Alistair Scott

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Don't know if this has been covered but possibly of interest to fans of his reviews as he came up in a discussion recently.

From Evening Standard 2 nights ago (MODS please feel free to cut for copyright etc)

Scott tackles his final mountain
NOTTING Hill and the Alps will not be the same. Alistair Scott, former skiing editor of the Sunday Times and Harpers & Queen, who is said to have reviewed more than a thousand alpine restaurants, died on Saturday of kidney failure. He was a good skier but preferred après ski, particularly at Dicks Tea Bar in Val d’Isère.

"He bestrode the worlds of skiing and London media, and was exceptionally fond of good food and wine," says Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Conde Nast, who did work experience with him on H&Q in 1976.

"He recently gave a 50th birthday party for himself for 200 of Notting Hill’s finest, taking over the whole of the Le Cafe Anglais. It is very sad."

Scott was known as a glorious drinker and foodie over 30 years who wrote more enthusiastically about restaurants than about black runs, but there were always fears he might come a cropper on his way downhill after a good lunch.

A great friend of Carol Thatcher, a fixture at 192 and a huge supporter of Rowley Leigh at Kensington Place and latterly at the Le Cafe Anglais, he was often seen with friends, sometimes alone at the bar.

"Alistair was a great expert on the old night train to Edinburgh," says a friend. "He knew all the restaurant staff by

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Wasn't a big fan he seemd more concerned with the social standing of the resorts than the skiing.

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

I guess that is to be expected after a lifetime of professional eating and drinking..

Help!!

Alistair Scott

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