Other Than That, How Was the Food?

I don't think his guy is going to get a good review:

A bar owner with a history of legal scrapes was charged Friday with hiring a man to beat up the food critic for a newspaper that has reported on the restaurateur's checkered past.

Timothy Rankins, 41, is accused of having associates assault Steve Barnes, the Albany Times Union's food writer, as he left a restaurant in suburban Guilderland with a friend in October 2008. Barnes, who occasionally wrote about Rankins' restaurants, had posted on the newspaper's website that he would be dining there that night.

Two men wearing button-down shirts and gloves set upon the men and began wordlessly throwing punches as the men left the restaurant around 9:30 p.m. Oct. 17, 2008.

"My face is swollen and bloody," Barnes wrote in an account on his blog the next day. "One of my knees, one elbow, one wrist and the back of my head are ailing. Josh (his friend, Joshua Carr) hurts in a variety of places."

Rankins was arraigned Friday in Albany County court on a misdemeanor assault charge that carries up to a year in jail if he's convicted.

Review: "The steak had a fine smoky aroma as I tasted it the second time when the guy punched me in the stomach."