Comments on: The Perceptor

The Perceptor

김치 — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:19:34 -0800

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 the delight of many. Here they are: (* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *) [MI]

By: 김치

김치 — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:20:38 -0800

I couldn't find a propoer index of perceptor's work, so I've indexed them by name.

By: signal

signal — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:26:23 -0800

Please don’t do that again. The thing with the *s, I mean. Thank you.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:33:22 -0800

good jesus god christ

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:35:41 -0800

So, the stars are just the same links as the More Inside list, right?

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:37:01 -0800

Nice post, 김치! I will definitely make use of this....

By: Satapher

Satapher — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:37:30 -0800

time for some good ol' fashioned hazing

By: mosch

mosch — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:37:55 -0800

This type of review is fantastic... I like it far more than the average chowhound or zagat review.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:40:03 -0800

my god, it's full of ~~stars~~ moderately upscale food boutiques.

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:40:08 -0800

I was going to bitch about the stars but then I saw you posted an actual index. Thanks.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:41:55 -0800

What the ****!?

By: killy willy

killy willy — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:45:46 -0800

just discovered chowhound myself - and this guy is gold! thanks 김치 !

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:47:09 -0800

This is awesome. The pics from the French Laundry make me glad I was too afraid to eat there. (tiny tiny tiny food)

By: heavy metal ümlaut

heavy metal ümlaut — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:48:01 -0800

Comprehensive is one word to describe this post.

By: jsavimbi

jsavimbi — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:51:50 -0800

Good initiative, piss-poor judgement. But thanks for the index.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:53:57 -0800

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.

By: Rothko

Rothko — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:56:19 -0800

My advice is not to use st*rs, either in a post or a comment.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:05:47 -0800

moonbird writes "it's full of ~~stars~~ moderately upscale food boutiques." Huh. I was actually impressed by the variety: from very high end, to neighborhood ethnic places, to styrofoam-encased street food.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:06:59 -0800

B*t R*thk*, st*rs *re s*perc**l!

By: Mid

Mid — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:17:47 -0800

This is a great post. I wish we had a chowhound like this working Chicago.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:22:31 -0800

[this is good] Now stop it.

By: 김치

김치 — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:25:26 -0800

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 the delight of many. His reviews cover a variety of places from very high end, to neighborhood ethnic places, to styrofoam-encased street food. [MI]

By: jsavimbi

jsavimbi — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:30:27 -0800

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.

By: arete

arete — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:31:07 -0800

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.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:43:36 -0800

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:51:02 -0800

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By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:03:55 -0800

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By: 김치

김치 — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:08:22 -0800

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By: Mid

Mid — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:26:36 -0800

Please stop filling the post with crap.

By: junesix

junesix — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:27:12 -0800

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.

By: graventy

graventy — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:37:47 -0800

You fuckers can't make me translate that.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:56:21 -0800

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...

By: oddman

oddman — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:20:37 -0800

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. Admission of guilt noted, much better form. Oh and those of you wasting even more bandwidth and time. Just stop it, it's childish and lame.

By: Chasuk

Chasuk — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:20:42 -0800

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?

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:46:56 -0800

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By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:52:49 -0800

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By: nyc stories

nyc stories — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:02:45 -0800

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!

By: redbeard

redbeard — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:39:10 -0800

Anyone have any good resturaunt review blogs out there?

By: peacay

peacay — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:08:29 -0800

redbeard you might find something of interest among this lot.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:55:04 -0800

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By: MotherTucker

MotherTucker — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:01:47 -0800

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?

By: mosch

mosch — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:47:31 -0800

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