Sir – I write with reference to your correspondent’s restaurant review (February 24). Such a stickler for standards and good grammar as Mr Gray must surely regret the omission of a comma from his parenthetical remark: “Regular readers (including one jocular soul who often questions my appetite for fish — diet old boy) will . . . etc”, which turned it from a gentle admonition to the cheery gent in question into a strict injunction to him to lose weight!

Michael Moorey, West Hendred