An open message to Randy Lerner from The Birmingham Mail

[not3bad]

Lerner has a New York restaurant???

He appointed Sweeney Todd as the head chef, not realising the recommendation from Gordon Ramsey was sarcastic.  He keeps the letter in a safe.

[Risso]

Lerner has a New York restaurant???

How many times has he gone into the kitchen and plunged his hand into the deep-fat fryer?

This place in The Hamptons:

http://www.meetinghouseamagansett.com/dinner-menu/

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Lerner has a New York restaurant???

How many times has he gone into the kitchen and plunged his hand into the deep-fat fryer?

This place in The Hamptons:

http://www.meetinghouseamagansett.com/dinner-menu/

The Hamptons?
I've always saw Lerner as a bit of a Hampton.

[James]

"Compelling play and results that instil a sense of confidence that Villa is on the right track have been plainly absent." Randy Lerner (14.05.2012)

They still are, Randy, in fact it's worse! What are you going to do about it now?

[Pat McMahon]

I was in the National Portrait Gallery on Monday and there is a Lerner Wing in there. I don't reckon that will have come cheaply.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

http://www.meetinghouseamagansett.com/dinner-menu/

Interesting menu

STARTERS - Optimism Souffle with an ambitious foam.

MAIN COURSE - braised skillet of non-infrastructure, marinated in an incompetent juss.

DESSERT - Upside down football club cake

Selection of cheesy marketing quotes and Championship arse biscuits

Coffee with no discernible aroma as there is no need to wake up and smell it.

[danno]

The main course isn't goose?! 

[Risso]

http://www.meetinghouseamagansett.com/dinner-menu/

Interesting menu

STARTERS - Optimism Souffle with an ambitious foam.

MAIN COURSE - braised skillet of non-infrastructure, marinated in an incompetent juss.

DESSERT - Upside down football club cake

Selection of cheesy marketing quotes and Championship arse biscuits

Coffee with no discernible aroma as there is no need to wake up and smell it.

With ginger fool for dessert, and a rather insipid 43 year old Scotch to help things go down.

[OzVilla]

What about a Curry dish?  A Lerner Burner.

Exotic flavour at first gives way to rather disappointing shelf of mutton medallions,

 Poonah Naan, bland mountain bread filled with an excrement of your choice. 

Randy Lager, brightly coloured and an unrefreshingly flat finish.

[TopDeck113]

Starter...cooked by our Northern Irish chef who was in post when the current owner bought the restaurant.  Trained under a 2 Michelin star eccentric, whose ability he likes to believe he has.  Raved about by fawning critics, but has tendency to pay over the odds for mediocre ingredients, many of which are left unused, and the resulting dishes flatter to deceive.

Mains...created by our hand-picked French chef, who we plucked from semi-retirement in the land of his birth.  Despite waxing lyrical about his previous gastronomic successes, he started to show some touches of the old genius.   Recently sought the owner's assistance in making a big acquisition that should bring years of pleasure to our customers.  Please do not be alarmed if you see him clutching his chest.

Dessert...Our pastry chef, despite originating from the land of the deep-fried Mars bar, comes highly recommended.  Our owner has a letter from a leading proponent in the art of dourness, vouching for the fact that he did, indeed, know him in his younger days.  We were delighted when we managed to lure him from a neighbouring failing restaurant.  Here he'd overseen them going from a coveted award to a closing down in a little over three months.  Still their demise delighted all of our customers.   His cuisine is somewhat dull and predictable, but, as he will willingly tell you, if you haven't got the ability, there is no point trying to compete with the Michelin started gastronomic geniuses.  Or McDonald’s.

Drinks - our recently appointed sommelier has taken only a few weeks to ensure that the promised champagne of February has turned flat.  He has started an overhaul of our cellar, introducing some cheap plonk from down-at-heel Chateau, and a range of home produced wines that need more time in the barrel maturing - or tipping away - and  a Belgium beer that flatters to deceive.  What we do promise, is that whatever you order, it will leave a bitter aftertaste.

[Stu]

Well at least this place gets funnier the shitter Villa get.

[Salsa Party Animal]

It would be interesting to see what would happens if Man City/United/Liverpool never gone for Barry, Milner, Young, and Downing and MON stayed and no moscow fiasco. Think we will be lot closer, but since Man City spend the money and MON left he seem to lose heart. 

[ROBBO]

Brian Green speaketh the truth.

Without blowing smoke up his catflaps, this man has been a Villa supporter since Adam was a lad, if he says it's shit (and boy has he seen some shit down there in his time) Then it MUST be shit.

If posters are embarrassed at recent events i can assure them there is nothing more embarrassing than watching Villa take on the might of the third division, they could well find out for themselves if this owner hangs around for a couple of years.

[mike]

Brian Green speaketh the truth.

Without blowing smoke up his catflaps, this man has been a Villa supporter since Adam was a lad, if he says it's shit (and boy has he seen some shit down there in his time) Then it MUST be shit.

If posters are embarrassed at recent events i can assure them there is nothing more embarrassing than watching Villa take on the might of the third division, they could well find out for themselves if this owner hangs around for a couple of years.

If you've just come to the latest page, Brian's article last page is worth going back to.

[Des Little]

How did it all come to this? What an extremely sad state of affairs...our club is in free fall and no one in charge appears to give a tinker's cuss. Unbelievable.