I am doing a restaurant review, writing about my experience in certain restaurants and give readers brief ideas ahead of their visit so they can be prepared how the restaurant is going to be. I found many different types of restaurant reviews and I found this guy named Pete Wells, he is a professional restaurant review critic who works for the New York times. I thought I liked blog type reviews but his reviews looked professional and trustworthy. While other reviews focused on introducing good things about restaurants, his reviews looked neutral and trustworthy. I chose his reviews that I found interesting for my texts.

–Top New York Restaurants of 2016

–The Art of Flavor at Flora Bar in the Met Breuer

I categorised some objects Wells’ reviews cover, which are the mood, price range, sanitation, kitchen crew, menu, and some dishes to suggest. Reviews can have diverse styles such as listing few brief explanations for many restaurants or choosing one and listing all the details. Each will have its own advantages. Reviews should also think about the readers, and which readers it wants. Most of the readers who read reviews will be there at the moment for the first time, or planning to be there soon for the first time. The point is that they have not been there. The purpose of restaurant reviews are to walk through each step as if the readers were there and give backgrounds so they will not be frustrated or have difficulty in choosing their dishes. In Pete Wells’ reviews for an example, he always includes the pictures or short videos of the outlook and inside of the restaurant, some dishes he suggests, the mood, and kitchen crews. It’s better to see it once than hearing it a thousand times.