2008 NYC Wine & Food Festival: Bloggers' lounge

Is the festival here to stay? What's the most anticipated fall opening? And what's this about Feedbag vs. The Feed?

At this weekend's NYC Wine & Food Festival, Eater.com hosted bloggers, chefs and food personalities at their pop-up Blogger Lounge in the Milk Studios loading dock.

As the surprisingly sweltering October weather threatened to roast us like a suckling pick, we caught up with some of our favorite bloggers (and a few chefs) and asked them for the latest news from the front lines of online food journalism (and even got a few to pull a random question out of our Mixing Bowl of Doom).

These folks aren't known for a lack of spirited opinion, so it was no surprise they were willing to dish the dirt on the inaugural festival, talk smack about the NYC food scene and opine on Katie Lee Joel's surprise Burger Bash victory. —Jeremy Cesarec