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. Contact him at
john.e.batchelor@gmail.com.