'Are Restaurant bloggers still relevant?' Diane Jacob

I know restaurant bloggers still exist, but I can barely find them.

I’m not the only one. The annual Saveur Best Food Blog awards doesn’t even list “restaurant blogs” as a category.

Sure, there are people who write reviews for websites such as Tasting Table and urbanspoon.com. But it seems that there are few individual food blogs based on restaurants.

Instead, restaurant writing takes three main forms these days:

Full-time restaurant critic. ...
Freelance restaurant writer for websites and publications.
Reviewing for free on Yelp and other sites. Yelp is the main place to read online restaurant reviews. Yelp has posted more than 53 million reviews since it began in 2004. (The reviewers use lots of analogies to sex and drugs,according to a study.)
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