Veteran restaurant critic Robert Sietsema writes about New York City dining, focusing on inexpensive eats, neighborhood food crawls, and restaurant openings. Readers get specific dish and venue recommendations along with historical and cultural context.

A Houston food critic's personal newsletter mixing restaurant reviews and revisits with food-focused travel dispatches, including recent trips to Japan. Readers get vivid, opinionated writing on specific dishes, places and local dining scenes.

Long-form second-person food essays about individual restaurants in Providence, Rhode Island, each opening with practical details like location, hours and visit date. The writing blends restaurant description with personal anecdotes about friends, writing groups and daily life.

Ravenous is a worker-owned publication that mixes personal essays on restaurants, food and culture with reporting on issues like restaurant data collection and the role of food in community life. Readers get opinionated, first-person takes on specific dining experiences alongside pieces on the broader social meaning of what people eat.