These VIPs aren’t afraid of getting blacklisted.
Best friends Maeghan Radice, 26, and Audrey Jongens, 26, are behind the TikTok account @TheVIPList — which has notched nearly half one million followers because of their brash, sometimes controversial reviews of primarily Recent York restaurants. Some are so fiery, they’ve gotten the duo banned by reservation booking services.
They deemed a Mavericks Montauk chicken dish a “hate crime” and claimed the Hamptons steakhouse visit gave them “PTSD.” Rezdora, a Michelin-starred Italian spot in Flatiron, was “so unbelievably underwhelming I used to be borderline confused.”
Trendy Casa Tua on the Upper East Side earned the title of “the worst Italian restaurant we’ve been to all yr.”
“We’re not going to be censored,” Radice told The Post. “We’re just really opinionated.”
And followers like it. That Casa Tua review, posted in December, has been viewed 142,000 times because the duo reveal they were served a $500 tin of caviar with a food market label.
“If I wanted this I might have gone to Citarella myself and paid half the worth,” Radice scoffs within the review. “A minimum of have the courtesy to modify the label for those who’re attempting to play me like that.”
“The burrata was good, but what within the Ozempic is that this portion size?” Jongens says.
The eggplant parm entrée was “ant sized” and the branzino the “fishiest” they’ve ever had. 4 dishes they ordered allegedly never arrived. (The Post has reached out to the restaurant).
“The Hugo Spritzes were the one saving grace of the night,” they said, before the camera pans to a $1,365 bill.
They nabbed the hard-to-get reservation through a friend who had a membership with Insider NYC, the reservation and events platform that costs $1,500 monthly.
“The concierge dropped our friend [who booked the reservation] as a client due to us,” Radice claimed to The Post. “They asked us to delete the video. We said we will’t do it once it’s live.”
Radice and Jongens’ notoriety precedes them. Lindsi Shine, CEO and founding father of Insider NYC, told The Post that the now-banned former member was warned to alert the corporate before bringing The VIP List girls to any of their restaurant partners,
“They [The VIP List] don’t understand the negative impact,” Shine told The Post of their effect on a restaurant’s bottom line. “Possibly that evening wasn’t [Casa Tua’s] best evening. There’s a approach to do it [give criticism] with class and kindness.”
For the reason that review, Radice said, Casa Tua modified caviar labels, but hasn’t taken them up on their offer of a follow-up review.
“I don’t know in the event that they’d welcome them back,” a source near the restaurant told The Post.
However it’s not all the time a bloodbath. The VIP List praised the Carlyle, saying, “The escargot was a few of the perfect I’ve ever had.”
And the pair, who makes money through sponsored content from brands, raved in regards to the West Village Japanese-style speakeasy Sip & Guzzle, praising it because the “only viral restaurant that tastes higher than it looks” — with Radice calling the $18 mochi French fry “one the perfect things I’ve ever put in my mouth.”
“The true tea is that the perfect chefs who’re confident of their products want us to return try to give our honest opinions,” she told The Post. “We’re friends with Jean Georges [Vongerichten], we’re friends with a few of the top chefs in Recent York they usually want us at their places because they need the feedback.”
Still, Mavericks in Montauk fought back last summer as a VIP List video lambasting the steakhouse racked up greater than 730,000 views — with Radice and Jongens calling it “the worst $2,000 meal we’ve ever had” and claiming that they waited 2.5 hours for an appetizer.
“They were pissed in regards to the video. They tried to spin the story saying we asked for a free meal,” Radice said of Mavericks quote to The Post last summer. “We will not be the style of food bloggers to be asking for a free meal. We’re often called the food bloggers that pay.
“They bought all of the watery apps to a different table and still kept them on the bill. Steak tartare that was floating in water, they usually still charged us full price for it.”
Mavericks declined to comment.
But one apparent fan was so angered by the review that she began “posting 50 stories a day insulting us, threatening us with a knife on her stories. Crazy stuff,” Jongens claimed.
The duo say they’re all the time open to giving a roasted restaurant a second probability for a review.
But Radice added, “No ones ever said yes to that.”
