New York Magazine Does A Lengthy Travel Spread On Vancouver’s Restaurant Scene

It’s always pretty cool when Vancouver gets positive attention in well respected foreign publications, but it’s much cooler when some of that positive attention is focused on you. Scout Magazine just got a nice shout out in New York Magazine’s “Eat Your Way Through Vancouver” travel spread. Also singled out in the story are “C”, Market, The Diamond, Save On Meats, L’Abattoir, Maenam, and a bunch of other worthies. Yay, us.

Restaurateur Goes Nuts, Warns Of Streets Running With Blood…

Yesterday, and observant reader sent in a link to some New York Magazine coverage of a restaurateur in mid-meltdown. Vadim Ponorovsky, owner of Paradou restaurant in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, recently sent out a group email to his staff berating them for their inability to coax enough email addresses from their customers:

Everytime we have a slow night and you make no money and you sit there bitching about how you make no money, remember its because youre fucking lazy motherfuckers. YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY!!!!! ALL OF YOU, INCLUDING THE HOSTS!!!!…

…Youre probably sitting there saying “How dare he speak to me like this. How dare he not have respect for me”. Youre right there also. I have absolutely no respect for any of you….if you dont respect us enough to do the little that we ask you to do, then GET THE FUCK OUT YOU FUCKING LAZY DISRESPECTFUL ASSHOLES!!!!!

And so on. Nice right? But it gets better. Read more

Critic Gael Greene Fired

Legendary New York Magazine restaurant critic has been fired as a cost-cutting measure after 40 years on the job. Via Feedbag:

Gael Greene, the brand name of restaurant journalism for 40 years at New York magazine has been fired by the magazine effective immediately. The magazine gave her one last hurrah with a coverline on “The Most Important Restaurants in 40 Years” in its 40th anniversary issue October 6, 2008, and said goodbye six weeks later.  “I describe it as cutting off your nose to spite your face,” Greene said. At her premature “retirement” Greene was no longer the weekly critic, having asked to be replaced in 2000, setting off an 18-month search for a replacement that brought on Adam Platt in January 2002. She remained on the masthead as a contributing editor to write a weekly column called “Insatiable Critic.”

Ouch.