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A very readable memoir that is often scathing about the culture of hospitality especially around misogyny but around working conditions too. Everything from sick pay, working hours, safety in the workplace, bullying, the allocation of service charges presents a picture of an industry with a massive problem.

Even the lack of a decent learning culture seems insane, cooks are forced to learn how to cook by making countless mistakes and wasting expensive ingredients instead of being the responsibility of senior chefs to explain and help introduce new starters to the food.

There is also an angry aside on the failure in 2020 to have a joined up policy for hospitality with people being encouraged to avoid socialising before the furlough scheme was in place.

The book does have a love of food and a good night but the bigger picture of an industry in desperate need of change and for the relationship between diners and those who serve them to be reset.