Is there still a best day to eat out?  Ten years ago if you
wanted the best possible restaurant meal it was key to know when
the A-team were in the kitchen and all the ingredients were
fresh. Have things moved on? Anthony Bourdain 'Never order fish
on Monday' - how much of Anthony Bourdain's advice of 10 years
ago still holds true?  Which day of the week is the best to eat
out? In a pub with a group of friends recently, we tried to work
out the answer – specifically because we were trying to decide
whether ordering snails on toast in a half empty gastropub on a
Wednesday would be a good idea or not. (A badly handled serving
of snails is, after all, a thing of tooth-squeaking horror.)
Would the best chefs be working that night? Was it always quiet
on a Wednesday? How fresh would the snails be?  A decade ago I
started working as a very junior restaurant manager, and it was
ages before I was let loose on my own on a busy Saturday night –
instead I got midweek shifts and Sunday evenings to start with,
with the A-