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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Frank Bruni is enthusiastic about Double Crown 's colonial conceit, almost in spite of himself. "As kooky and borderline scary as all of this sounds, Double Crown makes it work, and work well, for several reasons," he asserts. [ NYT ] Related: A Photo Tour of Double Crown's Menu Alan Richman visits Center Cut in Lincoln Center and is rightfully wary of any steakhouse that serves better...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
OH. Portfolio columnist Zubin Jelveh finds it curious that, while East Harlem restaurants have the highest ratings on Menupages, Frank Bruni has, per a Lexis-Nexis search, never reviewed one of them (meanwhile, the East Village popped up in Bruni’s articles 35 times). Our curmudgeonly commenter Sneakeater offers a reality check: “Not ONE of the restaurants you cite in Harlem or...
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Jossip (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Last week we mentioned how excited we were for the weirdness that was David Chang's newest Momofuku: The Milk Bar/Bakery Shop . Because whoa, who wouldn't want pork belly hoisin buns, or grapefruit ice-cream topped with fizzy cola cherries? But now the enthusiasm for the bizarrely droogish food stuff has died down, thanks in part to Frank Bruni's zero-star review of Kurve , the Second...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Frank Bruni is bemused by Kurve its poor service, its surprise menu substitutions, and its uneven menu. "How do restaurateurs pour this much money and this much vanity into a project and bungle it to the extent that the Kurve brigade does?" he wonders, before answering with zero stars. [ NYT ] Secession 's "sprawling menu is almost defiantly unfocused," writes Steve Cuozzo. But he...
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Odd Numbers (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Over the past two years, Frank Bruni , the New York Times' restaurant critic has mentioned the East Village in articles over 35 times, according to a Lexis-Nexis search, while at the other end of the spectrum, neighborhoods like Harlem (7 mentions), Chinatown (4), Washington Heights (1), and East Harlem (0) were written about much less frequently. I got interested in finding out this...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... over well with the Times of New York: “Friedman is mildly obsessed with getting a good review from Frank Bruni, the paper’s feared critic, who has ‘damned’ the Pig with only one star. ‘And we’ve got that many Michelin stars,’ says Friedman, aggrievedly. ‘Friends tell me food critics take seafood very seriously, so April will be taken seriously as a restaurant chef if she can nail...
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Eschaton (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Frank Bruni, who covered Gore in 2000, later became a restaurant critic. And their '08 Obama campaign reporter is becoming a theater critic. I think people who are good (if they are good) at this type of thing have genuine talent, but I just don't think editors should see campaign journalism as theater/food criticism. Good critics of this type can be good at explaining certain types of...
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Eater SF (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Frank Bruni, responding to Bret Thorn's anti-Top Chef rant yesterday: "I think Bret’s being just a tad too grumpy...some of it is undeniably instructive... If “Top Chef” is bad for the restaurant world, it’s not because of the effect the...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Kalina, 9/21/07 Tomorrow, Frank Bruni reviews Bobo, the West Village show dog that has cycled through three chefs in a year. Today, the Eater oddsmakers have set the action as follows:Zero Stars: 4-1 One Star: 3-1 √√ Two Stars:...
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kottke (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
The NY Times restaurant critic, Frank Bruni, has been answering reader questions all week ...it's worth a read if you care at all about food and dining out. ( link )
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
Frank Bruni, the senior restaurant critic at the most influential paper in America, has submitted to a loooong Q&A from Times readers . Some fun revelations: His biggest tab was probably at Per Se, somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,300 for a party of four . He says there was "a Jeopardy answer/question thingie that said something like, 'Frank Bruni spends $325,000 annually...
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pf.org (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
Bruni takes questions from readers. Interesting stuff....
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Daily Blender (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
Dismantling the allegations earlier this month that his tenure as the NY Times food critic had fallen under equivocal terms, Frank Bruni opened his laptop to his readers this week, answering their submitted questions categorized into headings like “Who Eats This Stuff?”, “Reservations About Reservations”, and “How Anonymous Are You'”. On how the critic chooses restaurants for review:...
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The Food Section (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
"A reservation is neither an absolute right nor a generous offering. It’s somewhere in between."
