people that YELP are scumbags

steve shasta is a yelper

Yelp is OK, but Consumer Reports is more scholarly.

chaki,

sorry dude, i will try to find better information about pawnshops for you.

steve shasta

haw!

you arnt a scumbag steve. your yelps are like punk rock.

has anyone ever accused ss of being pedantic

only times he gets sort of pedantic is when discussing japanese food and denim pants at which point most of the people who would accuse him of being pedantic TLDR and move on?

like when nabisco talks about the huxtables or gabbneb is discussing road trip tour routes across america maybe

Did you see the thread on the noise board about how to romanize yamasucka augh?

YELP like little dogs or YELP like college girls who haven't seen each other for 6 months?

yelp.com you moran

It's not the yelping itself, it's the method of yelping

People who one-star yelp about something just because they hate the people that frequent there or just think the retail idea is like bogus man are the lowest on the scumpole.

they might as well fuck off to that new site where people talk shit about their neighbors. (not ilx)

wtf is yelp when it's at home?

yelp blows

i'm going to yelp this thread

Can someone summarise what yelp is? Use a series of gifs if it's easier.

Actually, don't bother, I just looked.

Man, fuck web 2.0!

Yelp is still the best place to meet cougars.

i've yelped.

Is Yelp outside of SF now?

You know what's annoying? Having people at a business plead with you to say something nice on yelp. "But that would require me to actually log in there!"

SF is not the world

it's rapidly growing in NYC.

SF is not the world

This cannot be stated often enough

it's big in l.a.

I guess there are Yelps for other cities.

Anyway there are a lot of jerks on Yelp in SF.

i've yelped, but find most of the people on there obnoxious.
just like the internet as a whole! and the real world!

www.burritophile.com > www.yelp.com

Yelp has been in Chicago for a while now, but it's only within the last few months that it routinely shows up among the top 5 Google results of any restaurant or retail establishment.

Yeah every time I watch Check Please! Bay Area I am reminded of how many assholes there are. It makes me very glad I have a job where I don't deal with the general public.

Who are these people who spend all their free time going to restaurants they have mediocre opinions of?

Also I def think you can meet girls/cougars on yelp

I am really curious to see Bay Area version of Check Please! What is the host like?

the yelp message boards are awful

"I am really curious to see Bay Area version of Check Please! What is the host like?"

Annoying. You can download free video Podcasts if you want.

I find the nyc restaurant/bar reviews useful but you have to filter out all the people who give one-star write-ups to williamsburg bars and restaurants that just say "full of hipsters!!#%@$!"

even with all that type of junk there seems to be more "real people" honest reviews and less shills than on places like citysearch

n.b. I've never reviewed anything just read em

^

i love the obviously planted and/or spam reviews on freew1ll1amsburg

Almost all the reviews of restaurants here are submitted by travelling Californiaites!

Review of Target - San Leandro, CA by Angel M.

06/22/2007

I really love target but food avenue suck there is a girl her name is ashlee or some like that she had a really but costumer service i went today and i say can i have a large ice cream and she is like you want 1 or 2 scoops i say large she keep telling me 1 or 2 and i say the sing say large or small i dont know how many scoops the large had but i wana large. Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say let me have a large ice cream and a soda i never say 2 icecream and she is like no you order 2 she say that few time. but anyway this is not the frist time that she give us actitude but i love target anyway.

fucking hipsters!!!

food ave suck
Angel speaks the truth

rolling teenpop consumer reports

holy illiteracy svendman

dying

http://gesterling.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/screenhunter_794.jpg

I was the first to review my local favorite mexican place and now its so crowded I can only go for breakfast.

Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say

Honey 1 BBQ is like the only legit north side barbecue spot and the reviews of it on yelp are infuriating

This place totally sucks. I have eatten BBQ Everywhere in this country and this is seriously as bad as Orlando FL suburb mall BBQ.

