Dear Log,
«The Aberdeen Steak House chain is a West End phenomenon, consisting of 16 Angus steak houses, six Aberdeen and one Highland steak house, two Maxine's Brasseries, three Pizza Pasta joints, an American Burger restaurant and that solecism, the American Café Bistro. The ghosts of a dead, aspirational culture haunt these bleak houses - one can imagine a time in the 70s when these places may have seemed, with their sumptuous decor and thick steaks, like top-class nosh. Today, they are anything but. Few British voices are heard here: instead the air is dominated by curt exchanges in bad English between the otherwise blameless Ukranian waitress and her polyglot clientele.»
