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Column: What does ‘The Bear’ get wrong about its big Chicago Tribune restaurant review? From the real food critic

CHICAGO — “The Bear” is back with a storyline about a surprisingly big restaurant review. It gets weird when the fictional world of The Bear restaurant bleeds into my real world as a food critic. “Their fate hangs in the balance pending a review in the Chicago Tribune,” writes my fellow Tribune critic Nina Metz in her mixed three-star review of Season 3. So what does “The Bear” series get ...
Ayo Edebiri, left, and Jeremy Allen White in Season 3 of “The Bear.”

CHICAGO — “The Bear” is back with a storyline about a surprisingly big restaurant review.

It gets weird when the fictional world of The Bear restaurant bleeds into my real world as a food critic.

“Their fate hangs in the balance pending a review in the Chicago Tribune,” writes my fellow Tribune critic Nina Metz in her mixed three-star review of Season 3.

So what does “The Bear” series get right and wrong about how I would review the Bear restaurant as the real Chicago Tribune food critic?

Spoiler alert! The following includes details from Seasons 1 to 3 of the show. If you want to protect your viewing experience, go watch, then come back.

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