I went with a friend, who granted is a chef. We both ordered pulled-pork sandwiches. We were the only people in this entire place and it took at least 35 minutes to get our food. A child, seriously like 12 years old brought it out. Why is my pulled pork wrapped with fries on top in a piece of wax paper? Why is it about 5 inches wide? For that matter, why is it just cooked pork, with a squirt of BBQ sauce on top?

Gross.

These two TINY sandwiches and soda cost almost 25 bucks?!?

Do yourself a favor and walk seriously, 3 blocks down to Fat Willy's which is awesome. Or even head or to Calvin's a few blocks over on Armitage.

there are 3 five-star reviews for Ippudo Ramen in NYC. It hasn't opened yet.

ha, from a YELP review of a gigantic local bookstore written by an ilxor!:

Some weird things about JB:
1. The (men's) bathroom. The urinals aren't private at all. I used to get the creeps there when I was younger.
2. They put Jeff Buckley in the folk section.
3. I stole a dungeons and dragons book from there once. I think they need better security.

OTM!

I'm doing a BBQ tour of Chicago right now. So far we've done Fat Willy's (excellent), Smoque (also excellent), Merle's in Evanston (good), and Honey 1 (so-so.) Honey 1 is at the bottom of the pack because, unlike pretty much every other place on here, it didn't really leave us blown away. It was good, but not great 'cue. We really liked the family running the place, though. They were really friendly and helpful. The place seemed to be doing well too. Their dining room was pretty full at 8:00 on a Wednesday night.

lol @ putting merles in evanston above honey 1

A whole bunch of this stuff is people either propping their own organisations, or anono-dissing competing organisations, isn't it?

On Yelp the absolute worst, most rip-offy mechanic in the Twin Cities is listed as the best.

I guess it's under Minneapolis, whatever

i dont know how many scoops the large had but i wana large

"1. The (men's) bathroom. The urinals aren't private at all. I used to get the creeps there when I was younger."

im not sure what this is talking about, but has anyone else been locked up for a good 10-15 seconds when trying to piss in one of those fucking troughs they have at baseball stadiums?

deej, how do you rate Hecky's?

i love heckys but its also a personal thing, he was huge in the community everyone knows him here. his sauce is fantastic, i always keep a jar, but hes not doing 'authentic'-style bbq and in the grand scheme heckys is near the top of mid-tier bbq joints

oh and im referring to evanston heckys btw, the heckys near cabrini is terrible and not actually run by hecky, some dude just licensed the name and logo

Yeah, I assumed as much. I had some good cornbread from the Evanston Hecky's once.

yeah its great there too, my friend did his website pro bono so i get free bbq when we stop in sometimes

anyway this is not the frist time that she give us actitude but i love target anyway

Isn't giving every over opinionated schlomo the right to write about everything the ILX way??

she had a really but costumer service

Citysearch is full of the 10 grand stroller insane nyc mommies and Evil Gays

Can't Truss It

Isn't giving every over opinionated schlomo the right to write about everything the ILX way??

-- The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:13 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

harder to zing

I find the nyc restaurant/bar reviews useful but you have to filter out all the people who give one-star write-ups to williamsburg bars and restaurants that just say "full of hipsters!!#%@$!"

even with all that type of junk there seems to be more "real people" honest reviews and less shills than on places like citysearch

-- dmr, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:33

^^^^^^ this is also true of austin

Fine the yelp reviews of Honey 1 can suck, that will keep too many people out of there so it doesn't get ruined. Calvin's and Fat Willy's BLOW.

Lupita's Pupuseria
Category: Mexican
Neighborhood: East Oakland

if your looking for a Mexican place to eat and talk this is one of the best place to do is also always clean and the people Mis paisanas always nice don't be freak to go in i know from the out side and the neighborhood is not that great but is really good good food the prices are from 6 to 10 dolares for a plate. but carefully if you go you have to spend more then 15 dollars to use your credit card. waitress are great good costumer service they have mexican coca cola en botella too

Sites like Yelp will never ever replace having actual friends who know things for recommendations.

