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Drmies removed both pictures along with the paragraph listing some of the dishes that have come up in the reviews with edit summary "this is way over the top: promotional". Could you elaborate on how it's "way over the top"? As a criticism, the edit summary seems, err, way over the top. :P
Something that very quickly becomes clear in the sources is that the notability of this restaurant is due to its unusual vegetarian preparations/presentations. To the point that the quality of the dish itself is typically secondary, and all other aspects of the restaurant scarcely mentioned. How is it more encyclopedic to, rather than include specific evocative examples that multiple reviewers bring up, include a more general summary/gloss? How is it more encyclopedic to remove images of the things the sources talk about (e.g. the portobello mousse is described in many early reviews)?
FWIW I have no connection to the restaurant, apart from having eaten there a couple times (and neither time have I had the portobello mousse, because it's an affront to all that is good and decent in this world). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 06:54, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"With the new location, the menu expanded, a bar was added, and Cohen began a policy of no tipping, instead adding 20% surcharge to every check and paying employees a fair living wage."are just simply not relevant to an encyclopedic summary of the restaurant as a topic and have a strong odor of boosterism, intentional or not. Likewise, listing the address of a restaurant is a plain violation of WP:NOTDIRECTORY/WP:NOTADVERTISING, as far as I can tell, since it's only likely use would be for customers. However, on the core issue you and Drmies are presently batting back and forth (the photos) I have a mixed opinion. I see what Drmies is getting at and I think it's a slippery slope to begin previewing menu items from specific restraunts, but to the extent we allow restraunts as notable topics, it may be the single most relevant thing we can present via photograph, as you note. However, bear in mind that there may be a second issue which has not yet seemed to enter discussion; I'm not sure that is permissible under our local policies, the WMF's, or copyright and other intellectual property law generally for us to be hosting images which represent another party's product, without the express issuance of a license for that purpose. That's an issue you may want to raise at Commons, if you are not already certain about the answer, because there are really two possible levels policy/legal considerations here, and I expect we may be on the wrong side of one of them by hosting these images, seemingly taken from the Flickr page of a third party. Snow let's rap 23:12, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Many of the sources are primary in nature and not truly independent of the subject
most of those that are secondary and independent are blurbs arising from the food pages of local newspapers and magazines (even if those sources are the like of New York Magazine or the local edition of the Times)
comments like "With the new location, the menu expanded, a bar was added, and Cohen began a policy of no tipping, instead adding 20% surcharge to every check and paying employees a fair living wage." are just simply not relevant to an encyclopedic summary of the restaurant as a topic and have a strong odor of boosterism, intentional or not
listing the address of a restaurant is a plain violation of WP:NOTDIRECTORY
copyright law generally for us to be hosting images which represent another party's product