Chodorow told The New York Sun, when asked if he was pleased with the publicity his advertisement received. “Happy is a relative concept, but I would do it again,” Mr. “Restaurateurs are always saying critics should have certification, but what credentials do we demand of someone who opens a restaurant?” “I assure you that if a 3-year-old gave Chodorow three ‘goo goos,’ he’d think that baby had a really discerning palate,” a former food critic for the Times, Mimi Sheraton, said. They come up with their own ideas, which can be totally inaccurate.”įood critics generally fell on Mr.
“If they want to know if it was basil or cilantro, they won’t even ask us. “My experience has been that food critics don’t even want to talk to us anymore,” he said. Chodorow’s frustration with the state of food criticism. Chodorow’s war with his critics.Īnother New York restaurateur, Drew Nieporent, whose Myriad Restaurant Group owns restaurants including Nobu and Tribeca Grill, defended Mr. From the daily tabloids to the weekly glossies, press outlets in New York City were eager to document Mr.
The popular food blog dedicated fulltime coverage to “Chodogate,” and its traffic increased by about 35%, according to its editor, Benjamin Leventhal. The 1,138-word advertisement had stirred up a firestorm back in New York. He painted himself as a victim of the press without recourse to defend himself and announced he would launch a blog, where he plans to respond to “an increasingly negative, downright nasty climate that has surfaced in the world of restaurant journalism.” The restaurateur had spent close to $40,000 for a full-page advertisement in the Dining In, Dining Out section of the New York Times, where he published an open letter to the editor rebutting what he called a biased zero-star review of his pricey Midtown steakhouse, Kobe Club. When Jeffrey Chodorow’s plane landed on the Las Vegas tarmac last Wednesday afternoon, 52 text messages lit up his cell phone, and his frantic publicist hustled him to a television studio for damage control with a live interview on CNBC.
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