I'm starting to think English maybe isn't Angel M's first language.

Oakland public schools kind of suck.

My impression is the quality of Yelp contributions on the WC is greater than that on the East.

It makes me think of erstwhile minor jam band yEP!

* every fucking annoying 10000-review east asian girl reminding you that she knows what real (korean/japanese/chinese) food is like and this place (measures up|does not measure up|is ok) in every fucking asian place ever *

still, better than fat jewish dudes who claim to know what real asian food is like, no?

one reason i dont yelp is because if i did i would just end up rating every italian restaurant and pizza place in LA as one star and start all my reviews with "I'm from New Jersey, so I know what real Italian food is."

still, better than fat jewish dudes who claim to know what real asian food is like, no?

-- dan selzer, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:01 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

More likely to have grown up eating poor people ethnic food instead of hanging out with their rich college educated parents in Cherry Hill

* every fucking annoying 10000-review east asian girl reminding you that she knows what real (korean/japanese/chinese) food is like and this place (measures up|does not measure up|is ok) in every fucking asian place ever *

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:34 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^this

That's about half of the Asian restaurant reviews in Seattle Yelp.

I fear what Vancouver Yelp would be like.

"i grew up in u.s. i should know what a real hamburger tastes like sorry canadians but a&w sucks lol [1 star]"

one reason i dont yelp is because if i did i would just end up rating every italian restaurant and pizza place in LA as one star and start all my reviews with "I'm from New Jersey, so I know what real Italian food is."

olive garden

I looked at the Yelp for DC and it was terrible and useless and full of flawed, miserable human beings who have chosen to live in this atrocious wasteland of injustice, fraud and sin, much like myself

so basically chaki otm

but in my case I think it has more to do with the locale

do u yelp?

yelp smells like a weird pyramid scheme and everyone on there sounds like easy marks for shit like landmark forum.

hahahahahaha

actually, my mechanic offered me a 10% discount on service in exchange for a ***** yelp review

he is a good mechanic tho

I wonder if I'd get any bites if I posted on CL asking for Yelp payola....

http://www.rottenneighbor.com/

the nu yelp

Shasta is the mascot of the University of Houston athletics teams, the Houston Cougars. Shasta is a female cougar. While previously a live cougar, Shasta is now a costumed mascot.

LOVE A COUGAR: Yelp's sequel "Cougar Appreciation Night" is tonight at the Good Luck Bar. Help one Yelper answer these pressing questions: "Will the baby cougars stage a takeover and demand recognition from the men of Yelp? Will the public drunkenness factor of this event reach such epic proportions that Yelpers end up banned from the Good Luck Bar? Will any cougar-age women actually show up to this one?"

the good luck bar sucks too

I chak missi :-(

What happened to chaki? Did he get banned?

he left angrily

Oh. So he'll be back then.

he's still in our hearts

I had a vision of another post there, but no it's gone.

wow! it is

temp banning myself from "missing chaki" conversations

i have used yelp to pick things from a menu before \(°_o)/

btw chicagoans hit up lao sze chuan asap if you haven't already

Useful (1) Cool (1)

i like dragon court as far as chinatown restaurants go

i don't make it down there enough

Forget it, gbx, it's Chinatown.

I dont know how many scoops the large had but i wana large.

Hi Jon,

I'm writing to let you know about our decision to remove your review of CBGB Shop. Your review was flagged by the Yelp community, and our Customer Service team has determined that it falls outside our review guidelines: http://www.yelp.com/faq#great_review, specifically relevance to the listed business.

We review every situation with detail and care and take the removal of reviews very seriously.

