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does anyone read any food critics? can they even be taken seriously nowadays? do you think they seethe that some guy on youtube is more recognizable than any of them will ever be?

>> No.16211973

>>16211933
i worked in restaurants for years. the new wave of food critics are all trust fund kids who got liberal arts degrees from big name schools and now they think eating in restaurants and leaving yelp reviews are a career. i wish the industry would stop pampering these fucking retards

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16211982

only if I know that they know how to cook. so no, not really.

>> No.16212113

>>16211973
do you by chance remember any of their names?

>> No.16212116

>>16211933
>does anyone read any food critics?
I have followed Miami Herald's Linda Bladholm for decades.
https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/restaurants/article232508147.html
One of Linda Gassenheimer's charms over the years was hunting down recipes from historic local restaurants when readers asked, from the Joe's crab dip, to the chocolate mousse from The Studio or some salad dressing from The Colombia. She must have a million cookbooks and articles on hand and her research of keys cuisine is great.

I have never hunted down a review on New Times that disappointed my sensibilities. And, their annual best of editions have great categories, and are reader voted as well as reviewer ranked.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/guy-fieris-flavortown-kitchen-descends-on-south-florida-11975750

Burgerbeast has a great blog and I've discovered some great reviews from him.

The whole time I lived in DC, I trusted the Washingtonian past issues/website to find reviews by neighborhood whenever I was across town.

Pete Wells at NYTgets top points from me, and I usually sift through old articles when visiting NYC

>> No.16212163

>>16212113
some asian girl in austin, cho or coco or some shit? she came in a lot

>> No.16212170

>>16211933
I knew a guy that used to review single slice pizza joints in one of the local college/music rags. They were pretty hilarious. Food criticism as anything other than entertainment is preposterous. If you want to try a restaurant just do it. Some dingus with an axe to grind isn’t going to give you any more insight than your own mouth.

>> No.16212205

>>16212170
I don't know I personally would like to know how some recipes are prepared and why different kinds of flavors work well together.

>> No.16212347

>>16211933
is he the most famous britbong at this point?

>> No.16212400

>>16212205
I admire your curiosity. Food criticism isn’t going to help. Eat things. Develop your own palette. Discuss the food with the people that create it and serve it. When it comes to what is effectively a one-off product criticism means exactly jack shit.

>> No.16212581

>>16212400
would food reviews be more worthwhile if they had every dish over a week?

>> No.16213112

Everyone has their own tastes/ opinions on things who needs some smug idiot telling you what their experience is to go to a restaurant or whatever.

>> No.16213174

>>16213112
So you don't look at yelp before you go to a place?

>> No.16213217

>>16213174
Nope, never used Yelp

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>>16211933
the late Jonathan Gold was worth reading if you were in the LA area