Eater, the food blog that started in 2005 as a self-proclaimed restaurant rumor mill, has hired three experienced restaurant critics, an ambitious expansion under its new owner, Vox Media, which acquired Eater.com and its siblings Curbed.com and Racked.com in November.
The new reviewers are the former Village Voice critic Robert Sietsema, the former Atlanta Magazine writer Bill Addison and the notorious penny pincher Ryan Sutton, who analyzes restaurant checks on his blog The Price Hike and was the restaurant reviewer for Bloomberg. All will work full time for Eater, with a “substantial” budget for dining out, said Lockhart Steele, Eater’s founder.
“We have matched what Bloomberg was giving Sutton,” said Mr. Steele, who is vice president of editorial at Vox, the media company that bought the blogs for a reported $20 million to $30 million and recently hired the journalist Ezra Klein. Mr. Steele started the site as a spinoff of Curbed, his popular blog about New York City real estate. Eater plumed itself on being bratty and obsessed with the chefs who run the restaurants that bratty, tech-savvy New Yorkers were obsessed with.
Amanda Kludt, Eater’s editorial director, said Mr. Sutton and Mr. Sietsema would both review New York restaurants on a schedule to be determined, while Mr. Addison would write three times a week, covering the rest of the nation.
via:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/dining/eater-hires-three-restaurant-critics.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
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