Regards,
Edgar
Yelp User Support
San Francisco, California

Removed Review:
I LOVE HOT TOPIC!!! i'm from the UK, and we don't have them over here, i went into a couple in the states, and could have spent a FORTUNE!! teehee....but then i am huge kermit the frog fan, and they have all sorts in there! YEY!! Its nice that they put one right by the food court! anyway...i just thought i'd share that with you!

ref:00D3vCN.50045TnU9:ref

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maybe it wasn't really hot topic ;]

Also I def think you can meet girls/cougars on yelp

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:28 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

A friend of mine has been in a 1.5-year relationship with a yelper 15 years older than him. So, true.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/rotdbullshit.jpg

i guess you'll have to open the pic in another window to see why this review sucks

Photo of Chao W.

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Chao W.

Jersey City, NJ
2 star rating
1/2/2009

If you are Asian you will like this place. You will find that its like a 80 percent asian crowd. Its beautiful but the wait to get in is terrible EVEN FOR PROMOTERS i am use to skipping the line and MODELS SKIPPING the LINE but here none of that shit lol, i have had one night 27 models come out in which we had a table with bottles even amongst Grey Goose every single female wanted to ditch Hiro and go to Tenjune so that speaks volumes and that was my last night there. Drinks are watered down if you are a comp which means a free admission (you know if a promoter told you U will be in free) then once you get to the door and they try to give you a reduced ticket stand up for yourself and say " hold on I dont pay for clubs, I party at every club for free" I am sure they will throw you a ticket after that lol and ummmmm the security is terrible and GHETTO But beautiful place

Natalie T.

Bronx, NY
2 star rating
12/2/2008

Okay, Last Saturday was my first (and last) night at Hiro. Let's take it from the top. Me and 4 of my girls went to Hiro around 1am and there wasn't much of a line. Either way, we were getting a bottle, so we didn't have to wait. They ushered us to a table right away. Sounds good so far, right?

To start off, the music sucked. The DJ played great songs, but didn't play more than a verse or he would scratch all over it. I find it hard to enjoy a party where you go from Beyonce to Maroon 5 to Kanye West to friggin Taylor Swift in less than two minutes.

The crowd was blah. Mostly the bridge and tunnel folk (no offense) or the real villagey type (again, no offense). I was ready to go halfway through the bottle and won't be back.

Yelp is still the best place to meet cougars.

― Mr. Goodman

Bottle service club people are like space aliens to me.

natural history museum exhibits.

haha, i played there once. crazy expensive, we had to wait around awhile before our set and left to get beer at a bodega.

xp

this thread title bothers me btw

should be people WHO yelp etc

this dude i was friends with in high school posted this page-long rant on facebook yesterday about how he's been passed over for YELP ELITE three years in a row. the rant detailed all the work he's done on yelp and all the reviews he's written and then he listed about all the stuff he's done to make his blog post come up high in google searches in hopes that yelp will find it and reconsider adding him to YELP ELITE ... wtf :(

can you still smoke in Hiro? that's all i want Yelp to tell me

I read some of the review of my favorite stores, and boy, some people really want their hands held when they go shopping.

some yelper is getting sued in san francisco

link please.
hope it's not shasta.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133466-38.html

Is it really shocking to people that when you open up the world for review you're gonna find lots of assholes willing to yell about their awful unsatisfying lives as viewed through the prism of discrete consumer experiences?

lawsuits are threatened all the time. basically freedom of speech vs. defamation. every suit that i've heard of got thrown out.

background: 2 buds of mine started this site about 5 years ago.

Norberg vs Nordskog.

background: I hate chiropractors right now.

tbh i use menupages.com

Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

Local business owners say Yelp offers to hide negative customer reviews of their businesses on its web site ... for a price.
By Kathleen Richards
February 18, 2009

The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy.

"Hi, this is Mike from Yelp," the voice would say. "You've had three hundred visitors to your site this month. You've had a really good response. But you have a few bad ones at the top. I could do something about those."

This wasn't your average sales pitch. At least, not the kind that John, an East Bay restaurateur, was used to. He was familiar with Yelp.com, the popular San Francisco-based web site in which any person can write a review about nearly any business. John's restaurant has more than one hundred reviews, and averages a healthy 3.5-star rating. But when John asked Mike what he could do about his bad reviews, he recalls the sales rep responding: "We can move them. Well, for $299 a month." John couldn't believe what the guy was offering. It seemed wrong.

