just discovered chowhound myself - and this guy is gold! thanks 김치 ! posted by killy willy at 11:45 AM on August 3, 2005
This is awesome. The pics from the French Laundry make me glad I was too afraid to eat there. (tiny tiny tiny food) posted by ColdChef at 11:47 AM on August 3, 2005
Comprehensive is one word to describe this post. posted by heavy metal ümlaut at 11:48 AM on August 3, 2005
Good initiative, piss-poor judgement.
But thanks for the index. posted by jsavimbi at 11:51 AM on August 3, 2005
The afternoon tea at the Beverly Hills Peninsula Hotel (#4) - what an absolutely gorgeous thing. I feel like I should go put on a dress just to look at the photographs. Such precious, beautiful food in these photographs. And thanks for indexing these, although clicking on the stars is fun too, as I like surprises. posted by iconomy at 11:53 AM on August 3, 2005
My advice is not to use st*rs, either in a post or a comment. posted by Rothko at 11:56 AM on August 3, 2005
moonbird writes"it's full of stars moderately upscale food boutiques."
Thanks for the compliments; mea culpa on the stars. I had a difficult time trying to organize the post since none of the reviews had ever been collected in one place that I could link to. In retrospect, I probably should have constructed the post as follows:
Do restaurant reviews leave out too many details for you to get a feel for a place? For the last year, a chowhound with the handle perceptor has been sharing beautiful pictorial restaurants reviews (mainly in L.A.), to thedelightofmany. His reviews cover a variety of places from very high end, to neighborhood ethnic places, to styrofoam-encased street food. [MI]
I'm officially intimidated by this food. I live in Boston and the best we can come up with is clam chowder and a boiled lobster. posted by jsavimbi at 12:30 PM on August 3, 2005
CafeSpot is also a nice place to find good local restaurants. It doesn't have descriptive reviews, but allows you to search by location, rating, tags, etc. Of course you can contribute too. posted by arete at 12:31 PM on August 3, 2005
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Please stop filling the post with crap. posted by Mid at 1:26 PM on August 3, 2005
I apologize for further derailing the thread but I've found Lush's post on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities to be a very elegant way of providing multiple links in various categories. posted by junesix at 1:27 PM on August 3, 2005
You fuckers can't make me translate that. posted by graventy at 1:37 PM on August 3, 2005
Yay! I never knew that there were grill-your-own okonomiyaki and Korean BBQ places in this country. They were always my favorites in Japan, but I figured America was too sue happy to let people cook their own food in a restaurant (undercooked meat, burns, etc). If only I could find something like this on the east coast... posted by Alison at 1:56 PM on August 3, 2005
So why put all of the stars in the FPP when you went ahead and listed the same information (in a much, much, much more informative way) within the thread?
I mean you went ahead and made a pretty good post into something we could bitch about. If there is anything Mefites love to do is snipe at each other, we really don't need the extra ammunition.
Oh and those of you wasting even morebandwidthandtime. Just stop it, it's childish and lame. posted by oddman at 2:20 PM on August 3, 2005
Maybe I'm thick, but I haven't seen anything that actually constitutes a review. Are people really getting this excited over average quality pictures and a few uninteresting comments underneath?
To me, this would be like going to a website which purported to feature film reviews, only to discover amateurish screenshots with indifferent summaries of the plot.
In other words, why the excitement? posted by Chasuk at 2:20 PM on August 3, 2005
Interesting, if you only want to look at the food. How does it taste? I could stand to read a little more text with the review.
I have some NYC restaurant reviews with photos on my site (click on "restaurants" on the right side), and the list is ever growing. When I can, I take pictures. I will try to add more pictures to future reviews as soon as my camera makes it back from the shop! posted by nyc stories at 4:02 PM on August 3, 2005
Anyone have any good resturaunt review blogs out there? posted by redbeard at 4:39 PM on August 3, 2005
One of the restaurants he reviewed, Gaja Okonomiyaki, looked very interesting to me. Hmmmm, Okonomiyaki.... I've never heard of the stuff. I googled to see if I could find it in NYC. It's available here. Has anyone tried it? posted by MotherTucker at 12:01 PM on August 4, 2005
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