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Tejal Rao

Critic · Journalist — Restaurants across the United States at every price point and format, from truck stops to tasting menus to pop-ups. Los Angeles is her base, so in this unit she is a visiting critic rather than the local one.

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Tejal Rao is a co-chief restaurant critic of The New York Times, where she has written about food since 2016, first as a reporter and later as the California restaurant critic and a critic at large. She reviewed restaurants for The Village Voice before that and covered New York rooms for Bloomberg News, so the city is not new ground for her. She books under other names, accepts no free food or drink, and turns down invitations from chefs and publicists.

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