# Are Restaurant Critics Obsolete? Part 1

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Podcast: [Special Sauce with Ed Levine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852)
Published: 2026-02-27T20:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Are restaurant critics dinosaurs in the age of social media? We discuss that and more in part one of our critic's roundtable with The New Yorker's Hannah Goldfield , The Washington Post's Elazar Sontag , and The Los Angeles Times' Bill Addison . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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