The 1st August 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of Elitistreview’s creation. I was not even in full time education for as long as I have been writing this website and I ended up getting four degrees from Oxford! There are very nearly 800,000 words on this site, all ripped from my very being and thrown at Word before putting them online. It is quite an achievement!
To celebrate this epic achievement, The Editor and myself met up with seven friends in the private dining room of the restaurant 10 Greek Street for a meal and some fine wines back in May – before all my friends’ children were let loose from school for their summer holidays. We had a lot of fun! I would like to thank all my friends for attending and making serious efforts to provide appropriate wines.
10 Greek Street charge a very reasonable amount for corkage, so I will be reporting on the wines brought by us all. There were some 2005 wines – the year I created Elitistreview. The dry whites were 2015s, half the age of my site.
The private dining room at 10 Greek Street holds ten people comfortably and they offer either a fixed meal where the whole table eat the same food, or one can order a la carte. We chose the latter.
The food was extremely good! The dishes were inventive with high-quality ingredients cooked with skill and style. It was also very reasonably priced for a restaurant right in the middle of Soho. I would highly recommend a visit and The Editor and I will certainly be returning. It is a great place to dine. Thank you for the recommendation, and for booking, Ricard.
I started the event saying a few words about the site, such as how hugely prolix I have been (see above), before using the worst taste joke ever to appear on Elitistreview as a bridge to move onto the topic of the future of Elitistreview.
Over the next eight days I will publish a note every day, plus some Elitistreview-style context, on the wines we drank. After I have posted notes on all the wines, I will publish a short piece on the future of Elitistreview.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who have kept Elitistreview going over the years. Keith deserves a special mention as he has not just paid the hosting fees countless times, but he has also paid for food for Team Elitistreview when we have had no other means of procuring any. My wonderful friend Jonathan has been similarly generous. Thank you both in particular and everyone else who has chipped in.
Lots of other people have contributed to Elitistreview’s existence, some financially, some by sending wine for us to taste, and a few by taking us out for meals. Thank you all.
Of course, everyone who contributed to the crowdfund for my back operation are all greatly appreciated. I would be in too much pain to write this without your help.
Thank you all to our many friends who have hosted us for meals and allowed us to drink and me be rude about (not all that often, in truth) their wines.
It goes without saying I am grateful to everyone who has come to this site and read my output. I hope it has entertained.
See you tomorrow for the first wine!
Many congratulations Davy, Quite an achievement to have produced such interesting content over 20 years, especially with everything that you have had to put up with during the years .
Best wishes for another 20 !!
Thank you, Keith, we couldn’t have done it without your fantastic generosity!