Posts tagged as Sam Sifton
Man Finishes Job
"By point of context, though, an aisle orchestra seat at the Metropolitan Opera for Donizetti’s 'L’Elisir d’Amore' runs $330, also excluding wine." READ MORE
Restaurant Chinese
"The setting is dropped-ceiling bland, with a few plants and paintings for color. This is in keeping with the neighborhood’s restaurant history: 456 resembles nothing so much as a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown." READ MORE
Fusion Joint Gets Savage Beatdown
The last sentence in Sam Sifton's most recent restaurant review is pretty brutal.
The 11 Most Revolting Things Sam Sifton Ate in London
Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton goes to London and what is there to eat at the hottest places in town? DISHES OF HORROR MOSTLY. A textural nightmare. A heart-stopping pile of Englishisms. READ MORE
Italian Food Less Oleaginous Than Italian PM
"THERE are two remarkable things going on at Ciano, the casual, new-style Italian restaurant that Shea Gallante opened a few months ago on East 22nd Street. The first is Mr. Gallante’s food, which is ambitious, beautiful and flavor packed, a kind of Italian home cooking made grand and attractive, rich as Berlusconi, not as oily." READ MORE
The Evolution of Language
A cursory search of the New York Times' archives reveals that today marks the very first use of the word "Broheim" in the paper's 159-year history.
Sam Sifton Is Sambivalent
"The restaurant’s steaks are taken off grass-fed cattle, and butchered to the thickness of a Frisbee. This is a grim combination, leading to giant flaps of crust-free, overly chewy meat the flavor of nickels. Most people cut bits off, then push the rest around the plate as if it were a pile of napkins. At $45 for a rib-eye, this is a nasty business." READ MORE
Mr. Critic Strikes Back Against Those Snobby French Foodies
"We'll get to your needs in a minute. Here's what would be great from my point of view, and which would make up entirely for the time I was in the Marais with my pregnant wife and this jumped-up little terrier in a Basque restaurant sneered at us for arriving without a reservation at his entirely empty restaurant at 6 p.m. He was plenty sophisticated-European. He responded to our request for a table for two with a curt, 'Non,' adding that all the tables-he even swept his arm back to indicate them-were reserved. So do me a favor and take your husband to Peter Luger in Brooklyn and see how he fares with those waiters, speaking English with a French accent. Just in the interest of explaining to him how New York used to be. Hey, now: the food's plenty authentic." READ MORE
DIY NYT Review
We are on record as being fans of New York Times dining critic Sam Sifton-his review of ultra-hip Carroll Gardens abattoir Prime Meats this week was extremely enjoyable-but we've got to admit, this Sifton Mad-Libs construction is also pretty great. It is obviously the product of close reading.
