Frank Bruni on Restaurants

Today Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni compiles his FAQs about restaurants, especially restaurants in New York. If you're a foodie, It's definitely worth a gander.
My favorite is Bruni's advice on what is the best and safest way to navigate a menu:

"Scratch off the appetizers and entrees that are most like dishes you’ve seen in many other restaurants, because they represent this one at its most dutiful, conservative and profit-minded. The chef’s heart isn’t in them.

Scratch off the dishes that look the most aggressively fanciful. The chef’s vanity — possibly too much of it — spawned these.

Then scratch off anything that mentions truffle oil.

Choose among the remaining dishes."

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photo: the dining room at 11 Madison Park, one of Bruni's favorites