Balaban’s Closing and Joe Bonwich
Jan 31, 2008 restaurants
In today’s Post Dispatch there is an article Joe Bonwich wrote about Balaban’s closing. It’s a great piece and there’s some really interesting information about the restaurant’s history.
It’s definitely worth a read if you find yourself with a few minutes to spare.
I also ran across this article recently on thecommonspace.org that Joe Bonwich wrote in 2001 about life as a critic when he worked at the RFT.
If you like negative reviews and wish he’d write more, read it. I agree with him, and he made his case far more eloquently than I did in the “St. Louis Good” forum topic.
And if you’re a person that dislikes the term “St. Louis Good”, he nails it with this one:
…I’m fairly well convinced that our best stack up favorably against the best in all but the very top echelon of American food cities. Yet even the Zagat guides have stopped doing one for our hometown.
Tags: American food, Balaban's, Joe Bonwich, Post Dispatch
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