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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Adam Platt</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1958-07-18</span>) </span>July 18, 1958<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 66)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Writer, restaurant critic</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data title">Senior Restaurant Critic at <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Kate Platt</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Platt" title="Nicholas Platt">Nicholas Platt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Platt" title="Oliver Platt">Oliver Platt</a> (brother)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Adam_Platt_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Adam_Platt_signature.svg/150px-Adam_Platt_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Adam_Platt_signature.svg/225px-Adam_Platt_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Adam_Platt_signature.svg/300px-Adam_Platt_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="469" data-file-height="331" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Adam Platt</b> (born July 18, 1958) is an American writer and restaurant critic.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is currently the senior restaurant critic for <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Magazine">New York</a></i> magazine, a position he has held since July 2000, when he succeeded <a href="/wiki/Gael_Greene" title="Gael Greene">Gael Greene</a>. He won the <a href="/wiki/James_Beard_Foundation" title="James Beard Foundation">James Beard Foundation</a> Journalism Award for Restaurant Reviews in 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has been nominated for the same award on other occasions. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adam_Platt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Platt was born in Washington, D.C., and is the son of <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Platt" title="Nicholas Platt">Nicholas Platt</a>, the former president of the <a href="/wiki/Asia_Society" title="Asia Society">Asia Society</a>, in New York City, and a career diplomat for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Service" title="United States Foreign Service">United States Foreign Service</a> who served as U.S. ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zambia" title="Zambia">Zambia</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the older brother of the actor <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Platt" title="Oliver Platt">Oliver Platt</a>, who has said he used his brother's real-life eating experience to inform his performance as restaurant critic Ramsey Michel in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Chef_(2014_film)" title="Chef (2014 film)">Chef</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Platt credits his rambling childhood – the Platts lived for extended periods of time in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo — with shaping his wide-ranging and eclectic appetites.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Platt is a graduate of the <a href="/wiki/American_School_in_Japan" title="American School in Japan">American School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>, Japan, the <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_University_School_of_Foreign_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgetown University School of Foreign Service">Georgetown University School of Foreign Service</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University_Graduate_School_of_Journalism" title="Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism">Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Journalism_and_restaurant_criticism">Journalism and restaurant criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adam_Platt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Journalism and restaurant criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before becoming a full-time restaurant critic,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Platt wrote and worked for many publications including <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he was a Talk of the Town staff writer, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Observer" title="The New York Observer">The New York Observer</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Elle_(magazine)" title="Elle (magazine)">Elle</a></i>, where he wrote monthly columns, and <i><a href="/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Traveler" title="Condé Nast Traveler">Condé Nast Traveler</a></i> where he was a contributing editor for many years and travelled on assignment to the Southern Island of <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, <a href="/wiki/Botswana" title="Botswana">Botswana</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also spent time working and living in Washington, D.C. and is the co-author of columnist <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Alsop" title="Joseph Alsop">Joseph Alsop</a>'s memoir, <i>I've Seen the Best of It</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Platt has always said that his quirky, eclectic background contributes to his style as a reviewer, which he describes in his memoir <i>The Book of Eating</i><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as "part cultural essay, part personal diary, part service journalist, and part travel and cultural commentary".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the early Aughts Platt coined the term "Haute Barnyard" to describe the Farm to Table craze sweeping the gourmet restaurants of New York City. He has written extensively on the controversial practice of tipping,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the demise of the old diner culture around New York.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Platt has said his "lumberjack size" makes it difficult to disguise himself in restaurants.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 2014 he became one of the first prominent restaurant critics in the US to do away with what he described as the pretentious "Kabuki dance" of fake disguises and anonymity, when <i>New York</i> magazine's former editor, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Moss" title="Adam Moss">Adam Moss</a>, decided to feature him on the cover.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prominent New York restaurateurs, including <a href="/wiki/Mario_Batali" title="Mario Batali">Mario Batali</a> and <a href="/wiki/Keith_McNally" title="Keith McNally">Keith McNally</a>, have taken issue with his reviews over the years,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2013 he was kicked out of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rich_Torrisi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rich Torrisi (page does not exist)">Rich Torrisi</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mario_Carbone%27s&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mario Carbone's (page does not exist)">Mario Carbone's</a> <a href="/wiki/West_Village" title="West Village">West Village</a> restaurant, <a href="/wiki/ZZ%27s_Clam_Bar" title="ZZ's Clam Bar">ZZ's Clam Bar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adam_Platt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Platt is married to the architect Kate Platt. 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