Reviews
Michelin hires Japanese restaurant judges, showers Tokyo with stars, and sells 290,000-plus copies of its restaurant guide, but Japanese food critics, magazines and the governor of Tokyo question the choices and ratings. They say that outsiders don't know them or their cuisines, and that ranking restaurants offends sensibility against bragging and putting others down.
By Martin Fackler
The New York Times 2008-02-24 (entry)
Restaurateurs who make us toe the line before we pay the check don't understand that we're looking for more than a properly cooked steak when we go out to eat. We want to feel as though we matter. Henceforth, this Diner's Bill of Rights.
By Leslie Brenner
Los Angeles Times 2007-10-24 (entry)
Look for strapping comfort food built around potatoes, surf and turf, salsa picante and pisco sours at these two Peruvian spots, one in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood, and the other over the border, in Rockville.
By Tom Sietsema
Washington Post 2007-08-05 (entry)
After Philadelphia Inquirer was sued for defamation for a restaurant critic's commentary, another critic contemplates restaurant reviews of the future, and ways to best guide diners in spending their discretionary dollars.
By Phil Vettel
Chicago Tribune 2007-07-19 (entry)
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When restaurant reviewers follow accepted standards, they eat anonymously at the same place at least twice, they order a wide range of foods, they order good and bad food more than once for consistency's sake and they interview the chef or owner - but they're not cheerleaders for the restaurant industry.
By Bob Richter
San Antonio Express-News 0000-00-00 (entry)
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After restaurant reviewer at the Philadelphia Inquirer was sued for defamation, it's possible that writing a personal opinion about a dining experience could have a very different, and only positive, slant.
By Phil Vettel
Chicago Tribune (entry)
Mushy sides aside, fried chicken from Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits is some of the best soul food in Boston - but does it matter that this tender, juicy, extra crunchy bird with a cayenne kick is from a chain, if it's a cool chain?
By Devra First
Boston Globe (entry)
