Dec. 14, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: As somebody who has written concerning the meals and beverage business for greater than 30 years, I’ve been a fan of Invoice Addison ever since his Eater days (“After two decades, I’m dropping my anonymity as a restaurant critic. Why now?,” Dec. 9). Subsequently, I used to be happy to examine Addison’s inevitable (for my part) determination to lastly step out from behind the cloak of anonymity in his place because the Los Angeles Instances restaurant critic. The late Instances meals critic Jonathan Gold came to that same conclusion years in the past.
My reasoning is that at any time when I go to a restaurant or cocktail lounge when I’m on task, I by no means try to hide who I’m or why I’m there. In reality, I typically make it some extent of letting them know. In any case, that’s the solely approach I can expertise what’s hopefully the easiest efforts of the institution, thereby setting a threshold for different clients to rightfully count on.
Richard Carleton Hacker, Sherman Oaks
