{"id":87626,"date":"2025-12-09T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87626\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:02:18","slug":"l-a-times-restaurant-critic-bill-addison-unveils-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87626\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Times restaurant critic Bill Addison unveils himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                 <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Bill Addison\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/bill-addison\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Bill Addison\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765288937_911_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>  <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Mark E. Potts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/mark-potts\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Mark Potts.\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765288938_874_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>      Dec. 9, 2025 3 AM PT                          <\/p>\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<p>Anonymity in reviews has a lingering mystique from an era when tiny cameras were fantastical Bond gadgets, writes Times critic Bill Addison. Anonymity was a kind of armor. Removing it feels lighter, but far more vulnerable. Unveiling my face won\u2019t change how I go about the business of reviewing. The Times pays for all my meals.<\/p>\n<p>               <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Bill Addison\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/bill-addison\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765288937_911_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Bill Addison is the restaurant critic of the Los Angeles Times. He is recipient of the 2023 Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award from the James Beard Foundation, among numerous other accolades. Addison was previously national critic for Eater and held food critic positions at the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News and Atlanta magazine.<\/p>\n<p>         <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Mark E. Potts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/mark-potts\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765288938_874_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master\u2019s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 9, 2025 3 AM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Anonymity in reviews has a lingering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49033,2491,40877,5053,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,5056,5055,49034,2022,5052,550,5054,1816,5050,2278],"class_list":["post-87626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bill-addison","tag-degree","tag-dreamworks","tag-enid","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-master","tag-microsoft","tag-national-critic","tag-native","tag-okla","tag-oklahoma","tag-potts","tag-university","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}