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Robert Sietsema
Critic · Journalist — Cheap and mid-priced eating across all five boroughs and into New Jersey. He covers the counters, bakeries and one-dish specialists that the star-rated desks rarely reach. If an entry in this unit is a bakery, a slice shop or a Chinatown counter, he is the critic most likely to have been there.
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Robert Sietsema has been reviewing restaurants in New York City for more than 35 years, at The Village Voice, at Lucky Peach and at Gourmet before Eater, and Eater describes him as its former senior critic for New York. He specialises, in the publication's own words, in food that is fun to eat and not expensive, and his byline still ran on Eater's city guides through June 2026.
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