{"id":893546,"date":"2026-06-26T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/893546\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:30:39","slug":"new-yorks-restaurant-critic-answers-reader-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/893546\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New York\u2019\u2019s Restaurant Critic Answers Reader Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a54f080f4048b0415c4a2517f48341810d-ask-a-critic-final.rhorizontal.w700.png\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Illustration: Joe McKendry\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.grubstreet.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmqpj3u9k00123b7cuvyqa5mx@published\" data-word-count=\"68\">Matthew Schneier has been New York\u2019s chief restaurant critic for nearly three years and if there\u2019s been one question he\u2019s been asked most often in that time, it\u2019s the obvious one: \u201cWhere should I eat?\u201d In a city where new restaurants open daily, it\u2019s reasonable, but it\u2019s not the only thing worth knowing. So, on June 25 he answered some of those questions, live, and directly from readers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.grubstreet.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmqttjjdl000s3b7ctnmtenba@published\" data-word-count=\"8\">He offered advice on feeding an adventurous teen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.grubstreet.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmqttn5y9001a3b7ce46uu8d5@published\" data-word-count=\"8\">He discussed his path to becoming a critic:<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.grubstreet.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmqttjupe000w3b7ckcsy461v@published\" data-word-count=\"12\">He got to give love to some of his favorite wine restaurants:<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.grubstreet.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmqttoioe001l3b7cs6hvmxpg@published\" data-word-count=\"16\">And he discussed much more. You can read all of the questions, and his answers, below.<\/p>\n<p>          Eat like the experts.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the Grub Street newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>        Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Illustration: Joe McKendry Matthew Schneier has been New York\u2019s chief restaurant critic for nearly three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":893547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,362284,278868,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-893546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-ask-a-critic","tag-hard-regwall","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116815005536393109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}