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I have kept my mouth shut so many times but this AGAIN? we're doing this AGAIN? while the entire culinary scene in the region is clinging via the slimmest thread to survival, while truly excellent restaurants have already had to close, and many people in the industry can't work?
I truly cannot fathom anything I would want to read about *less* than the restaurants someone tried during their vacation to Las Vegas during a pandemic.
The sub-header and the first sentence are remarkable in their efforts to justify to the reader why we're seeing this on the front page of the food section, but the reason why, after multiple instances of this, seems to be that the writer is more interested in Vegas than Spokane.
I am tired. The entire industry is scared and tired. So yet another instance of opening my local paper to read restaurant reviews of places 1,000 miles away in Vegas, during a pandemic when most people can't or won't travel, is not amusing. It's insulting.
It's insulting to everyone in the industry who is fighting for survival, it's insulting to any restaurant in the city who hasn't been reviewed or received coverage, and it's embarrassing that I need to risk angering the editors of our local daily newspaper to point this out.
I don't know the word count, but let's say that the list at the end—which is an attempt to justify the impulse to self-indulgently write about Vegas again— let's say that comprises 15% of the piece? Why not just write the entire piece about those restaurants??
"okay, taking it back to Spokane"
There have been big, significant stories that could have been explored through the Food section in the past few years, and they're not being told, and that's a damn shame.
