Any institution, whether it is a gourmet restaurant, tending to the level of the cherished Michelin stars, or a small multi-table eatery, open to family savings, depends on the critic’s criticism – how else would potential guests find out about them, and the desired target audience? It is the audience, its size, determines the power of the critic and his weight in the overall picture of the restaurant world, because the more readers, the more important it is that they learn about the restaurant, and then decide to go there or not. If we recall how it all began, then fifteen years ago, at the dawn of restaurant criticism as a genre, Svetlana Kesoyan and Daria Tsivina, authors of Poster and Kommersant restaurant speakers, were. Continue reading →