The rating scale is an amalgamation of multiple factors, usually discussed with my and my partner on the taxi journey home after an extradorinaiy amount of wine.

The ratings are based off how well the restaurant excels in its class, not how the restaurant compares to the rest of the restaurants on earth, as that would be absurd (I’m also yet to try them all, despite my best efforts)

Although I am not a food critic, despite it being a job that requires little to no qualification apart from having a mouth, I will try to skip the mediocre shit and just give you restaurants you’re guaranteed to enjoy, or ones to avoid like the bubonic plague.

I see this more as a form of charity, saving you from shite meals and saving countless relationships via ruined anniversary dinners and snobby mothers-in-law.