Showing posts with label restaurant reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restaurant reviews. Show all posts
Thursday, July 18, 2019

LIVE TO EAT: Chef Edward Lee's thoughtful essay "Restaurant Reviewing Needs a Revamp."

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Marty Rosen points the way in a short post at Food & Dining Magazine , and Chef Lee takes it from there. Writing for Mark Bittman...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

LIVE TO EAT: "The restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews."

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This guy reminds me of me, at least back in the day before I mellowed. This is a must read. The restaurant owner who asked for 1-sta...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Pints&union garners an outstanding review in the Courier-Journal.

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Back in prehistoric times, through at least the dawn of the World Wide Web, these Courier-Journal reviews were disproportionately import...
Saturday, April 07, 2018

LIVE TO EAT: "7 steps to try before resorting to a bad review on Yelp."

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A satisfied customer (Catania 2016). While staying in Porto in February, we enjoyed a wonderful meal at a family-operated eatery called...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Gentrification and the art of the restaurant review.

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The review is worth it for the preface about gentrification. Just yesterday, I saw a comment elsewhere to this effect: "Working clas...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

A $700 meal in Paris: "This one will also leave me with memories. They are bleak and troubling. If I work hard, one day, with luck, I may be able to forget."

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From the article. Perhaps this review isn't quite up to the lofty timelessness of Pete Wells' immortal (and savage) take-down of...
Monday, May 09, 2016

Is this the same Guy Fieri who got history's worst (and funniest) restaurant review back in 2012?

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Now that the former News and Tribune editor is working for Louisville Business First , will it devote the bulk of its coverage to fluffi...
Friday, May 06, 2016

Gospel Bird scores praise in the CJ, then reveals a new restaurant/distillery idea for Main Street.

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Formerly the WE Studio, soon to become Concrete Jungle.  New Albany is Southern Indiana's Food District, and the week before Derby ...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

C-J critic ham-fistedly hammers Southern Indiana dining options.

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Random Fb image from The Exchange. There are a number of potential talking points here. Do traditional media reviewers matter any l...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Marty Rosen praises Big Four Burgers + Beer.

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I'm enthused that Matt (Irish Exit) McMahan's new establishment in Jeffersonville is doing well and garnering positive reviews. May...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

An excellent review of Louis Le Français by Robin Garr includes French language lessons.

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For my next amazing trick, I will convince Louis that there is such a thing as good beer from France; namely, Bieres de Garde. If I achie...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Rosen visits River City Winery and is quite pleased.

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The C-J's free-lancing food writer Marty Rosen likes River City Winery. The Confidential household does, too. The crab cakes aren’t ...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Red Room redux: Welcome to genocidal grammar and tyrannical misspelling.

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I never cease to be amused by the era of lunacy empowerment, and this sort of trolling seems to be happening with more frequency since la...
Friday, January 04, 2013

Excellent review of Feast BBQ at WFPL.

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Dana McMahan is a veteran Louisville foodie and writer, so this isn't your average Yelp screed in crayon. When it appeared on Facebook y...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

On being glad you're not Guy Fieri.

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Quite simply a masterpiece of rhetorical ire, question upon savage question, escalating not unlike the progression in Ravel's Boléro. Ju...
Friday, July 06, 2012

Robin Garr: "Let’s Say “Bonjour” To Louis Le Français."

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As an addendum, note this Facebook message about the Frenchman's Bastille Day plans: Louis says: Happy July 4th to everyone! We will...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

NA Exchange is given a stellar review in LEO.

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There's fine ink for NA Exchange in the past week's LEO . It's located just down Plaza Drive from the Public House, and is a wel...
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Gravity Head rest (?) day, and kudos for Chef Josh and his crew at BSB.

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There's been this little celebration going on called Gravity Head, and it tends to be intense. I don't want to miss a chance to than...