In 2009, the restaurant was forced to close for six weeks after a vomiting bug, thought to be caused by the norovirus and linked to shellfish, affected 500 customers.
"You think of that as a bug, I think of that as a feature," he said.
"Seems loads of people effected [sic] by hack bug thought it was me who caused it phew !" he wrote as the attack spread.
Bug thinks that's ridiculous.
While gold bugs think the world is hellish, platinum buyers believe in more heavenly outcomes.
Jeremy Niven spends his days at Cambridge University running locusts across ladders and through mazes, trying to figure out how bugs think.
There are references to them in ancient Egyptian literature, and archaeologists have even discovered what seem to be fossilised bed bugs thought to be about 3,500 years old.
We're trying to do the same thing with insects, create a stepping-stone, so that when you get a bug nugget you think of the bug steak, not the whole animal".
Still, the verisimilitude is remarkable, and when, at a recent performance, an enormous insect -- a water bug, I think -- skittered under the front row seats, causing sudden clamor, the actor Nicholas Woodeson, who plays Teddy (and nails the spoiled childishness of a middle-aged scion of privilege), raised an eyebrow and quipped: "Wildlife?
"I do still get the triple-A bug, and it makes me think I can create a new universe that's better than anything else.
