Housekeeping Thomas Street Bistro
posted by on January 24 at 12:54 PM
A few weeks ago, Stranger freelancer Chris McCann reviewed Thomas Street Bistro. Two weeks ago we pulled the review from our web archive because our timing was off. The restaurant opened in November and McCann was assigned to review it less than two months later, which was against our editorial policy of waiting at least three months before doing a formal review of a new restaurant. That’s why you can read comments about McCann’s review, but not the review itself, on our restaurants page. We’ll do a formal review of Thomas Street Bistro at some point in the future.
Meanwhile, if you’ve been to Thomas Street Bistro and want to write your own review, there’s no policy against readers reviewing restaurants at any time. Have at it.
UPDATE: Ladies and gentlemen, the review is back!
You should change the policy.
Fairness is a beautiful thing, but that joint will probably still suck.
That was a long, wandering smackdown of a review. I remember it. Will you be retracting it in the print edition? How about on the cover?
Fearless journalism! Deleted because it ran one month early? Say, you didn't happen to hear from their attorney did you?
Agreeing with no. 3, that was a "long, wandering smackdown of a review." What's the point of singling out an unremarkable and largely unknown restaurant for a thoroughly negative review? The review certainly didn't help anyone decide where to go for dinner unless, maybe, they happened to live within a few blocks of the restaurant. The review won't be missed.
One thing I like to see on the menu is...an enormous penis!
Wow, now your restaurant reviews are tainted, too. Too bad: they were the only thing I read in the Stranger. And you can't even do that right, can you?
Yes, but why are they getting free advertising from this???:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/blogs/dailyweekly/2008/01/stranger_eats_its_words.php
And why on Earth would a reviewer think it was okay to bring his wife and baby to a restaurant while he's doing his job, what is this take your family to work day?!
Have you seen Thomas St. Bistro its tiny and intimate you would be doing a disservice to all of the other customers had the baby started crying and it was a music night too?
You are trying to be a foodie magazine, but this defies all journalistic integrity and the fact that you didn't mention this before you pulled the article that's really strange?
I just don't understand. I think its more against policy to take advantage of the system and take your whole family on an outing to do your job and not be focused on the meal. Have you ever taken a baby to a restaurant, HOW THE HELL CAN YOU FOCUS?!
Christopher, that was a spin job worthy of any presidential candidate.
The Weekly reports you have other reviews of restaurants that were done only about a month after they opened. Will you be pulling those down as well? Or is this explanation pure bullshit?
Ah, the freedom that comes when a corporation has few ethical restraints! The Stranger owns a weekly in Portland that apparently likes to review restaurants before they even open. (go down five paragraphs)
http://wweek.com/editorial/3121/6154/
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