Critic's Notebook

How Restaurant Criticism is Done

This week’s New Yorker profiles Pete Wells.

Critic's Notebook

Which 2 Seattle Restaurants Showed Up on This National List?

Plus: Throwing a little gas on the age-old Portland vs. Seattle rivalry.

Critic's Notebook

And other myths about how we roll here in the restaurant critic department.

Critic's Notebook

Restaurant critics are revealing their identities left and right. Why I’m not.

Critic's Notebook

The new issue of 'Vanity Fair' chews up and spits out the world’s premier guide to haute cuisine—which has made noises about coming to Seattle.

Critic's Notebook

Weirdly, yes. I dined at three of them last week.

Trends

A few Seattle restaurateurs weigh in.

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A chat with Seattle’s reigning maestros of the morning meal, Jeremy Hardy and Peter Levy, co-impresarios of Chow Foods.