Photograph: Virginia Rollison
Photograph: Virginia Rollison |

Issue 653 (April 3–9, 2008)

COMMERCE

Rating: 4/6


“[Harold] Moore’s high-end food taps into a nostalgia of a different sort, with a surfeit of luxury ingredients bringing a dose of F. Scott Fitzgerald into a room that, incongruously, still shouts Joseph Mitchell.”

Jay Cheshes’s all-time 50 best restaurant review quotes

As the sun sets on this restaurant critic’s five-year run covering the NYC dining scene, we pay homage to the stint with his 50 most memorable restaurant review quotes, from no-star clunkers to five-star blockbusters.

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Time Out New York critic Jay Cheshes kicked off his term in 2008 with his restaurant review of American spot Commerce. We take a look back on the last five years of the NYC dining scene, including game changers (Torrisi Italian Specialties), instaclassics (Minetta Tavern) and flat-out disasters (Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar). Here are 50 of Cheshes’s best plaudits, witticisms and zingers in his five years as TONY’s chief restaurant critic.
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