‘Absolutely fascinating and wittily written . . . This is a laugh-out-loud title with lots of bitchy restaurant gossip, so it deserves to be a hit’ – The Bookseller

‘Kitchen Con is the perfect book for anyone who loves dining out but thinks that fussy French waiters should probably be put down’ – Toby Young, author

‘A cracking read . . . Kitchen Confidential for an entire generation of people who read more menus than recipes’ – Sunday Independent

‘Trevor White writes with witty intelligence and a sharply elegant pen. Once this book has dropped into the frying pan, nothing will ever be the same in the restaurant world’ – A.C. Grayling, philosopher and Booker Prize judge

‘In the age of the all-powerful celebrity chef, the restaurant critic should perform a crucial function - weeding out quality from dross. Yet, says Trevor White, today's critic faces bribery, threats and legal action. Here, White fights back at his tormentors, and lists the ways restaurants abuse us, their clientele’ – The Observer

‘I'll be totally honest and say that whenever I have accepted the offer of a book, I have had absolutely no intention - zero - of blogging about it.  And I never have.  More often, I end up flicking through it in front of the TV, putting it aside five minutes later and forgetting about it.  And I expected to do exactly that when a preview copy of Trevor White's Kitchen Con arrived four days ago.  But after I opened it on Tuesday, I couldn't put the thing down.’ – Noodlepie

‘Eating out rather lost its appeal after reading White's sharp and funny exposé of the restaurant business. As a restaurant critic, he is well placed to dish the dirt, reserving no less criticism for his own profession’  – Publishing News

‘Kitchen Con is an entertaining account of White's life as a restaurant critic. It also gives an account of the social history of restaurant criticism, focuses on the rise of the celebrity chef and offers an expose of the restaurant business.’  – RTE

‘White has a knockabout charm and gift of the gab. You can well understand why the magazine he founded - The Dubliner - has spawned Ireland's bestselling restaurant guide. His breathless style is delightfully punchy, witty, fluent, opinionated and epigrammatic.’
–The Mail on Sunday

‘A practical and funny guide to dining out, complete with restaurant gossip, in which food critic Trevor White tells all. We love it.’ – Irish Independent

‘A blissful mix of memoir, gossip and polemic from the well-travelled and charismatic editor of the Dubliner... elegantly and entertainingly written.’ – Restaurant Spy

‘Entertaining and provocative... Kitchen Con is a funny, scathing, worrying, eye-watering eye-opener of an account of life as a restaurant critic and an exposé of the restaurant business.’ – News and Star

‘An illuminating and witty polemic on culinary egomaniacs and our obsession with eating out.’ – The Times