Because today's spectacular takedown of Guy Fieri is not the first time The Grey Lady's Dining Section has thrown out zingers.

Ruth Reichl on Box Tree (March 11, 1998)

The building that used to be The Box Tree's home is now a bank.

Best zinger:

This may be one of the last restaurants in America to give guests unpriced menus. Pity, for the person paying the bill would surely want his guests to know that the meal is as expensive as it is inept.

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William Grimes on Roy's (May 26, 1999)

Source: manhattanstyle.com

Best zinger:

If clowns had a cuisine, this would be it. The food at Roy's is foolish, a parade of exotic ingredients, confused and overpowering sauces, and ideas piled one on top of the other until the recipes simply collapse under their own weight. Almost every dish is sweet -- so sweet that the desserts seem like palate cleansers.

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