Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Perils of Being a Restaurant Critic

The Baltimore Sun recently brought on board a new restaurant critic after the retirement of their previous restaurant columnist of thirty years. Then the editors asked him to do a 50 Best Restaurants article. Oh, the horror! Into the valley of death rode Richard Gorelick, where he omitted one of the best loved restaurants in the city. Unsaid restaurant, Tio Pepe, thereby received more free positive publicity, due to the ensuing chorus of outrage, than it would have gotten if it had been listed at #1.

The restaurant is one of my daughter Kristen's favorites, as well as mine and her mother's.

Kristen took up her keyboard to avenge the dishonor of her beloved Tio. Still receiving no satisfaction, relentless in the pursuit of justice for Tio Pepe, she cornered the doomed Richard Gorelick, live on the air at WYPR and demanded that he stand and deliver.

You can see her written inquisition as the number 2 response as posted here by Richard Gorelick in his blog.

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