What is the board's general consensus on Tom Fitzmorris?

I question his objectivity. He's skated too close to accepting bribes for favorable reviews. He's a standing joke on most of the serious New Orleans food blogs.

I used to love when he would let Andrea Apuzo(sp) come on and talk about all his specials and it would be obvious that Tom was patronizing him the whole time.

I think the market is prime for a younger, hipper, nonbiased radio food personality to take over.

How hard is it to get a block of radio time a few times a week?

Every Nola blogger has "friends of the blog" who scratch each others backs. Only difference is Tom is heard by more people.

You have to put up with a bit of smugness and occasional condescension, but he has good info sometimes.
His insistence on overemphasizing "POOR boy" is a bit grating.

quit listening when he said Commanders was the only true 5star in city. ****pleez.

He's really knowledgeable about old school New Orleans dining. I've read a couple of his books, and they were very good.

He can be a pompous arse to people who call into his show.

And although I don't agree with a food critic selling advertising, I'm not so sure that he's biased. Andrea's is a big advertiser with him, and I've seen him give him not so good reviews after eat club dinners there.

I've been to a couple of his eat club dinners, and had a good time. Not because he was there, but because it was a great dinner, amazing value, and I met other foodies.

I tend to think he's behind the times with always suggesting the same places, and it seems that he doesn't get out enough and try new places.

I was on his old message board for years and was always entertained.

With all of that being said, after one incident, I don't trust his reviews anymore. There was a restaurant that had been open maybe a month or so. He put it on one of his top top 10 lists (not positive which one it was...but I'm almost positive it was burgers) with a little blurb about how good it was. I was very surprised because one of his huge rules is not to go to a restaurant until it's been open for 6 months. I sent him an email inquiring about it. He'd either broken his rule, or he didn't eat there. He admitted to me he had not been to the restaurant and that his daughter had been and said it was good and he trusted her opinion. That's fine and great that he trusts his daughter's opinion, BUT he's a food critic and representing his reviews and opinions as his own. I don't go to his site to see what his 15 year old daughter thinks...especially when it's not noted that the opinion is hers, and he didn't even eat there. I go to read his opinion.

To me, that just really skated the line of honesty and rubbed me the wrong way. I never viewed him the same after that.

He was born in a poor black house in the Treme on Mardi Gras Day on the eve of the biggest hurricane to ever hit NOLA.

He lies about where he went to high school and hasn't lived in NOLA for 30 fricking years. He sucks.