Egon Ronay, the food critic credited with transforming eating habits with his ground-breaking restaurant guides, has died aged 94.
The Hungarian-born writer published his first guide in 1957, a decade after arriving in Britain without a penny to his name and, amid despair about the state of catering in the UK, began a revolution in British food.
He had been ill for a number of weeks and died early on Saturday at his home in Berkshire, southeast England, with his wife Barbara and two daughters by his side, close friend and broadcaster Nick Ross said.
