The Amateur Gourment is running a Food Wars poll … on who was/is the better restaurant critic at the NYT … the current critic, Frank Bruni … or Wiliam Grimes, who left that beat in late 2003 …

Frank Bruni

• Manhattan User’s Guide reader roundup (pdf)
• blogrunner roundup of blog posts discussing Frank Bruni articles

Wiliam Grimes

• “A Critic’s Coda,” by Brian Braiker, Newsweek web exclusive, November 22, 2003
• Gothamist, January 1, 2004
• “Questions and Answers with William Grimes, Curator of New York Eats Out,” New York Public Library, October 11, 2002