When the New York Times and DC food writers engaged in a Food Fight last December, it wasn’t pretty. Some critics, myself included, are still a bit “pessimistic,” as Daniel Maurer of the Grub Street pages of New York Magazine pointed out yesterday. He’s not wrong– this fight has left some critics jaded. When it comes to missing out on good food I just get a little touchy. Does it really take a preview in New York to make a DC destination work? Are people in DC just not excited enough about food on their own? My fellow resident diners, j’accuse.
Last night, Chef Cooper gave me a better insight on his choice to participate in the pop-up and the food critics wars, making an excellent point “Both [New York City and Washington] are great dining cities, but they are very different markets. Manhattan is home to eight million people. It’s one of the biggest platforms for dining in the world. There is no comparing New York to DC or any other city in this country.”
