Behind the Headlines
Restaurant critic retires
Longtime critic Dale Bentson looks back on 18 years of reviewing restaurants for Embarcadero Media. Read his retrospective of covering the Midpeninsula dining scene here. Bentson joins Palo Alto Weekly staff writer Elena Kadvany, who runs the blog "Peninsula Foodist," and Mountain View Voice Editor Andrea Gemmet.
January 18, 2019
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