Adam Platt
Born (1958-07-18) July 18, 1958
Washington, D.C., United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Writer, restaurant critic
TitleSenior Restaurant Critic at New York
SpouseKate
Children2
RelativesNicholas Platt (father)
Oliver Platt (brother)
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Adam Platt (born July 18, 1958) is an American writer and restaurant critic.[1][2] He is currently the senior restaurant critic for New York magazine, a position he has held since July 2000, when he succeeded Gael Greene. He won the James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Restaurant Reviews in 2009,[3] and has been nominated for the same award multiple times.

Early life and education

Platt was born in Washington, D.C., and is the son of Nicholas Platt, the former president of the Asia Society, in New York City, and a career diplomat for the United States Foreign Service who served as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia, and the Philippines.[4] He is the older brother of the actor Oliver Platt, who has said he used his brother's real-life eating experience to inform his performance as restaurant critic Ramsey Michel in the film Chef.[5] Platt credits his rambling childhood -- the Platts lived for extended periods of time in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo — with shaping his wide-ranging and eclectic appetites.[6]

Platt is a graduate of the American School in Tokyo, Japan, the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Journalism and restaurant criticism

Before becoming a full-time restaurant critic,[7] Platt wrote and worked for many publications including The New Yorker,[8] where he was a Talk of the Town staff writer, The New York Observer and Elle, where he wrote monthly columns, and Condé Nast Traveler where he was a contributing editor for many years and travelled on assignment to the Southern Island of New Zealand, Botswana, China and Tokyo.[9]

He also spent time working and living in Washington, D.C., and is the co-author, with the columnist, Joseph Alsop, of Alsop's book of memoirs I've Seen the Best of It.[10][11]

Platt has always said that his quirky, eclectic background contributes to his style as a reviewer, which he describes in his memoir The Book of Eating[12] as “part cultural essay, part personal diary, part service journalist, and part travel and cultural commentary”.[13] In the early Aughts Platt coined the term “Haute Barnyard” to describe the Farm to Table craze sweeping the gourmet restaurants of New York City. He has written extensively on the controversial practice of tipping,[14] and the demise of the old diner culture around New York.[15][16]

Platt has said his “lumberjack size” makes it difficult to disguise himself in restaurants.[17] In January 2014 he became one of the first prominent restaurant critics in the US to do away with what he described as the pretentious "Kabuki dance" of fake disguises and anonymity, when New York magazine's former editor, Adam Moss, decided to feature him on the cover.[18][19]

Prominent New York restaurateurs, including Mario Batali and Keith McNally, have taken issue with his reviews over the years,[20][21][22] and in 2013 he was kicked out of Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone's West Village restaurant, ZZ's Clam Bar.[23][24]

Personal life

Platt is married to the architect Kate Platt. They live in New York City with their two daughters.

References

  1. ↑ "Adam Platt | Writer - Professional Eater - Bilious Gourmand". The Official Website of Adam Platt.
  2. ↑ "Longform Podcast #133: Adam Platt · Longform". Longform.
  3. ↑ "Winners Announced For The 2009 James Beard Foundation Media Awards". D Magazine. 4 May 2009.
  4. ↑ Whitehead, Kate (18 April 2015). "Interview: Nicholas Platt and his famous sons, The West Wing's Oliver and restaurant critic Adam, talk about food politics". South China Morning Post.
  5. ↑ Miller, Gregory E. (4 May 2014). "Oliver Platt channeled his real-life critic brother for 'Chef'". New York Post.
  6. ↑ Rozen, Leah (11 September 2010). "Cilantro, the Flavor of Memory (Published 2010)". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ Reichl, Ruth; Irby, Samantha; Chee, Alexander; Platt, Adam; Crosley, Sloane; Buford, Bill; Machado, Carmen Maria (16 June 2020). "Our Lives Happen in Restaurants". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ "Adam Platt". The New Yorker.
  9. ↑ Platt, Adam. "That Mango Will Blow Your Damn Mind". Condé Nast Traveler.
  10. ↑ Roberts, Roxanne (18 March 1992). "'THE BEST OF' JOE ALSOP". Washington Post.
  11. ↑ Platt, Adam; Alsop, Joseph W. "The Wasp Ascendancy". NyBooks.com. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  12. ↑ Platt, Adam (2019). The book of eating : adventures in professional gluttony (First HarperLuxe ed.). New York, NY. p. 384. ISBN 978-0062944887.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ↑ Garner, Dwight (9 December 2019). "In New Memoirs, Food Writers Serve Up Stories About Their Beat (Published 2019)". The New York Times.
  14. ↑ "Why are Americans "addicted" to tipping?". CBS News. 24 November 2014.
  15. ↑ Platt, Adam (28 June 2017). "Watching and Lamenting the Death of the New York Diner". Grub Street. New York Magazine.
  16. ↑ "Are Diners Dead? | The Leonard Lopate Show". WNYC. 20 July 2017.
  17. ↑ Davis, Shoshana. "Who is Adam Platt? NY Magazine's restaurant critic reveals face". CBS News. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  18. ↑ "Where to Eat 2014 - Adam Platt on Why He's Abandoning His Disguise". New York Magazine. 28 December 2013.
  19. ↑ Willett-Wei, Megan (30 December 2013). "New York Magazine's Restaurant Critic Reveals His Face, And It's About Time". Business Insider.
  20. ↑ Venezia, Todd (15 May 2010). "Keith McNally lashes out at food critic". New York Post.
  21. ↑ "Restaurateur Keith McNally Deals with Bad Review by Calling Critic Fat". Gawker. EaterNY. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  22. ↑ Cuozzo, Steve (19 May 2010). "Whine and dine". New York Post.
  23. ↑ Tepper, Rachel (17 October 2013). "Restaurant Allegedly Kicks Out Food Critic". HuffPost.
  24. ↑ Canavan, Hillary Dixler (17 October 2013). "Critic Adam Platt Booted from ZZ's Clam Bar in NYC". Eater.
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