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there are more than 50,000 restaurants in the UK turning over about 25 billion pounds a year

So how do you decide where to go? Well a restaurant reviews, but there are a lot of them about these days in newspapers

The long- established guides such as

Michelin plus now lots of online review sites it's a heated world sometimes

overheated.

All of these different media competing to be the most reliable,

and to make our decisions even more complicated,

chefs and restaurateurs can now respond instantly and publicly to criticism they don't think is fair.

Nottingham Chef Sat Baines, for instance, is one who's notorious for your business.

And even newspaper reviewers who have long and established track records can no longer

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