local or when visiting somewhere? just go off reviews on google? travelocity?

im always skeptical when i find an article about the best places to eat in a city. going to be in atlanta for a couple of days next week and when i search for places its overwhelming lol going to be a big group so i doubt ill get to try many places but still want to try something that is the best in atlanta or isnt found out west.

i always try to look up what a region or city is known for then go from there. will definitely prefer a local spot to a national chain. if the restaurant has multiple locations in a city thats fine.

Baltimore: https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/

Atlanta: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/

DC: https://www.washingtonian.com/

Philly: https://www.phillymag.com/

Also, Instagram. Hashtags are used pretty nicely to help curate a listing (if you will) of top foodie places in a city.

Edit: In Atlanta, try Poor Calvin's if you get the chance to.

https://www.poorcalvins.com/

calvins looks good. i think my sister in law already picked out a soul food place. ill keep it in mind.

Try to find a top ten list that is backed by a reputable magazine.

I may also break it down by the food.

Best Steak House

Best Seafood

Best Soul

Best Italian

could be none but im a skeptical person lol

It lets me know they are motivated to give people a good first impression

For me it’s mostly photos of the food on the website.

I do this anytime I've gone to a new job.

the bad thing is I have had some bad meals doing that.

overall though I love just going to new spots to give it a shot.

when i travel i try to do some research then go with maps once im actually there. if a spot came up during research and its close enough then it will get preference.

My wife and I are going to Mexico City and we already started to map out spot to hit up if we are close.

I'm excited because our airbnb is on top of a cafe, first time being above a dedicated placed to eat while traveling

Instagram is best when looking for high end food because people always take pictures of their food at fancy places.

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The only thing is... eater is curated so it doesn't review every restaurant... only the ones they deem worthy or whatever.

also cross compare those with google reviews



I read the menus people post as well so I have an idea what I want before I get there

So for San Antonio it’s the sa current
For Denver it’s the Westword
For Atlanta - https://creativeloafing.com/Food-and-Drink-Home

After that I plug the name into google maps

Google maps gives you quick star reviews and I check quantity more than quality
If it’s over 4.5 and has like 200-300+ that’s good enough for me

finding a spot with 4 great ratings and no actual review is worthless.

Yelp reviews are just not the wave for me
Weirdos giving 1 star reviews for places not being pet friendly

Sometimes from people who will even say how they always loved it and ate there all time, but after 1 bad experience(usually where the reviewer comes off as a high maintenance asshole), they’ll never go there again.

Poor yelp reviews usually just make me hate the people writing them and makes me glad I’m not in the service industry.

Folks giving one star reviews and then admitting they never even attended the school. Just didn’t get a call back in a timely fashion so they left 1 Star.

Most 1 Star reviews aren’t based on the food, it’s one bad waitress or not being seated in a timely fashion.

>Yelp reviews are just not the wave for me
>Weirdos giving 1 star reviews for places not being pet
>friendly


how many past reviews have they made? What were those like?

etc

I do it for speciality items
But not for eating out.

I should have added that I travel for work

so eating well and picking good places to eat is a must

R/SanFrancisco

R/NewOrleans

etc



can find a subreddit for damn near any city. With posts you can search (or create your own) with foodie suggestions


Ive had way better luck with this than Yelp actually

step your reddit game up

It’s not about political affiliation
It’s about experiences and tastes
And collectively the tastes and experiences and preferences of white males differ from mine by a lot.
I can’t name a non brew pub that I’ve walked into, had a good meal and time, and that the demographic was heavily white and male
So when I’m looking for reviews of places I like, I want them to come from the types of people I see at the places I enjoy
Which is why I personally start at the alternative weeklies because ... counter culture

I follow a food blogger or 2, and some choice sponsored ads pop up in my feed.

Find the strip and try to identify a place that seems like it's a long lasting institution.
In New Mexico weeks ago, I wound up at a place adjacent to the UNM campus.
Nonchalantly Tom Hanks happened to be in line when I walked in. Apparently Albuquerque has multiple production studios in the city.
Food was good and it set the theme for the rest of the food I ate while there, and I had a few more green-chilli topped foods after that meal. Unsolicited while sitting alone, all types of people were offering suggestions of where else to go, I don't know who they thought I was, but the over friendliness was odd.

Anyway, if in Albuquerque, try anything on the menu at Frontier.
www.frontierrestaurant.com

ive heard a lot of celebrities frequent new mexico but i never bumped into anyone. heard a friend of a friend ended up doing yardwork for jeff bezos a few months back lol

not sure why people were going up to you with recommendations but cool i think.

i forget that green chile isnt very common outside of new mexico and colorado.

road rage attached to nearly zero traffic.
I walked maybe 5 miles one day, up route 66, away from the campus and drivers were enraged over nothing, with each other.
I also had an egg thrown at me (the missed) but it was my cue to get an Uber back to my hotel. I saw they had been throwing eggs at anyone walking on the street thinking back at all the broken eggs I glanced at previously without consideration.
All of the road rage cars were exactly like versions of vehicles Jesse Pinkman drove.

ive heard so much bad stuff about that place

Instagram. It's always indirect, tho. I don't go on there looking for food but I follow or stalk people and I'll end up discovering new spots based on their geo tags and food pics.

I either know somebody or somebody that knows somebody at just about any new spot that opens at this point from as diverse locations as three hours away in KC to across the country in SF and NYC. And obviously in the hometown I just know right away what's going on months before it happens and decide way before something is open if I'll go immediately or give it a few months.


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