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Cuozzo Issues Gag Order to Restaurateurs Who Don’t Dig Their Reviews
In what will be a recurring online column on the Post’s site, Steve Cuozzo tries to shut up restaurateurs, such as Alain Ducasse and Alain Allegretti, who’ve been sniping back at critics: “No more bellyaching. No lip about how critics don't ‘get’ what you're doing. You knew what you were in for when you decided to open a restaurant. Deal with it.” Here’s Cuozzo on Adam Platt’s recent run-ins.
Alain Allegretti, chef/owner of Provencal-themed Allegretti, recently took a swipe at New York Magazine's Adam Platt on Gothamist.com, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten grumped on his own blog about Platt's writeup of Matsugen. Platt wrote harshly of both new restaurants, which were mostly praised everywhere else. But since, as Allegretti said, "19 other reviews" loved his place, why should he flip out over one that didn't?
And did the great Vongerichten really stoop to claiming Platt "misunderstood" Matsugen? I like Matsugen a lot. Platt didn't. But his take on it was come by as honestly as my own contrarian take on Dovetail. Yet I don't recall Dovetail's chef, John Fraser, bitching that I didn't get it....
Shut Up [NYP]
http://nymag.com/daily/food/2008/11/cuozzo...der_to_res.html
In what will be a recurring online column on the Post’s site, Steve Cuozzo tries to shut up restaurateurs, such as Alain Ducasse and Alain Allegretti, who’ve been sniping back at critics: “No more bellyaching. No lip about how critics don't ‘get’ what you're doing. You knew what you were in for when you decided to open a restaurant. Deal with it.” Here’s Cuozzo on Adam Platt’s recent run-ins.
Alain Allegretti, chef/owner of Provencal-themed Allegretti, recently took a swipe at New York Magazine's Adam Platt on Gothamist.com, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten grumped on his own blog about Platt's writeup of Matsugen. Platt wrote harshly of both new restaurants, which were mostly praised everywhere else. But since, as Allegretti said, "19 other reviews" loved his place, why should he flip out over one that didn't?
And did the great Vongerichten really stoop to claiming Platt "misunderstood" Matsugen? I like Matsugen a lot. Platt didn't. But his take on it was come by as honestly as my own contrarian take on Dovetail. Yet I don't recall Dovetail's chef, John Fraser, bitching that I didn't get it....
Shut Up [NYP]
http://nymag.com/daily/food/2008/11/cuozzo...der_to_res.html
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"In what will be a recurring online column on the Post’s site... Maybe Cuozzo will find a new appreciation for engagement and interaction now that he has entered the online sphere."
"No more bellyaching. No lip about how critics don't ‘get’ what you're doing. You knew what you were in for when you decided to open a restaurant. Deal with it."
Aha haa.
What. Ever. (Yah, so-called "objective" reviews are EXACTLY why chefs and restaurateurs go into business in the first place.)
Sorry NY Post, but the Farming of Contrived Controversy for Pageviews is soooooo WorldWideWeb2006.
Nice try, though.
[Not really.]
BY ABBE_DIAZ on 11/24/2008 at 11:33am
"No more bellyaching. No lip about how critics don't ‘get’ what you're doing. You knew what you were in for when you decided to open a restaurant. Deal with it."
Aha haa.
What. Ever. (Yah, so-called "objective" reviews are EXACTLY why chefs and restaurateurs go into business in the first place.)
Sorry NY Post, but the Farming of Contrived Controversy for Pageviews is soooooo WorldWideWeb2006.
Nice try, though.
[Not really.]
BY ABBE_DIAZ on 11/24/2008 at 11:33am
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Oh, and another thing--
"And did the great Vongerichten really stoop to claiming Platt 'misunderstood' Matsugen? I like Matsugen a lot. Platt didn't.... I don't recall Dovetail's chef, John Fraser, bitching that I didn't get it."
Here's another example for you, Mr Cuozzo.
Remember your review of Vongerichten's 66? I do, because I was there. I was even in the (terrible) photograph, I recall.
Well, your review of 66 was pretty awful. But you know what we did? We laughed about it. We thought it was amusing.
Not long afterward, AA Gill's searing "Vanity Fair" review was published. The entire organization nearly popped a collective blood vessel.
Hmm, WHY WOULD THAT BE THE CASE?
Go ahead and think about it. I'll wait.
BY ABBE_DIAZ on 11/24/2008 at 11:52am
"And did the great Vongerichten really stoop to claiming Platt 'misunderstood' Matsugen? I like Matsugen a lot. Platt didn't.... I don't recall Dovetail's chef, John Fraser, bitching that I didn't get it."
Here's another example for you, Mr Cuozzo.
Remember your review of Vongerichten's 66? I do, because I was there. I was even in the (terrible) photograph, I recall.
Well, your review of 66 was pretty awful. But you know what we did? We laughed about it. We thought it was amusing.
Not long afterward, AA Gill's searing "Vanity Fair" review was published. The entire organization nearly popped a collective blood vessel.
Hmm, WHY WOULD THAT BE THE CASE?
Go ahead and think about it. I'll wait.
BY ABBE_DIAZ on 11/24/2008 at 11:52am
