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Here’s Pete Wells’s First Review As the Times’ New Full-Time Critic

By , food editor at New York Magazine   who has been covering restaurants and the way we eat since 2006
BBQ Chicken at Wong.
BBQ Chicken at Wong. Photo: Michael Allin/New York Magazine

While our own critic recovers from the Herculean task of ranking the city’s 100-plus best restaurants, Pete Wells drops his first review as the Times’ newest full-time critic. So which spot does he deem worthy of the debut? Wong, Simpson Wong’s “Asian locavore” spot on Cornelia Street. And he likes it, especially the duck-fat ice cream. [NYT, Related]

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