Trend Alert: Vietnamese Cuisine, Epic Menus, and Man Food

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This past week, my colleagues from Village Voice Media had a good showing the Association of Food Journalism awards, which I attended in Charleston. Around tables at dinner and during speaker sessions, topics such as how soon to review a restaurant after it has opened, the role of critics in the rise of social media, and whether fine dining is dead fueled many a discussion.

Though he was not in attendance, Sam Sifton of The New York Times weighed in on one topic this week: Fine dining is not in fact dead, with his final review focused on the most epic and epically expensive restaurant in New York. 

The collective of newspapers in this group focuses elsewhere. Here's a rundown of what writers have eaten and written about, from the round-up of 13 papers across the country.

Number of reviews on 
Asian cuisine: 7
Vietnamese restaurants in particular: 3
Neighborhood bar/grill/urban diners/gastropub/cafes: 5
Wildcard: Greek

Price range per item
$7 to $30: 6 reviews
$4 to $15: 7 reviews

After the jump, five trends and the most popular words of the week:

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