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Grimes gives up his poison pen


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Apparently Bill Grimes has stepped down from his restaurant critic position as the Times.

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http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=55025

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Not to mention that a lot of the top places will probably be up for re-review after they name a successor.

"If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony."

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Yeah, imagine my surprise when I got home from an appointment this morning and there wasn't a single voicemail message from the Times asking me to fill the position. :laugh:

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How do we start a write-in campaign? Who do we contact?

"If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony."

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"Not to mention that a lot of the top places will probably be up for re-review after they name a successor."

Why? If the Times wasn't embarrassed keeping 1998 Reichl four star sacred cow reviews up throughout the Grimes tenure, what's a few more years for the likes of Le Bernardin and Jean-Georges?

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Hesser has no interest in being a restaurant critic. At the 92nd St Y panel on monday night she talked about how much she hated her brief turn doing the job - particularly all the scheduling and getting friends to agree to eat according to her reviewing needs.

"Some people see a sheet of seaweed and want to be wrapped in it. I want to see it around a piece of fish."-- William Grimes

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Hesser has no interest in being a restaurant critic. At the 92nd St Y panel on monday night she talked about how much she hated her brief turn doing the job - particularly all the scheduling and getting friends to agree to eat according to her reviewing needs.

yea, it's understandable.

much better to be an "interesting food + restaurant" writer than the restaurant reviewer.

too many particulars associated with reviewing.

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Hesser has no interest in being a restaurant critic. At the 92nd St Y panel on monday night she talked about how much she hated her brief turn doing the job - particularly all the scheduling and getting friends to agree to eat according to her reviewing needs.

I think that she is also way too recognized to be a reviewer at this point in her career.

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"Not to mention that a lot of the top places will probably be up for re-review after they name a successor."

Why? If the Times wasn't embarrassed keeping 1998 Reichl four star sacred cow reviews up throughout the Grimes tenure, what's a few more years for the likes of Le Bernardin and Jean-Georges?

Depends on the place. Certainly the new reviewer will want to put their own mark on the 4 stars. It's starting to look pretty crowded at the top and it would seem that if the new reviewer adds one they will need to take one away. I didn't mean to imply they would re-review all the top places.

If Per Se comes in as a 4 star, any bets on who might be demoted or will they keep the current crop?

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And I think Asimov would have gotten the job last time if it were to happen.

This assumes, of course, that Asimov even wants the job. He has a pretty good gig going with "$25 and under."

And does it well, I think. (Of course this is the opinion of someone who hasn't been to a NYC restaurant since before Asimov was born.)

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STEINGARTEN!

We know at least one thing -- he likes to eat. And he's a real New Yorker.

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I'd say either Eric Asimov or Amanda Hesser.

Or it could be someone who's not on the radar.

Soba

The inside track has Eric Asimov aboard. A close friend of his tells me he has the job if he wants it, and he does.

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