Eater quits Toronto
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— Eater Toronto (@EaterToronto) September 19, 2014
Eater raised a few eyebrows last fall when it marked the debut of its new Toronto arm by publishing a weirdly tone-deaf list of the city’s 38 “essential” restaurants. Now, less than a year later, the American mega-site is abandoning its Toronto and Vancouver regional blogs (Montreal appears to be safe, at least for now). The windup doesn’t come as a huge surprise: Eater had trouble holding onto a Toronto-based editor, cycling through three in about eight months (the first, Carolyn Grisold, left about a week before the site’s official launch party), and its real estate–minded sister site, Curbed Toronto, stopped publishing two weeks ago. The Canadian retreat comes on the heels of a major redesign for Eater, which was recently acquired by U.S. digital media company Vox.
Had no idea that Eater had a Toronto blog. Which, I suppose, is indicative of some of the problems they were facing.
No loss, as far as I’m concerned. Wasn’t a terribly active site to begin with and they also seemed a step behind what’s happening here – almost like they had no one with actual, current knowledge of the local restaurant scene managing the site.
Pretty disappointing – you’d think with all this talk of the “manhattinization” of Toronto (for better or worse), Toronto would have been even more in the eye of our southern neighbours
I don’t think we’re the problem. Blame their business plan.
toronto not a world class city
Eater Montreal is a joke, how many times can its writer rehash its ridiculous Heat Map and other nonsensical tripe?