In fact, something seemed shady about the state of his restaurant's negative reviews. "When you do get a call from Yelp, and you go to the site, it looks like they have been moved," John said. "You don't know if they happen to be at the top legitimately or if the rep moved them to the top. You don't even know if this is someone who legitimately doesn't like your restaurant. ... Almost all the time when they call you, the bad ones will be at the top."

That article is in the East Bay Express.

That article is in the East Bay Express.

Are they commies or have some agenda? Seriously, I don't know if that matters.

On the other hand, Yelp is consistently lame - don't need a newspaper to tell me that.

the yelp scene is mad creepy and "entitled"

Wow, that's truly creepy and morally reprehensible on the part of Yelp. There's definitely reasonable grounds to assume Yelp creates bad reviews on its own, since it seems to think hiding bad reviews is a very profitable thing to do.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes.

"Are they commies or have some agenda?"

Nah just the usual New Voice Media bullshit.

Some more articles going backwards a bit...
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2008/11/is_yelp_extorting_san_fran_bus.php
http://sf.eater.com/archives/2008/09/19/yelp_wanted_9.php

there was a news story on this featured on fox 11 in l.a. last tuesday night, i think?

And more...
http://la.eater.com/archives/2008/08/19/yelp_wanted_dinos_pizza_victim.php
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus11-2009feb11,0,7767842,full.column
http://cbs5.com/wrapper_consumer/seenon/yelp.business.complaints.2.820867.html
http://cbs5.com/wrapper_consumer/seenon/Yelp.Internet.ratings.2.787400.html

chaki otm

this is so fucked

can a mod change this thread title to peope WHO yelp are scumbags?

people who are vegetarian and go to a (delicious, cheap, family-run Peruvian-style) chicken place and neg-review it for not catering to their diets are scumbags

a friend of mine was talking about how one of her friends turned into a hardcore yelp addict and just hangs out with other yelp people now. it does sound a little bit like a cult.

can a mod change this thread title to "people WHAT yelp are scumbags?"

Can a mod please change this thread title to, "WHAT, yelp scumbags are people?"

a couple of the yelp reviews for the place i work are the equivalent of someone complaining about not being able to order sushi at an italian restaurant

If Yelp is indeed asking for money to erase negative reviews, and Google "Do No Evil" is partnered with Yelp, and the allegations prove to be true, will Google in turn yank their partnership with Yelp?

Is Yelp actually erasing negative reviews? I kinda skimmed all the links, but it seemed more like Yelp is selling good review placement, something that Google most certainly does.

google does not sell search result placement.

Of course they do. I used to help buy it for the giant corporation I used to work for.

do you mean ads or sponsored listings?

Google used to have a special "boxed" ad atop search results, paid and placed. I get the feeling Yelp at least claims they're doing something similar.

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/6008/picture2m.png

right, i was referring to the actual results though. google has always been very good, much better than any other search engine i think, about clearly demarcating paid ads and actual results.

You can make a case for Google clearly demarcating paid content from search results, but Yelp can probably make a very similar case, at least if their model is basically what's depicted above (which may not be the case, for sure). In other words, Google isn't going to kettle Yelp's pot based on the aforementioned evidences.

how much do they pay for good reviews?

Yelp has contacted me NUMEROUS times asking for money, claiming they can "really help the business" with their listing placement, but it's some absurd amount of money they want. Fuck you Salvador @ Yelp, stop bothering me at work.

libcrypt, maybe you should do a little more than scan the links that have been posted...? i am not trying to be rude but i'm sincerely confused as to how even skimming the links would give you the result that you are coming up with here.

you know, people pay good money to google to get their results higher up in a search. they most coitainly sell search placements. big business, man.

