To the editor: As somebody who has written in regards to the meals and beverage trade for greater than 30 years, I’ve been a fan of Invoice Addison ever since his Eater days (“After 20 years, I’m dropping my anonymity as a restaurant critic. Why now?,” Dec. 9). Due to this fact, I used to be happy to examine Addison’s inevitable (in my view) resolution to lastly step out from behind the cloak of anonymity in his place because the Los Angeles Instances restaurant critic. The late Instances meals critic Jonathan Gold got here to that very same conclusion years in the past.
My reasoning is that each time I go to a restaurant or cocktail lounge when I’m on project, I by no means try to hide who I’m or why I’m there. In truth, I usually make it some extent of letting them know. In spite of everything, that’s the solely means I can expertise what’s hopefully the perfect efforts of the institution, thereby setting a threshold for different prospects to rightfully anticipate.
Richard Carleton Hacker, Sherman Oaks
