PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland’s popular ice cream chain Salt & Straw received a disastrous review at the hands of New York Post restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo on Monday.
The critique was written in response to Salt & Straw’s first New York location, which opened on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Sept. 20. According to the review, Cuozzo found Portland’s brand of ice cream underwhelming, unnecessary and, at times, inedible. It was enough for him to take aim at the company and Portland’s entire restaurant culture.
“The outfit’s weirder confections should have stayed in Portland, a city with possibly the nation’s most self-important culinary scene,” Cuozzo wrote.
The critic was “fine” with some of Salt & Straw’s classic flavors like Double-Fold Vanilla, which he called “one-dimensional” compared to a local gelato spot down the street. But the chain’s riskier ice cream flavors, like Pastrami-on-Rye, were declared “pretentious.”
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