Restaurant Babylon, Imogen Edwards-Jones literary fiction Robert Hughes takes us on

Robert Hughes takes us on a tour of Italy

Her prose is balanced

can no longer be understood strictly within the purview of territory or nation

and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau—made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles

Restaurant Babylon, Imogen Edwards-Jones literary fiction Robert Hughes takes us onWhat makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and inhospitable as the Gobi desert? Welcome to the restaurant business, where the hours are punishing, the conditions are brutal and the Chef's Special has been languishing at the back of the fridge for the past three days. This is an industry plagued with obsessives. Why else