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a movie review with you to review with all respect
with all due respect to those critics you have something
live going on to review with the restaurant review a restaurant service
static thing that you have to create
narrative I love a restaurant in the moment and create some action and
interest and it's really a hard hard thing to do
and said let me ask you how hard it is you've done different forms a
writing where does this fit in well I think II wanna
quibble a little bit with the description love what the critics role
on in film movies books restaurant
I will even restaurants that there is a narrative on that
one of the great joys and being pressure critic for The Times which allows you to
go back
the restaurant go back to the restaurant back to the restroom is that the
narrative emerges over time you can see it im
the story the food itself from the story the service in the story
the design and how those three things
I interplay and what role the restaurant is playing the city
at the moment or in the past on
the great contrast of course between what it is that we didn't want does
and what the other critics do is that none of those other critics do anything
to their pods
work I'm we actually are doing something
I'm quite harmful to our bonds can also sending
I think that are I also agree I don't think it's hard to do but I think that
they
big distinction between what we do and let the critics do
is when Mignola reviews a wrap I'm
film she knows that the audience is gonna see the same film she saw
right we now no one can ever replicate
your experience and we have no way of knowing
you know what's gonna happen to you when you go to this restaurant
mean they can go on a great night on a terrible night home
so I mean being fair movie is much harder
as a restaurant credit I think there is any other kind
isn't it easy Ruth or more fun tour
to write accommodative errors review well
I mean I think my favorite review that I ever wrote was one
which started with we waited and waited and waited
and finally after 45 minutes the
houses came up in town so sorry a waitress just quit
I when from there to
their om korean Hot Pocket
all over me I'm trying to mop that out
poring over the spilling the entire
water picture onto the table I
completely messing everything up and the final indignity was when we left they
couldn't find my coat
I yes can you say yes this is on a rainy I thought all this is Sophia
and I wrote it in in I wrote everything that happened
and they ended up taking out a full-page
a back up the dissection we printing
the entire review and just saying at the top
please come back well all
where it was like he was just givin all
yes this is so great this is just wonderful copy
do they still existed people come back now did you ever go back
at No we also have a mystery guest
our current dining credit p12 and I thought maybe we could put like a chair
here with the big question mark is from
good talk about the life you've chosen I V I want on-line
today and you is a picture view right there anyone here could do that
do you look different from that picture online
I can make myself look different from that picture online I think
the I i think i mean you know I don't know I don't know how much I'm going
through the motions
and a how much love it
is just whether the restaurants are paying attention but but sometimes I
just happen to the radar
I think do you often look like that picture
that I can find online if I see you in a restaurant probably
not so much but probably not so different
he's running a little KGB as not worried about that
but I understand that now this have you ever know I S is the others too
did you ever send food back no
I didn't like to the less attention
II you know less disturbance I created
happier I was in restaurants I was attempting to pass
completely unnoticed so there is any anything like sending back
I'd rather just continue eating discover its
full dimensions and its badness right
about you same with valujet and I i feel the same I never
some stuff back and I because there could be the delicious possibility of
awfulness the end that dish that could
yield great prose but you know differences are
a really good point which is this businesses
occasionally not wanting to be the alpha at the table
there's a whole kinda social science to how parties
in restaurants enter with the person who's going to pay generally
end of the line you first go ahead for the waitress to the tailor the hostess
to the
to the table and I would find myself occasionally
taking the meek position to sit in a
in a not very good see to certainly not order the Wigner send anything back
and in this sense for my great disguises
insofar as it was disguise was to eat with trial attorneys
because they're very big personalities
and they they just come and attention
and that attention goes to them and does not accrue to that
mild-mannered Irish immigrant black shirt with the chain
who did you like eating with any types
I any occupations in particular well celebrities are really good
as they completely deflect the
attention from your email nobody sees you on
when you're with a celebrity I also liked
teenagers because they have voracious appetites
and one of the big problems when you're reviewing: rest timing of it you're
doing two restaurants and a night because you're behind
and one of the problems is just what do you do with all that food
so having people who are big eaters is very good and I also always carried
plastic bags in my purse because you don't want the waiter
10 to compensate know why haven't you eat your food right
and especially when you're going to an awful restaurants
I there was a lot of shoving food into plastic bags
hiding hearth when nobody's looking
pete King can you tell us what year and I think I know the answer but
tell us what your most controversial reviews been
thus far Victor i'd give us your sided
store at II reviewed this
little rest from around the corner from here called
guy's American Kitchen & Bar I a
and that that was just I think blue
I didn't think you'd be controversial but the controversy there was why did
you
do this why did you write about this quiet their word
too many people say oh you got this absolutely wrong this place is not
nearly as
terrible said how many people who read that review
okay and how many thought it was to me
you got a lot of them and hear you say
are there people who saw their min are there anywhere
how you can you see them sure you can see them even the comments on our
website to the
a.m. the %uh people a.m. and believe me I got
I got some male a a you know when you
when people can't even spell the four-letter words are throwing a chance
to
but i wanna ask you oh one more thing
while people are preparing their questions that is it's your last
day in New York or your last meal
arm where would you where with him
well and what would you eat starting with their well
because it's close to my house is is this little bistro
call the triazole near the Midtown Tunnel it's in Long Island City
it's not 24 I'll in a story is so sorry and I know it will be rock solid
dependable
and I know that the duck terrine to start with other will be
as it always is and there'll probably be this nice
seared skate with the you know burn alarmed
and caper sauce that will be really good and it'll be satisfying and I'll
you know way for a while to to
to the earth at least a good me on my cell Ruth
am I paying for it or somebody else think for her
someone else is paying for well then I will probably go to masa
because I don't think I can ever afford to go there again on my own
dime but I am I
think about it a I with love
to go back there again it's like being transported
to it's like going to aspire some me it's
it's more than just food I mean that the sushi comes but you
everything is wonderful the way that pounder feels
the way Ma said gives you
that for the feel just the cops
that kind of tranquility that %um I would leave New York
feeling very them I'm lost and have that
II I mean it's so different I this abiam any meal night
thing II there's really i I'll
I'm tempted to say I would just leave but
if processed and your pang we would start
at Melbourne and I we could start there not for me all I think
on but then mail here Hunan kitchen
I'm in Queens and get their barbecued fish which is not barbecue at all
version we can come back
we could to baby which steakhouse to go to retrial from you
we'd end up with were core and a dirty this case we wanna drive by sparks just
to see it
because the image we have in our minds and gangster
p where you go
well first hurricane I have to thank you because whenever anybody else has this
question they say it's your last meal of your life
and I say don't think they that's a fair thinking a what am i dying of legal if
that makes a difference I might like
release circa is somebody gonna shoot me like yeah
and I never answer from so sense I'm only leaving the city I would go to
one of the places that I always come back to what I've been away from the
city I'd guide
I wanna New York Pizza and I would go to Turner's in Coney Island I went
getting my kayak and slip off into the ocean here
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