Meet Our Restaurant Editors and Critics
The writers, editors, and researchers behind Northside Restaurant's coverage of dining rooms, menus, and the neighborhoods that shape them.
Dining Editor
Our dining desk sets the framework for how we compare restaurants across price tiers, neighborhoods, and occasions. Garrett leads that work, and his fingerprints are on the rubrics our critics carry into every dining room.
Garrett Miller
Dining Editor
Garrett Miller brings clear structure to restaurant comparison. He uses consistent reference points to help readers understand value, consistency, access, and the difference between a memorable meal and a reliable recommendation.
Senior Restaurant Critic
A senior critic does more than rate a tasting menu. She decides which rooms deserve a second visit, which trends are worth the column inches, and how a neighborhood's dining identity shifts from one season to the next.
Nora Whitcomb
Senior Restaurant Critic
Nora Whitcomb reports on restaurants through the lens of how guests actually choose, read, and remember a meal. Her work combines menu literacy, neighborhood context, and documented dining analysis.
Restaurant Critic and Features Writer
Some of the most useful restaurant writing tracks a single meal from the moment a reader hears about a place to the moment the check lands. That narrative approach gives our features their shape.
Julianne Sterling
Restaurant Critic and Features Writer
Julianne Sterling writes case-based criticism that follows a meal from expectation to check presentation. His work connects real dining-room evidence with practical guidance for Northside readers.
Restaurant Guides Editor
The guides desk asks a quieter question: when a reader has forty minutes and an unfamiliar neighborhood, what do they actually need? Marcus shapes our Restaurant Guides around that practical test.
Marcus Thorne
Restaurant Guides Editor
Marcus Thorne edits restaurant guides with a calm, practical eye for how people actually choose where to eat. He focuses on process, repeatability, and useful tradeoffs.
Menu Researcher
Menus are documents. They organize attention, hide and reveal price, and quietly steer what a table orders. Mei-Ling reads them that way, and our Menus and Dishes coverage reflects that close attention.
Mei-Ling Chen
Menu Researcher
Mei-Ling Chen studies menus as structured documents. His reporting helps readers decode price, portion language, dish categories, and what a menu makes easy or difficult to decide.
Have a tip, a question about a review, or a restaurant we should put on the calendar? Reach the desk through our Contact page. Editorial assignments are reviewed weekly, and we note the dates of our visits in every published piece.