Look what Kitchen Rat found while digging about the internet, the Evening Standard's food section of their The 1000: London's Most Influential People.
All the usual candidates are there: your Ramsays, your Olivers, your Alan Yaus.
Then there are some other, less obvious, choices. Like photographer Jason Lowe, who some might argue only snaps food (however well is a side issue) and doesn't have the commercial power and celebrity of, say, Richard Corrigan, or the Michelin-starred restaurants (Chez Bruce, The Square) of Nigel Platts-Martin, neither of who feature.
Other noticeably bizarre entries, this time in the up and coming section: journalist Joe Warwick and Ching-he Huang, the apparent TV chef (Chinese food made easy), cookbook writer and entrepreneur, who unlike, say, Matt Hermer, owner of Ignite Group, doesn't have a host of celebrity popular bars and, in Bumpkin, a soon-to-be-ubiquitous mid-sector restaurant concept.
If you've looked at the website already you'll notice the Evening Standard's Fay Maschler makes it into the top tier. Unsurprising really if you've heard the same rumours the Rat has; that she wrote it herself.
And what does teh endearingly modest Ms Maschler have to say of herself? "Never one to pull punches on the below par, a good review from her still guarantees a full house." We'd all like to write our own reviews.
Does anybody really care who's the most Influential person in london
Get a grip fay.go get yourself a make over.Shed that haggard old jewish bint look its been done to death.