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Toronto chef Matty Matheson: “We don’t want a 45-year-old food writer to understand what the fuck we’re doing”

By Caroline Youdan
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“First time I got a review, I was like, Œoh, you get reviews? Like I didn’t even fuckin’ understand that stuff...We don’t want a 45-year-old food writer to understand what the fuck we’re doing.”

Matty Matheson, the notoriously hard-partying (but recently reformed) chef and owner of Parts and Labour in Parkdale, speaking to the Chefs Feed Network about why he isn’t interested in the opinions of middle-aged restaurant reviewers. You can go here to watch the full three-minute interview.

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