After Dinner Speakers: Egon Ronay, Neil Armstrong, Harry Redknapp

Egon Ronay's guides have influenced the British restaurant-going public for decades. Egon is the third generation of his family to enter the restaurant business. In 1910, his grandfather built a 120 room hotel in Pöstyén, northern Hungary, and, between the wars, his father owned and ran five of the best restaurants in Budapest. Despite reading law at university, Egon always knew that he wanted to follow them into the business. Standards, their maintenance and their raising, have been his lifetime's work, firstly as a restaurateur after emigrating to England after the war, and then as the founder of the eponymous guides, which he ran from 1957 until the early 1980s, when he sold out to the AA. An immaculate character in every respect, Egon Ronay is the world famous expert on food excellence.