Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Restaurants Food news: pizza, pizza, Eli, and Joia's Enigma
Posted by Besha Rodell @BeshaRodell on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:36 PM
Village Voice's food blog, Fork in the Road, interviews Eli Kirshtein.
Ed Levine and Adam Kuban name Varasano's one of the 8 best pizzerias in America, in an article for Every Day with Rachael Ray.
Speaking of pizza, the New York Times' Sam Sifton has anointed the best pizza in New York City. I do wonder about the star rating - 1 star for the best pizza in the best pizza city (supposedly) in the country? I know stars in the Times are like a million bucks - even one is pretty sweet - but for the BEST pizza in the city? Is pizza that lowly that even the best doesn't deserve two stars? Most days I'd rather have the best pizza than the best French food. After looking around the web today I saw that Eater had the same question. (Did I mention recently that as a restaurant critic and a reader of restaurant reviews I HATE star ratings?)
Foodie Buddha is reporting that Joia has changed its name to Enigma, and that the rest of the story is, well, an enigma.
(Photo by James Camp)
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A * NYT review for pizza means you are one of the best pizzerias in the world. A *** NYT review for an upscale restaurant means you are one of the best restaurants in New York.
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My wife is from Manhattan and claims New York pizza is the absolute best. But in 10 years, every pizza place she has hauled me to up there (including the First Original Famous Original Ray's) was totally nasty. I've never had a slice there that came even half way up to Grant Central's. So I can believe it.
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