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01/09/06
Eat This New York (2002)
39 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 7 Rotten:11 Average Rating: 5.3/10
Runtime: 82 mins
Synopsis: New York City is perhaps as renowned for its fancy restaurants as for its art, culture, and architecture. In fall 2001, two old friends, John McCormick and Billy Phelps, decided they wanted to open a small place on a dilapidated corner in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. They... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
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1 - 18 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Everyone who ever thought about opening a restaurant should watch Eat This New York.
09/02/04
The oddest thing about this sweet but not entirely satisfying documentary is how little food is involved.
04/23/04
This lively, absorbing documentary about best friends who open a tiny cafe in the heart of Brooklyn is full of such mouth-watering shots of cooking and eating that a jumbo-sized popcorn and pallid soda simply won't do.
04/23/04
Entrepreneurs are what the U.S. is all about: This doc provides a nice take on what it takes to risk all for a business vision.
04/11/04
The documentary is all over the place but for anybody who has ever sneaked a peak at the Food Network, there is bound to be a morsel or two in this dish that's to your liking.
02/13/04
The treatment is so meandering and flaccid that what might have been a spicy study of service capitalism instead proves a decidedly bland dish.
02/11/04
This unfocused and at times obnoxious movie comes off more like an excuse for directors Andrew Rossi and Kate Novack to kiss up to swankier Manhattan restaurateurs.
01/31/04
So, how's the food? The camera never even goes up close. That's the kind of restaurant documentary this is.
01/30/04
the only feel we're given for the opening of a restaurant is the coping with building contractors...Café Moto literally arises from dust and ashes
01/30/04
Entertaining documentary about the odds against making it in the New York City restaurant business.
01/29/04
It will be impossible for you to walk past a shuttered restaurant and not feel a chill after seeing this documentary.
01/29/04
Top Critic
Though the celebrities often speak the truth, it has nothing to do with the dopes in the dark hole under the M tracks.
01/27/04
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