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JoeDoe Lives Up to Its Name

An Eatery That Relies on Personality

By PAUL ADAMS
September 24, 2008

When a restaurant bears the name of its chef, be it ill-fated Grayz (whose founding namesake, Gray Kunz, departed this month) or Gordon Ramsay's tepid Gordon Ramsay, the name on the sign often seems like a substitute for -- rather than a token of -- any personality within. JoeDoe is an unlovely name for a restaurant, but it feels like a true expression of its chef, Joe Dobias.

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