Worst restaurant of the year?
December brings a blizzard of best-restaurant rankings, with the industry sliced and diced in a variety of ways to suggest where consumers should eat in the New Year. Far rarer is the distinction bestowed on Trump Grill, the steakhouse that stands to become a major tourist destination because it serves as a home kitchen of sorts for the president-elect.
The upscale establishment is nestled in Trump Tower, the shopping and residential palace on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and the home of Donald Trump itself. With that sort of pedigree, the place can’t help but be hit—though there is that problem of being named the worst restaurant in America.
The designation came from no less of a buzz maker than Vanity Fair, an arbiter of taste and fashion for those in the know. The publication’s website made the argument that taste and fashion were sorely lacking at the pricey restaurant, leaving little more than gaudiness as the draw.
As any Vanity Fair reader would know, the publication’s editor is Graydon Carter, a major New York figure in his own right. He’s also a restaurateur himself, but the point of notoriety relevant to the condemnation of Trump Grill is his longstanding feud with Donald Trump.
After the Grill was slammed, President-elect Trump tweeted that Vanity Fair's numbers were "way down," signaling trouble for Carter. "No talent, will be out," Trump said.