Slur on best chef: Letter

Thursday 17 October 1996 23:02 BST

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Sir: It is not my habit to attack other guidebooks, but it is a hair-raising outrage that the AA has stripped of its fifth rosette what I am convinced is by far the country's best restaurant.

Michel Roux, chef-patron of the Waterside Inn, at Bray, Berkshire, is in my view this country's greatest chef and this absurdity will not reflect on him but on the AA Guide which should perhaps be "inspected".

It will probably comes as a slight surprise to Her Majesty the Queen, whose 70th birthday dinner was supplied by the man who everyone except the AA thinks is Britain's most exceptional chef.

EGON RONAY

London SW3

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