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Field Notes
field notes
Oct. 4, 2021
Who Wants Caviar at a Time Like This?
Fine dining confronts a perilous new threat: irrelevance.
By
Adam Platt
reopening
June 29, 2021
Does Eleven Madison Park’s Vegan-Friendly Menu Live Up to the Hype?
An amateur vegan and a professional food critic debate the merits of chef Daniel Humm’s intricate vegetable cooking.
By
Rachel Sugar
and
Adam Platt
field notes
May 4, 2021
The Great Indoors
A critic reacclimates to the now-unfamiliar terrain of the dining room.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Apr. 7, 2021
What Will NYC Restaurants Look Like After the Pandemic? Miami Offers a Preview.
Our restaurant critic takes in the scene on South Beach.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Dec. 15, 2020
The Best Meals I Ate in 2020
Our critic finds some comforts in a heartbreaking year.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Nov. 19, 2020
Winter Comes for New York’s Streeteries
Our restaurant critic bundles up for the season ahead.
By
Adam Platt
first taste
Nov. 5, 2020
A New Chinese Café Finds Some Fans in the Platt Family
Milu offers a different spin on the traditional carryout model.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Oct. 22, 2020
The Odeon, Four Decades On
“None of us was thinking of this as a career. It was just sort of a fun idea.”
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Oct. 7, 2020
A Restaurant Critic Considers the Soothing Luxury of the Ham Sandwich
There is a necessary and soothing familiarity to ham and cheese on squishy white bread.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Sept. 3, 2020
Our Cranky Restaurant Critic Finally Learns to Love S’mores
All it took was a game-changing technique from an ingenious backyard chef.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Aug. 19, 2020
What I’ve Missed
Our restaurant critic reemerges to a strange new world.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Apr. 6, 2020
A Restaurant Critic’s Viral Bean Hell
Adam Platt joins the legume-hoarding masses.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Mar. 17, 2020
What We Lose When a Favorite Restaurant Disappears Forever
Good-bye to Gotham Bar & Grill’s sense of civility, tradition, and style.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Mar. 13, 2020
What Is a Restaurant Critic’s Job in the Time of Social Distancing?
And why does it feel like a rave review may do more harm than good?
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Feb. 21, 2020
A Restaurant Critic Comes Around on Lines
Some of them, anyway.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Nov. 27, 2019
A Restaurant Critic Crashes the White House Turkey Pardon
This increasingly tired, loony ritual is the perfect window into the madcap, farcical spirit of the Trump White House.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Nov. 12, 2019
A Restaurant Critic Walks Into a Wegmans …
Adam Platt finds high-end cocktails, lots of parking, and an unnervingly chipper staff.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Nov. 5, 2019
Foie Gras May Be Cruel. It’s Definitely Irrelevant.
A restaurant critic on the waning days of a luxury ingredient.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Oct. 31, 2019
In Defense of Wasp Cooking
Adam Platt takes a stand for his ancestral cuisine.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
Aug. 6, 2019
Can a Restaurant Critic Learn to Love a Sad Desk Salad?
Adam Platt gets in line to find out.
By
Adam Platt
field notes
June 27, 2019
Dinner With the Nomaheads
Our critic joins the mold-eating cult of the world’s leading culinary demigod.
By
Adam Platt