So, here’s the deal:
We created The Best of Food to promote local restaurants and to help diners find “the best” place to go for whatever they were looking for, whether it be Italian food generally speaking, or great mussels specifically speaking (and we will get specific to that point at another time). Truth be told we were tired of websites getting away with promoting mediocre chains as the best that our great city had to offer. It was impossible to sit by and watch it continue and not try to counter it. While we have some of the country’s most amazing blogs, Foobooz, unbreaded, hollyeats, fries with that shake and meal ticket, (are they a blog? who cares, we love them), we felt a reliable, sincere search engine for restaurants was needed.
Note: These shout-outs are off the top of my head as a rush to deadline. This city has many terrific blogs that we plan to feature over the coming weeks, so please do not be insulted if I did not list your blog here and you happen to be so kind to have stumbled upon this rant!
Because we promote “the best,” you will not find “the worst” on our site, at least not from our point of view. We do not even wish to sell advertising to restaurants that do not care about what they are serving or how they are serving it. Yet, we still have bad meals and nowhere to funnel that negative experience. So, once a week, we will do that here, in the weekly rant. We will not “name names” as it is not our intention to trash anyone or harm anyone’s businesses, however, maybe we will get our point across or someone will learn something from it. If not, we can at least blow off some steam, and you may feel free to join in!
P.S. If you get really curious about where we’ve eaten, you can pick up clues by following us on twitter.
The Empty Restaurant
If your restaurant looks like this at Happy Hour, there is a really good chance there is a reason.
Could it be that when a patron enters your empty restaurant that they are not acknowledged for 5 minutes? Maybe it is because that although they are not being acknowledged there is a 2:1 ration of staff to patrons in the room and that is pretty shocking. Or perhaps it is because once the menu is opened the menu immediately yells at you – Buffalo Wings: hot, extra hot, mild, bbq
NO MIXING!!!!!!!!
Well, thankfully mixing won’t be a problem because upon ordering the wings the server announces that anything that is highlighted on the menu in the big blue boxes is not available because they are on a “theater menu.” So, even though there is no one in the entire place, they anticipate being too busy to cook wings? Really?
Things that make you go hmmmmm…..
I won’t even mention that the mussels tasted like the bottom of the ocean, opps too late…
Looks like that guy likes it ok…wow, can’t wait to check it out myself!
Looks like that guy likes it ok…wow, can’t wait to check it out myself!