someone was going to post his assists hattrick from yesterday.
Everyone knows manchester weather and food sucks
Everyone knows manchester weather and food sucks
He only joined united for money; she only married him for money. Make it full statement and we are good.
That's shite for a city the size of Manchester. London has dozens of stars.
There are good restaurants but there aren't good Italian restaurants. Not many places outside Italy manage it, even the bordering countries like Switzerland. I guess you can't get the authentic, fresh ingredients so you have to add garlic, herbs, spices etc to bring out the flavour. It can be nice but it won't taste like the real thing.
Even in London when I visit with Italian colleagues, there are about two restaurants they will all happily go to and everybody here in Milan seems to know about them.
Nosferatu has awakened. Speaking of, I see Bill Skarsgard will star as Di Maria Nosferatu in a planned reboot/remake.
It isn’t that controversial.
69 restaurants I think with 5 that have 3 stars.
Even in London I wouldn't hestitate to say that the general quality of food you can expect to encounter in restaurants and shops are not remotely up to the level you can confidently expect pretty much throughout France and southern Europe. I don't think I've ever visited even a fairly small French city that didn't have several REALLY excellent restaurants with a price level that would be considered very moderate in London. And that's speaking as a northern European who've grown up in a food culture that's really no better, and who actually like stuff like sausage rolls. For someone of a mediterranean background I have no problem understanding that anywhere in the UK would appear pretty drab on that front.
Here's the beauty of uk culture. No one forces you to eat local food. The real tragedy is that she probably the type that doesn't enjoy indian.
Where the feck are all these wags going for food? You can find great food in every city with a vast range of different cuisines. It’s far more likely they’re just spoilt, fussy cnuts.
Think it's primarily that the England has no culture behind it which has influenced the food through lack of tradition. I'm from the UK but have traveled and the quality difference is clear not just in restaurants but even the meat / produce which has to be an agricultural issue.
Frankly I wasn't overly impressed with the level of international cuisine in London restaurants either. Including, and much to my surprise, the Indian restaurants.
I don't think she's complaining about the drink prices, she's saying that making money on alcohol is the priority rather than offering high quality food.
I agree, the quality gap is if anything even more pronounced in shops than it is in restaurants.
I'm no expert, but I've been led to believe that the issue is perhaps not so much a lack of food culture historically (England does have one!) as the impact of the first half of the 20th century, when there were long periods of rationing or limited availability, stretching into the 1960s. In some ways the situation was worse, and lasted longer, in Britain than on the continent. People just got used to really bad food, and food traditions are fairly vulnerable - one generation of bad cooking and reliance on bad produce, and it's pretty much gone, isn't it. Also I'd assume the same period would have killed off a lot of smaller and local quality producers that are really the backbone of any quality food culture.
Whaaaa? She obvs married him for the ears.
Yeah, there's some truth to that.
For one thing, there's a lower tolerance for - say - mediocre food. Not necessarily crap food (hardly anyone tolerates that), but food that isn't 100% freshly made or otherwise lacking in certain aspects: the attitude seems to be that if you're going to charge people for dinner, the minimum expectation is that it's 100% fresh and better/more expertly prepared than an average person could manage at home. I have a cousin who's lived in France for decades - and she's like that. High standards compared to mine - but perfectly normal there.
By contrast, I'm more of a "you get what you pay for" kind of person: if I go to a random, moderately priced place and order something, I won't be too disappointed if the food is okay-ish at best. And I usually eat (or order) out because I'm too lazy to cook anything myself, so if it's at least edible it does serve a purpose.
Different "food cultural" mindsets, I guess. It's not so much that I'm so used to mediocre food that I can't recognize it for what it is - more a case of not caring that much about the quality unless I pay through the teeth for it.
There are certainly quite a few of those in Manchester; I’ve had the misfortune to have been to some of them.
The irony is that they mainly exist to cater for footballers and their hangers-on. There are plenty of places that aren’t like that.
