Craig LaBan
As a restaurant critic and columnist, I cover the Philadelphia region's culinary stars, from food carts to fine dining, and chronicle the evolution of a dining scene that helps define our identity, one plate at a time.
Before re-joining The Inquirer in its Food department nearly three decades ago, I was the restaurant critic for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, a correspondent in The Inquirer's Cherry Hill bureau, a reporter for the Princeton Packet, and worked as a freelance food journalist in Boston for Boston Magazine and several other publications.
I'm a graduate of the University of Michigan, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and La Varenne École de Cuisine in France. I grew up in Metro Detroit, but now consider myself a proud Philadelphian.
