Frank Bruni hands out two stars to Szechuan Gourmet in Midtown where, he says, "the heat is almost always on, and it comes at you in different ways." [NYT]
Danyelle Freeman of the Daily News is pleased enough with Sheridan Square to give it two stars, even though the restaurant's chef, Gary Robins, walked out the door last week. [NYDN]
GQ's Alan Richman pays a visit to Persimmon Kimchi House. Despite some reservations about Korean cooking, he walks away pretty happy with the $37, fixed-price, four-course menu. [Style.com]
Ryan Sutton of Bloomberg News hits up Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Matsugen, deeming it "a worthy, albeit noisier heir to Honmura An, the Zen-like soba temple that closed last year." [Bloomberg]
Paul Adams of the Sun checks in on Marc Meyer and Vicki Freeman's Hundred Acres, which was formerly Provence. [NY Sun]
