About John Batchelor

John Batchelor began writing restaurant reviews for The Greensboro Record, an afternoon daily newspaper, in July 1981.  After the Record merged with The Greensboro Daily News, creating The News and Record, his column moved to the morning paper. Over a thousand of his articles have been published. Beginning in August 2010, he also reviewed restaurants for the Winston-Salem Journal.  His columns therefore circulated to a readership of approximately 175,000. He stopped writing for the Journal in 2012 and for TNR in 2019. He now writes for Yes! Weekly newspaper. He also writes occasional travel articles for newspapers and magazines. In August 2024, he unretired (again) and became a real estate broker with KMAHomes at Keller Williams One. See more about his real estate role at https://www.kmahomes.com/. Contact him at john.e.batchelor@gmail.com.