Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
situation where your sense of self-worth is so bound up in being good at your hobby that you can justify being an arse in other respects, or where you can't deal with changes that threaten your hobby or with the realization that you aren't as good at it as you thought you were...
To the extent that you can be "good at" eating in restaurants...
I mean, it's one thing to have your sense of self-worth bound up in something you actually *do*, be it some kind of art, sport, profession or whatever. But these wankers don't even cook their own food, all they do is eat food that's been cooked by someone else. They are consumers in the most literal sense. Maybe they put a lot of effort into finding out exciting new places to eat, or jealously guard 'personal' favourite restaurants the way a DJ might have a 'secret weapon' record, but they're not doing anything remotely creative.