Dine Out Maine: A once and future critic
What was, what is, what will be. Critic Andrew Ross ponders how to return to restaurant criticism after the pandemic convulsion.
By Andrew Ross
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The Korean BBQ Pork Nachos at Foulmouthed Brewing. Do these indicate critic Andrew Ross not-so-secret love of pork? Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part retrospective looking back on the previous few decades of Maine dining.
The Past (2016-20)
I can pinpoint the moment when I realized I was no longer “the new guy.” About a year into my time as the restaurant critic, a reader e-mailed me a terse message that seemed to incorporate both a Seinfeldian observation and an indirect rebuke: “You sure like to talk about pork, don’t you?”
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