I’d be a lot more inclined to respect her opinion if she had the guts to stick her head above the parapet and name the places she so dislikes.
You lot got time on your hands...... who gives a feck?
Just bitter that they ended up living in Manchester rather then "glamourous" places like paris madrid or milan so nothing is good enough. Cry me a river princess.
That's how even the most fancy restaurants make money though and it happens everywhere, it's not just some UK phenomenon
It’s one of those things, once it catches on, it’s hard to fight - even if it’s not reflective of reality. People will just say it.
I’ve seen people from Munich saying “I heard it rains a lot in Manchester”
Manchester is not the horrible place to live that people make it out to be, there are good restaurants and night life places, even more so if you’re a millionaire, but alas.
Alcohol can be the moneymaker without the quality of the food being low priority. I have no idea if what she's saying is accurate, but that is her claim as I understand it.
These WAGS always bashing Manchester.. where exactly are they comparing it to?
The people at TimeOut always seem rank us quite highly (13th), but it depends what floats your boat. Manchester's strengths will always be around arts and culture, creative industries, and of course, sports! They should have married a chef if they wanted to live in a city with amazing food.
The people at TimeOut always seem rank us quite highly (13th), but it depends what floats your boat. Manchester's strengths will always be around arts and culture, creative industries, and of course, sports! They should have married a chef if they wanted to live in a city with amazing food.
It's quite bizarre the attacks on UK food as well as those trying to call up centuries old British food as if that's the norm when the cities are heavily populated by many different cultures and ethnicities providing many places to eat, it's not all fish and chips and beef wellington. It's calling out all Latin Europeans here, the South and East Asians, Middle East and African people.
Maybe some of the produce that is grown here is not up to scratch for ingredients, at least in certain times of the year potato quality drops but it seems like they just don't like the environment or feel of the place as much of the produce is imported. You could bring the best cooks and ingredients from Italy to Hale Barns, cook them something and they'd still pull their face like they're eating mud.
Maybe some of the produce that is grown here is not up to scratch for ingredients, at least in certain times of the year potato quality drops but it seems like they just don't like the environment or feel of the place as much of the produce is imported. You could bring the best cooks and ingredients from Italy to Hale Barns, cook them something and they'd still pull their face like they're eating mud.
I was going to say
I live in Trondheim, Norway. Where Rosenborg comes from, and have about 180k inhabitants, we have three Micheline star restaurants.I doubt that. And as previously stated, I don't think the standard of international food is that high in the UK either. It's just general low expectations I think. You see it in everything, from the quality of stuff in supermarkets to the availability of high-quality produce to what you can expect at an average random restaurant to how good and numerous the high-end restaurants are. Not that my own country (Norway) is much different, or better, in most of those categories.
This will be a matter of taste, but in London I found that the best bets for a good quality/price ratio was either really cheap asian takeaways (which was usually ok quality for very low price), Döner Kebabs (where the UK totally rules), sausage rolls in pubs, tracking down Italian restaurants with normal price levels but a really good kitchen (they do exist, often in surprising places like just off Clapham Junction) or else go to really good places that are pricey but not luxury-level pricey, like Barrafina.
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Probably got shown around by Mr. Stephen Howson and pranked to eat at the worst restaurant.
Maybe she’s implying they believe if they can put enough drinks in you the food doesn’t matter?
I can attest through years of 2 AM Taco Bell research in college that this eating strategy totally works. Best crap tacos I ever ate.
She does look like she has a high taste for everything until you look at her husband.
Not to be rude, but if you've not found 'international cuisine' that you like in London, that's more a you thing as opposed to a London thing.
Sorry, that came out wrong...I didn't mean to seem snotty. What I meant was that it's all about knowing where to go. I've eaten fantastic south Asian food in London but I've also had some dreadful curries. Similarly, I've had some amazing Italian food in Puglia but I've also had some massive disappointments. I think you can almost always find great places to eat in big cities if you know where to look.