Cuisine hasn't so much to do with chefs, more what the crowd cook, Chefs use influences from over the world, but the true national cuisine is what you'll find in the kitchen of john doe.
I noticed in england that cooking isn't a big deal, just go out, heat pre prepared dishes etc. While in other countries cooking is a major part of their life. In England, what I heard there, not sure if it's really so... to the point is that someone who can cook is awed, for example over here ppl look down on you if you can't cook. If you can cook really well then ppl will know u for it. My English cousins who have a Belgian dad can cook, unlike any of there friends... Explaining my conclusions.
If you go to a restaurant you don't go to eat the same things you eat at home, you'll try other things, mostly foreign or inspired by foreign dishes. Out eating seemed to me more popular in England than here, maybe because no-one can cook over there? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" /> I rarely go to restaurants, special occasions I do, In england we went to restaurants, (indian, thai, french...) without any other reason than, not cooking yourself.
If my conclusions from what I've been told by my cousins and other english, and my trip, it's not a bad cuisine in England, but lack of. (except for baked beans and bangers)
