>restaurant featured on Foodinsider, Eator, Bon appetit, etc.>food looks amazing>Google review is 4.3
>>21574967do you really expect every single customer to give it a perfect score
>>21574973even mediorce restaurant around me jave 4.6 scores on Google reviews
>>21574967the internet is an awful place to look for reviews. if i go somewhere and its fine, i don't say anything. but if i go somewhere and stub my toe, i cry about it endlessly in the review. because of that effect, reviews are mostly worthless, usually a venue for some butthurt idiot to attempt to harm some innocent guys business
>>21575001>the internet is an awful place to look for reviewswhere the fuck else am I gonna find them, the newspaper?
>>21574967>all the negative reviews are from flyover tourists complaining about the bathroom, music, parking or literally anything but the actual food
>>21575011or dumbass roasties and boomers being completely unreasonable and devoid of any smidgen of self-awareness
>>21575001How else do you find new, good places? Or do you just eat there?
>>21575010>>21575037You go out amd try things for yourself and explore the world outside of the internet for a change. It can be fun. Find all sorts of stuff,and if you can figure out how to make a friend, some cool memories with them
>>21575010I worked in a few very popular restaurants over the course of 12 years until covid, some were very good, others less so. Whenever I went out and talked to people, I'd ask them where they ate, if they liked it and what they had. 99% of the answers were "I went to x", "I liked it/hated it" and "I had lots aka too much/not enough". And I'd ask "yes, but what did you have [for starters, main, dessert]?". The answer remained the same: "lots/too much" or "not enough". If I kept pushing they'd tell me what they had, they'd say if it was well prepared or not, and they'd make it very (extremely) clear what their main objection was: quantity.The absolute majority of people simply don't care about good food. They just want more than they can eat. Online reviews are worthless. If you want to eat more than you can handle, eat at home.
>>215749674.3 is very good. I don't trust anything that's 4.8 or higher because that's getting into paid review territory and people will complain no matter how good the place is so a lack of complaints is suspicious.
>>21575166>If you want to eat more than you can handle, eat at homefuck you bitch. that’s industry standard in this country, for “middle brow” and below restaurants at least (the vast majority of people’s dining experience)
>>21575037>go to place I already like and know>ask the people that work there where they would recommend I go eat >go to new spot to see if it’s good>repeat
>>21575166I've been to some mom and pop restaurants who wanted 18 dollars for a sandwich and then it came out and it was half a sandwich. I don't care if it made me jizz in my panties there comes a point where the quantity is inarguable. Most humans go to a restaurant when they are hungry and they are paying an establishment to make the hunger go away.
