Raphael Brion

The Minnesota Star Tribune names acclaimed food journalist/editor Raphael Brion as its new restaurant critic - Star Tribune Company The former restaurant editor for Food & Wine is a nationally recognized voice in culinary journalism   Minneapolis, Minn. — The Minnesota Star Tribune today announced the appointment of Raphael…

‼️ Some news ‼️ So excited to announce that I’m going to be the new restaurant critic at the Minnesota @startribune.com www.startribunecompany.com/the-minnesot...

"Do the owners have some kind of kompromat on the entire food journalism industry?"

"food critics are all secretly masochists who want to be punished by a chef that hates them"

"Their accolades are more a reflection of how social media has destroyed the brains of journalists than the quality of the food"

From the austinfood community on Reddit: What is the deal with Birdie's press coverage? Explore this post and more from the austinfood community

I love an unhinged Reddit thread (this one's about Birdie's in Austin) www.reddit.com/r/austinfood...

Introducing the 2025 James Beard Media Award Nominees

holy moly a James Beard nom for my @foodandwine.com Best New Chef package!! www.jamesbeard.org/stories/2025...

!!!! @paulaforbes.bsky.social !!!!

Our Restaurant Editor’s 11 Best Dishes of 2024 The best dishes Food & Wine's Restaurant Editor Raphael Brion ate in a year across America.

The best things I ate in 2024 www.foodandwine.com/2024-best-re...

"part cabbage and part lighthouse"

This Book Is the Best Thing I've Ever Worked On Announcing Cured: Cooking with Ferments, Pickles, Preserves, & More

IT'S CURED PUBLICATION DAY!!!! Read all about this incredibly special cookbook and why you might consider purchasing it here: www.stainedpagenews.com/p/preorder-c...

this is incredible (also the best The Bear/cookbook content out there)

Is Sign Bar Celebrating or Capitalizing On Austin’s History? The far–East Austin bar is an elephant graveyard for restaurant signs of decades past, but its intended audience and purpose are unclear.

Sign Bar is so ghoulish, thank you @dansolomon.bsky.social: “It’s like visiting an elephant graveyard full of your own nostalgia—one that also serves White Claw and plays Dave Matthews Band.” https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/sign-bar-austin/

I love the photo caption: "Runners relax in the finish line area after running during Grandma’s Marathon" https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/heat-not-air-quality-proved-to-be-the-biggest-health-risk-for-grandmas-marathon-in-2023

The subculture of WeWork bros (always bros) that show up with laptops stands and spread out with two extra screens, loudly taking meetings in public spaces

"a sentient bowl of soba noodles"

introducing THE COOKBOOKS OF JUNE 2023!!! https://www.stainedpagenews.com/p/introducing-the-cookbooks-of-june

the hours-old steam table Tacodeli migas taco in which the tortilla congeals and becomes one with the eggs, transcending its mortal coil of just a "taco" and becoming something different entirely.

look at all these ~cursed restaurant spaces~ in Austin https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2023/05/30/restaurants-closed-austin-empty-retail-space-shady-grove-jav-el-azteca-gallo-threadgills/69836934007/

The Pain Sponge

Young Gerri (set in 1970s NYC, lots of cigarette smoking)

Lackey Slack

The Greglettes

Succession spinoff series ideas