Elevated Food Wire

Critic Ryan Sutton files a followup piece on The Price Hike to his 2 1/2 star review of Wylie Dufresne's New York City restaurant Alder. On the $13 pigs-in-a-blanket: "Chefs Wylie Dufresne and Jon Bignelli are getting us to pay a few bucks more for elevated pub food, just as Alex Stupak gets us to pay more for refined Mexican fare, just as Danny Bowien gets us to pay more for take-out-style Chinese-American fare, and just as Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi get us to pay a HECK OF A LOT MORE for Italian-American fare." [The Price Hike]