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"Blogger. Restaurant obsessive. Indoor kid."
20 New York, NY United States
member since:
july 21, 2005
current location:
schiller’s liquor bar
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About Eater
The internet looked really different in 2005 — a little more pixelated, a lot more spinning glitter gifs. And around here, to be “very online” meant taking your real-life obsessions and distilling them back out into the world with a healthy dose of snark. To blog was to be at once completely, unflinchingly serious, and also eager to platform the weird and frankly stupid; it was to find your community that shared a language of obsessions — then feed on one other to obsess about that thing even more.
Eater's Blurb's
Feb 1, 2013
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Clearly putting an expensive j-school education to work this week, Eater’s gearing up for this year’s Hottest Chef contest across Eater sites, which means the photos are ROLLING IN. This once illustrious honor now really translates to “which PR Team Is Sophisticated and Motivated Enough to Hack Eater’s Rudimentary Polling System,” just excellent proof that even the stupidest (sexist?) press is good press. Let’s go to the photos: Looks like someone actually sent in a woman this year, obviously an important step forward in the direction of Representation. Here’s a white dude with tattoos. Another white dude with tattoos… x3 Buttoned-up white dude in a tie. A chef’s girlfriend has sent in a shirtless photo of this guy who cooks at a gastropub: Someone knows how to play to a crowd, and this is absolutely going to crush it in his social media campaign. Thanks to this man (and his enthusiastic partner) for their service and all of these upcoming clicks. My PV quota really needed them.
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http://www.eater.com/cringiest-sins-and-tragedies
Eater's Interests
Strengths:
Eavesdropping on not just the adjacent two-top, but also at the host stand, the wait station, and the chef’s counter. Spotting new plywood from a block away; reblogging a long-ass article in 7 minutes flat; raising eyebrows (ours and others’); doling out nicknames; getting tipsters to tell us things they probably shouldn’t (don’t stop tho, we <3 u)
Weaknesses:
Chef feuds; Balthazar; 12-post-a-day blog quotas
What I Wore Today:
Jeans, black T-shirt, Converse, my ravioli necklace, a scowl
Pepsi or Coke:
Martini
Perfect Pizza Slice:
Scarr’s
Most Missed Memory:
A world before “blogger” became a bad word
Chocolate or Vanilla:
Either as long as it’s not Froyo
Morning Routine:
Cold brew while scanning news sources, liquor license applications, and building permits
Nightly Ritual:
Saying yes to after-dinner drinks and reading though hate email
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It’s important for media companies to have alternate revenue streams so…I guess we’re now in the dating business?
Dec 10, 2010
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Anonymity is a construct. Shitposty, yes, but spiritually, To Catch a Critic is really to tip the scales of the power that restaurant critics can hold on restaurants: what’s the harm in giving restaurant workers and owners a few hints here and there about the diners that can have an immeasurable impact on their businesses? We’ve maybe rightfully gotten some flack for our propensity for “outing” critics here at Eater. But this time,it wasn’t us! The biggest restaurant news of the moment is in LA, where Red Ellis’s Tumblr is now the home of a vindictively posted photo of Los Angeles Times critic S. Irene Virbila, where they also bragged about kicking her out of the restaurant. Should we feel some responsibility for the fact that we may have accidentally empowered restaurant owners to dox critics slash limit the access of credentialed journalists to the spaces they need to cover in order to do their jobs????? Do we feel… slightly annoyed we didn’t get this scoop? Eh… maybe we’ll self-reflect on both of those another day.
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Anonymous Critics
Aug 2, 2009
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The reality of covering a huge-ass city’s entire restaurant scene is that… not everything is good or worth covering. But some of the not-good things are delicious in a different sort of way. We’re about two weeks out from launching the second annual Shitshow Week, Eater’s tribute to off-the-rails restaurants, clubstaurants, and related monstrosities. The real question is, how will we narrow the field to only focus on a handful of restaurants this year? Do we roast the waitresses in backless body socks at LevantEast? Or the pink, kurvey Kurve, where the interior is stuffed with oversized kids’ furniture? The restaurant with the fucking birdcage? Kitsch vs. shitshow is in the eye of the beholder. (Us, I guess.)
Foodie4ever
MISSYFRED
~ *hot tip* ~ there’s new plywood up at Prince and Mercer
just ordered fancy cocktails at 5
iconic D.C. bars to see what would happen...for CONTENT
*erin
◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜thanks for the add!◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜
your blog is making me wish i lived in nyc(๑ᵔ⤙ᵔ๑)
<3 amanda <3
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KetoBr0
Jul 20 2005 2:30P
hey can you help me get a table at the new Nobu???????
In many ways, being online in 2005 was extremely earnest. It was also, looking back with 20 years of experience under our belts, a little cringe. For the average internet user, that means flinching a bit when reminiscing about the politics of your MySpace Top 8, or the cumulative time you put into crafting the ~ perfect ~ AIM away message. For Eater bloggers of a certain age, it meant the stunts, polls, and recurring characters who might not have aged the best over time. But in the moment? Pure internet gold, we swear.
Writers and editors: Erin DeJesus and Missy Frederick
Creative Director: Nat Belkov
Designer: James Marshall
Copy edited by Leilah Bernstein
With special thanks to every Eater staffer, past and present, who contributed internet jokes and memes
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