restaurant reviews
We Got Dinner With The VIP List. Cry About It.
Two 23-year-olds have blown up on TikTok with their reviews of New York City’s cloutiest restaurants and attracted serious hate along the way.
This Chef Is Trolling TripAdvisor with Crazy Reviews of His Own Restaurant
"I wanted to show how bullshit it is," says Gary Usher, the Chester chef whose fake write-up has been praised by food critics including Jay Rayner for exposing TripAdvisor's questionable review screening process.
Watch a Young Barack Obama Review a Chicago Restaurant on TV
You wouldn’t expect to see the ruler of the free world on a local PBS food show discussing catfish and fried tomatoes, but now you can.
Food Bloggers Are the Devil’s Spawn
"They are extremely self-entitled and feel as though they deserve extra treatment simply because they write about food. Any jerk with a laptop can do that."
Restaurant Critics Are Terrible Dinner Dates
We ask one of Canada's most revered restaurant critics what he does on his day off, and whether eating out as a profession has ruined his social life.
For Yelp Reviewers, Bad Restaurant Service Is Like 9/11
Was your most recent brunch experience like living through an RPG attack? Apparently you're not alone. A Stanford professor has found that Yelp reviewers tend use the language of trauma when they describe a particularly bad meal.
A Reddit Thread Claims a Hookah Lounge in Los Angeles Banned Jews
Users on Reddit and Yelp claimed that a hookah lounge in the middle of an LA neighborhood filled with Persian Jews was a den of bigotry. The internet lies.
Being An Anonymous Restaurant Critic Is Like Being in the CIA
The Guardian's Marina O'Loughlin is one of the last of a dying breed: anonymous restaurant critics. We spoke to her about the challenges of protecting your identity when you've had a few, avoiding industry events, and, um, sticking herbs up her...