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    Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    And before I forget:


    Bocuse day?

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    Image of lawyergay lawyergay
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    P.S. If Bill (I'm assuming Keller) actually penned the words "food-o-sphere," then that makes me feel a lot better about the imminent demise of the Times.


    It turns out that the political, literary, culinary and otherwise social arbiters of taste and acceptable debate at our "paper of record" are a bunch of clueless jackasses! Who knew?

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    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    I'm loving Bruni's headshot. He's like the 11th-string David Hasselhoff of New York food critics.
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    Image of Jesse Hoff Jesse Hoff
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    So is Bittman the front runner for the job, or does he want to stay in the kitchen?
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    05/14/09

    @Jesse Hoff: Please let it be Bittman.
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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    Opening that job posting in the midst of a recession has led me to fruitlessly search for a word that is a more severe form of "chumming."
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    When Frank Bruni goes swimming, he can taste a shark's blood in the water from 150 miles away.
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    Most humans have about 10,000 taste buds. Each of Frank Bruni's taste buds has 10,000 taste buds.
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    Image of The Recession Is Over The Recession Is Over
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    When I used to work at Craft Steak when they opened up we had that black and white photo, with about the same resolution hanging back of house. One night everyone was standing on edge because we had a reservation for Jim Kirk (he is known for booking reservations under star trek names). It wasn't him, but the next day he did come in and got drunk off his butt... I'll miss the days of Bruni spotting.
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    Image of karion karion
    05/14/09

    @Because you're gay, or were born to be gay.: Tell me stories of Bruni and of Collicchio. I'll take almost anything.
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    Image of hman hman
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    Argh! I will really miss the thin veil of sexuality in his reviews.

    But if this means no more Amanda Hesser in the magazine, yay.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    05/14/09

    @hman: Hesser? I hardly know her.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    Other than an impending very serious heart attack, I can't think of any reason in the entire fucking world that I would give up his job. Unless they were establishing a blowjob reviewer column.
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    05/14/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: Absolutely. But somehow I get that idea that as a restaurant reviewer for the NYT, blowjobs would just come with the territory.


    Anyways, who is this guy?--correspondent in Rome, beloved restaurant critic and employed journalist. Was he Jesus in his past life?

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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    05/14/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: Four stars, obviously, would go to Julia Allison.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    05/14/09

    @El_Gato: I doubt she gives a very good blowjob.
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    Image of ellagood ellagood
    05/14/09

    @El_Gato: out of how many stars? 75?
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    Oh, hire Toby Young! And then gag me with an apricot.
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    Without Frank Bruni, who will keep us safe from Robert DeNiro?
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    Also, I've finally figured out Frank Bruni's doppleganger. It's Scott Boras, asshole extraordinaire and superagent to overpaid athletes:


    [weblogs.newsday.com]


    [assets.nydailynews.com]


    Not that it matters. I'm sure that for a chef, it'd be a nightmare to have either of these prickly assholes show up asking for a menu.

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    05/14/09

    @El_Gato: Frank Bruni doesn't show up and ask for a menu. The restaurant takes the 6 train to Frank Bruni's apartment, waits patiently to be buzzed up, and prostrates itself in the hallway.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    You know when little kids don't want someone to leave and so they sit on their foot and hold on to their leg? So yeah that's totally what I'm doing to Frank Bruni in my mind right now.
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    05/14/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: You take the right, I'll take the left.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    In reply to Frank Bruni Leaving the Restaurant Beat
    I'd apply for the job except that in my last review, I misspelled words like "piscetti" and "popstikkle", I made numerous threatening remarks about the UN, and the last 450 words were just "Screw Flanders!" again and again.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    05/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I ordered the fish, and the waiter just told me this is POISSON! What are you trying to do, KILL ME??
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    05/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Groin-grabbingly funny!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    @m4ximusprim3: NYT totally stole two of my reviews: At McDonald's, McRib Still Best Bet and 3 Harvey Wallbangers and 5 Pickled Eggs Equals Money Well Spent At Local Watering Hole
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    05/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: We spell it "bassketti" over in this house.
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    05/14/09

    @momof3wildkids: Shut up, Flanders!
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