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Gaga's Parents' Restaurant Is Gross

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:35:11 CST

New York's new restaurant, Joanne, gets a scathing review in the Post by restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo, a fact about which few would probably care ... except that the restaurant in question is owned by Lady Gaga's parents, Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta. In his amusing critique, Cuozzo starts off by noting...

Food Blogger Jailed for Complaining About Noodles

Kevin Spak — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:38:05 CDT

Be careful what you blog about in Taiwan. One woman, identified only as Mrs. Liu, learned that lesson the hard way recently, after she complained on her little-read blog about the Sichuan Flavor Beef Noodle Restaurant in Taichung. The place, she wrote, was full of cockroaches, the owner was a...

Restaurant Photographs, Then Boots Critic

Matt Cantor — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:23:22 CST

A Los Angeles Times restaurant critic has been “unmasked” by a feisty restaurant boss, who snapped her picture while she waited for a table and then sent her packing, the Times reports. The restaurant posted S. Irene Virbila’s picture on its Tumblr blog , where it spread like wildfire to mixed...

Hey, New York Times, Quit Dissing DC's Restaurants

Kevin Spak — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:57:27 CST

The New York Times delivered its latest review of the Washington DC dining scene last week, and it was as withering as ever, raising its nose at the “spread of Everyman Eating” on Capitol Hill, where restaurateurs don’t even try for a Michelin star. It’s typical, writes Tim Carman of...

Taste Test: Breast Milk Cheese

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:57:36 CST

Longtime restaurant critic Gael Greene did not race to Daniel Angerer's Klee Brasserie for a serving of his wife's breast milk cheese , but she nonetheless found herself squeamishly preparing for a taste test. Though the Health Department banned him from serving it after a New York Post article, Angerer gives...

70-Year-Old Lobster Deserves Freedom

John Johnson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:53:09 CDT

Restaurant writer Ryan Sutton has dined on his share of lobsters, but the plight of one venerable crustacean has left him without an appetite. "Larry" is a 70-year-old lobster at New York's Oceana restaurant awaiting its fate as a $275 entree. Sutton admits he's never given much thought to the...

Worst Food Trends of the Decade

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:40:55 CDT

Asked to name the decade's worst dining trends, chefs and other food experts couldn't shut up. There were too many (including "mache, water sommeliers, organ-meat entrees, unisex bathrooms, bacon tattoos on chefs, over-flaunted kitchen burns, chefs tables") for Christopher Borrelli to list them all, but he hits the top 10...

12 Food Trends That Need to Die

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:47:00 CDT

Why must everything, from burgers to pizza to Vietnamese street sandwiches, have a high-end gourmet version? Those three things should die, along with 9 other food trends that bug Esquire: Faux speakeasies: spots with no phone number, sign "Farm to table": idea is fine, but the expression must die Unisex...

Trend Alert: Gourmet Pizza Heats Up

Matt Cantor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:59:17 CDT

In recent years, a new culture has developed around pizza: “It’s scrutinized and fetishized, with a Palin-esque power to polarize,” writes Frank Bruni in the New York Times . That means debates over oven types, varieties of flour, the virtues of buffalo mozzarella. The new “stratosphere of respect” for the pies...