“You’re going to have some Bs and Cs at restaurants that people cannot believe are Bs and Cs, and then everything will stabilize in four or five months…When one of the grand institutions of New York gets anything less than an A — if, God forbid,Le Bernadinor theFour SeasonsorJean Georgesget a B — then suddenly people will be flee as if it has been infested with bedbugs.” -Pulitzer Prize-winning food writerJonathan Gold,on NYC’s newly adopted restaurant grading system. [Wall Street Journal]