(this coming from my former corporate days)

ugh. that's not really how it works, burt, but whatever!

(this coming from my current corporate days)

Well, not exactly, they separate the results a little. keyword bidding or whatever.

seo maneuverings are not really similar to the issues at hand being thrown around about yelp, i wish this topic hadn't been brought up with that ridiculous "google do no evil" thing! learning yelp's partnering with google now really makes it extremely, extremely unsurprising that they're now engaging in leg-breaking tactics and shitty, godawful customer service. everything they f'ing touch!

libcrypt, maybe you should do a little more than scan the links that have been posted...?

Feel free to make corrections as you find appropriate, schef.

i mentioned it upthread a couple of times but the whole cultish aspect of yelp is extremely creepy

seo, my old nemesis.

Next thing, you'll be saying that the whole notion of "cougaring" is crepey.

Can someone explain what's cultish about Yelp? I've never really used it, but it seems hard to believe that cultish behavior could form around rating local businesses?

Next you guys will tell me there's a hopstop cult.

I should prob have checked yelp before we used that real estate broker. It might have saved me a month and a lot of mishegas.

yeah librcypt the thing about those links is that no one (well, few people) is questioning the practice of sponsored results or similar well-known practices. it's that yelp is aggressively phoning local businesses and the ones that refuse to pay or complain are suddenly seeing an increase in negative reviews + several establishments stating that positive reviews are being removed until they agree to pay the monthly fee to "sponsor." it's quite possible that these are just busybody business owners banding together to make yelp look bad too, but they all seem to be well-reviewed establishments (3.5 stars or higher averages) so i feel like that's a lot less likely than their stories being true.

i admit that i've never cared for yelp, tho i use it as a search tool! too much of what was said upthread, "complaining how they can't order sushi in an italian restaurant."

most people use it as just a review site, but there's a very definite community that is vv serious about yelp and getting freebies because they are "yelpers" and who basically try to get other people into it. it's maybe more pyramid schemey than cultish but it's probably a little of both.

and i think most people who have reviewed items for a site that has some iffy qualities would just shrug their shoulders, but people who are hardcore into yelp basically act like scientologists when confronted with aspects of the site that are a little "off".

Yelp isn't cultish, at least apart from the weird cougar cult that's associated with it, but it is full of annoying attention whores, insofar as which makes Yelp no different than YouTube or Pitchfork or whatever. (xp)

Is this true? I'd love to see some forum discussions by Yelp cultists.

yeah what the hell is "yelp elite" and why do these ppl get freebies? that's just like, ok, why do you get a prize for needing your hand held the most? but i've never actually met a person like this...? that is lol that they really exist!

i think they mostly just hang out with each other, my friend who went to a yelp "elite" event said he had an okay time but it was totally strange and he'll never do it again.

that sounds so amazing. get him to write a story.

i feel like that's a commonality with a lot of big not-quite-message-board not-quite-social-network "community" sites actually...

Is this true? I'd love to see some forum discussions by Yelp cultists.

http://www.yelp.com/talk/sf/category/Site-Questions-and-Updates

schef, I think that the strongarm-via-negative-reviews thing, while it may be the case, has no substantive proof behind it. There are some folks unhappy that they happened to see negative reviews pop up, but how many folks approached by Yelp didn't? The other side of the coin, "pay-for-positive-placement", isn't substantively different from Google, at least how Google did it a few years ago.

justine a. says:

Hi Everyone =D

Like many people, I was curious on how to become a yelp elite. My problem is, when I type "Yelp Elite" into the search box, it brings me a bunch of conversations about yelp elites but no direct link to how to become a yelp elite.

While on search, I found the website direct link: http://www.yelp.com/elite

Hope you find it useful on your mission. Happy Yelping =D

(I'm a hospitality major and we had a discussion in class about yelp elites and I was curious on how to really become one. There are rumors that you need 300+ friends, x amount of reviews, etc. So I wanted to find out how to actually do it. Also, it would be nice to place on my resume yelp elite =D especially being a hospitality major and maybe some day being a concierge or travel agent.)