These VIPs aren’t afraid of getting blacklisted.
Best friends Maeghan Radice, 26, and Audrey Jongens, 26, are behind the TikTok account @TheVIPList — which has notched nearly half one million followers because of their brash, sometimes controversial reviews of primarily Recent York restaurants. Some are so fiery, they’ve gotten the duo banned by reservation booking services.
They deemed a Mavericks Montauk chicken dish a “hate crime” and claimed the Hamptons steakhouse visit gave them “PTSD.” Rezdora, a Michelin-starred Italian spot in Flatiron, was “so unbelievably underwhelming I used to be borderline confused.”
Trendy Casa Tua on the Upper East Side earned the title of “the worst Italian restaurant we’ve been to all yr.”
“We’re not going to be censored,” Radice told The Post. “We’re just really opinionated.”
And followers like it. That Casa Tua review, posted in December, has been viewed 142,000 times because the duo reveal they were served a $500 tin of caviar with a food market label.
“If I wanted this I might have gone to Citarella myself and paid half the worth,” Radice scoffs within the review. “A minimum of have the courtesy to modify the label for those who’re attempting to play me like that.”
“The burrata was good, but what within the Ozempic is that this portion size?” Jongens says.
The eggplant parm entrée was “ant sized” and the branzino the “fishiest” they’ve ever had. 4 dishes they ordered allegedly never arrived. (The Post has reached out to the restaurant).
“The Hugo Spritzes were the one saving grace of the night,” they said, before the camera pans to a $1,365 bill.
They nabbed the hard-to-get reservation through a friend who had a membership with Insider NYC, the reservation and events platform that costs $1,500 monthly.
“The concierge dropped our friend [who booked the reservation] as a client due to us,” Radice claimed to The Post. “They asked us to delete the video. We said we will’t do it once it’s live.”
Radice and Jongens’ notoriety precedes them. Lindsi Shine, CEO and founding father of Insider NYC, told The Post that the now-banned former member was warned to alert the corporate before bringing The VIP List girls to any of their restaurant partners,
“They [The VIP List] don’t understand the negative impact,” Shine told The Post of their effect on a restaurant’s bottom line. “Possibly that evening wasn’t [Casa Tua’s] best evening. There’s a approach to do it [give criticism] with class and kindness.”
For the reason that review, Radice said, Casa Tua modified caviar labels, but hasn’t taken them up on their offer of a follow-up review.
“I don’t know in the event that they’d welcome them back,” a source near the restaurant told The Post.
However it’s not all the time a bloodbath. The VIP List praised the Carlyle, saying, “The escargot was a few of the perfect I’ve ever had.”
And the pair, who makes money through sponsored content from brands, raved in regards to the West Village Japanese-style speakeasy Sip & Guzzle, praising it because the “only viral restaurant that tastes higher than it looks” — with Radice calling the $18 mochi French fry “one the perfect things I’ve ever put in my mouth.”
“The true tea is that the perfect chefs who’re confident of their products want us to return try to give our honest opinions,” she told The Post. “We’re friends with Jean Georges [Vongerichten], we’re friends with a few of the top chefs in Recent York they usually want us at their places because they need the feedback.”
Still, Mavericks in Montauk fought back last summer as a VIP List video lambasting the steakhouse racked up greater than 730,000 views — with Radice and Jongens calling it “the worst $2,000 meal we’ve ever had” and claiming that they waited 2.5 hours for an appetizer.
“They were pissed in regards to the video. They tried to spin the story saying we asked for a free meal,” Radice said of Mavericks quote to The Post last summer. “We will not be the style of food bloggers to be asking for a free meal. We’re often called the food bloggers that pay.
“They bought all of the watery apps to a different table and still kept them on the bill. Steak tartare that was floating in water, they usually still charged us full price for it.”
Mavericks declined to comment.
But one apparent fan was so angered by the review that she began “posting 50 stories a day insulting us, threatening us with a knife on her stories. Crazy stuff,” Jongens claimed.
The duo say they’re all the time open to giving a roasted restaurant a second probability for a review.
But Radice added, “No ones ever said yes to that.”
