Chef Jonathon Sawyer — and a few other notable chef-owners — had a little fun at the Aspen Food and Wine Classic last week. In this Eater.com video, they read aloud some negative quips about their restaurants, staff, food… you name it. Sawyer is filmed reading a few choice lines about Noodlecat.
Watch it, won’t you?
This article appears in Jun 19-25, 2013.
For 25 years, Douglas Trattner has worked as a full-time freelance writer, editor and author. His work as co-author on Michael Symon's cookbooks have earned him four New York Times Best-Selling Author honors, while his longstanding role as Scene dining editor has garnered awards of its own.
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That video was boring. But I’d like to know why Scene is so in the tank for these chefs? Is it because they advertise in Scene? Jonathon Sawyer set up shop in the tax-payer built Browns stadium — in partnership with apparent criminal Jimmy Haslam — to serve food only to folks in the exclusive seats. These celebrity chefs in Cleveland are recipients of public subsidies and are in bed with some of the worst scum, such as Dan Gilbert and that casino monopoly. I can make noodles myself, thanks. It’s one of the poorest, most crime-ridden, most corrupt, and most rapidly depopulating cities in — not just America, but the whle industrialized world, and all this rag cares about are these trendy restaurants. Screw ’em.
FECK YOU Robert 888.
Robert, I don’t feel there is anything going on where Scene is in bed with these celebrity chefs. Cleveland is in a bit of a turnaround from where we were in the past, and the recognition our food scene has received nationally has been a big part of that. Chefs like Michael Simon have brought a lot of good publicity to Cleveland and have shown their civic pride, especially during a time when our longtime elected leaders were being arrested on corruption charges for running the city into the ground. Yes, C-town still has a long way to go, but I do feel we’re getting on the right track, and the food scene that these chefs have helped establish in Cleveland is definitely not hurting our turnaround.