"Why not fix the system by making the model farm the rule, rather than jettisoning the entire notion of eating animals?" What would a restaurant critic say to a vegetarian author? We found out at a sold-out auditorium at the...
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The first Meatball Madness took place last night at the New York Wine and Food Festival, and judging from the attendance and the enthusiasm of the crowd it is fair to say that the event was a runaway success....
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In his last formal review as the New York Times restaurant critic, Frank Bruni assigns a single star to The Redhead—a bar-turned-Southern restaurant in the East Village that Ed reviewed back in August of 2008. In explaining why it...
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Photo from the Times It seems as if the closer we get to the end of Frank Bruni's reign at the Times, the more we hear from him, as if the guy's milking every last moment up on his...
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Only a few more days on those tenterhooks; we should know outgoing Times critic Frank Bruni's replacement by Friday. “I hope to announce something by the end of the week,” executive editor Bill Keller told the Observer. We hope so,...
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Fear me no more. In the final days of the Bruni Era, plenty has been revealed about the outgoing New York Times food critic, most notably in a New York Times Magazine tell-all about his struggles with food and...
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After a five-year stint as the newspaper's critic, Frank Bruni will step down in August. The upcoming publication of his food memoir prompted the move: Recognizing that the book is certain to seriously compromise his ability to be a spy...
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Fried quail and duck confit "choucroute" from West Branch. I'm not trying to steal Eater's Bruni Betting thunder, but I feel compelled to weigh in on the two restaurants Bruni will review tomorrow, West Branch and Bar Bao. Serious...
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The now infamous pork bun at Momofuku Ssäm Bar. Photograph by Robyn Lee I thought Ben Leventhal of Eater was crazy when he predicted the Times' Frank Bruni would bestow three stars on David Chang's Ssäm Bar in his...
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