Percy Street is out of the country ham plate today. Bummer. I’d finally decided to try it.

@ Findthemhere

Hmmm…. More like 20% of posts and considering that this firm represents chefs like Garces and Solomonov and restaurants like A Kitchen and Le Virtu, the proportion of posts for those restaurants actually seems a bit lower than what’s appropriate.

Here’s why your post response is retarded: Yes, PR firms (and the restaurants themselves) will send stuff out to Foobooz and other food blogs. It’s Foobooz’s job – among other things – to decide whether what’s released to them is going to be interesting to the average Foobooz reader and post it if it is.

For example, I happen to love Southwark, and I love the pork from Cochon. If they’re having a joint pop-up dinner, and a Foobooz post on it happens to be a form of free advertising for the restaurant, all the better.

You don’t think Federal Donuts, Garces restaurants, Zahav, the Farm and Fisherman, Russet, Blackfish, and Ela deserve coverage the amount of coverage they receive?

National magazines and newspapers like the NYT have covered some of these places, but maybe you know better.

Here’s an idea: If you don’t want to hear about beer events, restaurant pop-ups, cocktail menus, and seasonal menu changes at the better restaurants in the city DON’T READ A FOOD BLOG.

If Foobooz is slapping up posts promoting crappy restaurants because it’s cozy with them (and I don’t think that’s the case), readers will vote with their feet.

All this said, I do have to admit that part of what I enjoy about reading this food blog are the inane responses by the 6-8 really miserable people who manage to get really upset about nice new places to eat and drinking opening up in this city.