Posts Tagged ‘Lauriol Plaza’
This Week’s Greatest Hits from the Y&H Blog
Here, once again, are the Top 10 items from the week, as decided by you, the loyal reader:
1. NBC Washington Calls Lauriol Plaza the ‘Best Mexican Food in D.C.’
2. Food Tats: Cupcakes Are the New Skulls
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4. When Sex and Food Go Too Far
5. Finally, Scientific Evidence on America’s Best Tasting Mass-Production Beer
6. Todd Wiss Out as Executive Chef at Black’s Bar and Kitchen
7. Y&H Contest: Create Your Own Gross Holiday Cookie
8. Will the Economy Kill the Lunch Buffet?
9. NPR: Connecticut Takes On the Slimy Elements of the Olive Oil Business
Critics Attacking Critics Attacking Critics. Where Will It End? Not Here.
Earlier this week, I posted an item on NBC Washington naming Lauriol Plaza as the “Best Mexican” joint in D.C., which has generated a fair number of comments, pro and con, on the Tex-Mex behemoth. But some of the better commentary has come from other sources, including my own Gmail account, where a friend back in Texas insists I went soft on NBC Washington’s Sery Kim:
“Dude! Where’s the snark? You’re not filing an amicus curiae brief here. You’re entertaining the burrito-gobbling masses! I think I need to come up to D.C. and teach you how to be a bitch, Bitch…”
Now, this insult comes from a friend, mind you. This morning, however, Editor Andrew forwarded this item from the Examiner where Jasmine Touton (who, ahem, “itches to discover unique eateries with raw authenticity”) thinks I was a little harsh on Kim. Touton writes:
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NBC Washington Calls Lauriol Plaza the ‘Best Mexican Food in D.C.’
You have to love the counter-intuitive chutzpah, the iron-willed stubbornness, even the screw-the-critics contrariness of Sery Kim over at NBC Washington who writes that, “Lauriol Plaza is sheer bliss,” and that the much-maligned temple of Tex-Mex is “[s]uperb, superb, superb.”
She and the editors over at NBC Washington dub it the “Best Mexican Food in D.C.”
You can’t begrudge someone’s dining opinion. The palate is too personal to start casting aspersions on anyone’s taste (though, God knows such activities make for good copy and reality TV.) But Kim, whoever the critic is, should have at least done a Google search on the place to help put this glowing review in better context; if you’re going to call Lauriol Plaza the best Mexican joint in D.C., you desperately need to acknowledge how far you’re going against the prevailing critical thinking.
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