I think I may be wrong about this Yelp-not-a-cult thing.

Yeah... I had no idea about this dark underbelly side of Yelp. I always thought it was just a good place to get restaurant reviews :/

I don't know why I just put a side-ways ambiguously feeling smiley there. I blame all those forum messages I just read.

I had no idea that there were hospitality majors.

That's a special Yelp-major.

schef, I think that the strongarm-via-negative-reviews thing, while it may be the case, has no substantive proof behind it. There are some folks unhappy that they happened to see negative reviews pop up, but how many folks approached by Yelp didn't? The other side of the coin, "pay-for-positive-placement", isn't substantively different from Google, at least how Google did it a few years ago.

― ----> (libcrypt), Tuesday, February 24, 2009

ok but it's not just negative reviews mysteriously popping up left and right but the positive reviews disappearing that is a skeezy issue here -- i mean it's pretty difficult to prove those negative reviews aren't just asshole flacks for other restaurants etc just showing up to badmouth other businesses too! and quite frankly seeing the ppl who just yelp regularly on the ny site with things like "i can't believe this bbq restaurant would not serve me seitan -- 0 stars" it could be idiots who've just joined posting to every single place they've ever felt slighted by to up their review stats.

whatever, i mean i think the majority of human beings take yelp reviews with about as much OMG RESPECT as one would approach, say, amazon reviews so i don't think it'll ultimately hurt anyone but it is really uncomfortable imo. but i mean in my experience every business product google has absorbed recently has turned into a shitshow full of incompetence so you know not a surprise really. there isn't anything anyone can do about it but it makes me even less likely to patronize yelp for more information about some restaurant that i've read about in a more "reputable" source first. themoreyouknow.jpg

this new cult info is hilarious tho!!

sum that up in like, two sentences.

yelp sux. a lot.

yelp sux! but lol cults ppl r weird

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schef yr otm with the comparison to amazon reviews, but they also have the charming personal touch of youtube comments

also, the immediate response snap-judgment factor of... well, youtube comments

Yeah... I had no idea about this dark underbelly side of Yelp. I always thought it was just a good place to get restaurant reviews :/

― Mordy, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:08 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i just use it to find restaurants nearby

haha just saw that rottenneighbor thing posted upthread

spent about 2 minutes looking around and decided I probably wasn't gonna find anything better than this

okay re the cult shit, i wrote a handful of reviews on the l.a. yelp page awhile back and this yelp rep kept writing me over and over again, and these are the messages that remained in my inbox (i wrote reviews using the "face is everything" guide to the internet):

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I writing you mainly because I have this kind of awesome new job for a company you may have heard of. It's called Yelp. I have only had this job for two weeks. But it's a nice one. And my job is essentially to make sure the best writers/people are the ones who are active and happy and all that jazz.

So yeah. Basically this is just a note to say: you are one of the best writers in LA right now. I am happy you are writing. Please keep doing so. But if you choose to come out from the shadows, it would be cool to actually meet you at a happy hour or something! Bring a friend, bring your girlfriend (or boyfriend, if you are a lady, or a boy who likes boys) or just bring yourself...but they are generally fun.

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I just read one of your reviews that would have been perfect for the Review of the Day, but there are a lot of things that go into the ROTD picks, and its some weird algorithm that is sometimes full of shit, but I'm pretty sure that one of the factors is having a real photo (don't tell anyone that info came from me. But yeah.) So great writers like yourself will never find themselves on the front page.

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I wanted to let you know that you have been nominated for Elite status! I would love to pass on the nomination to HQ for approval, but one of the requirements is that you use your real first name and a pic. It'd be cool to put some actual elite yelpers in the Elite squad. Plus, you get a hoodie! Ha. No, but really. A HOODIE.

I don't get it...who was sending you those messages? where did you write your reviews originally?

The sentient YELP system was sending those messages.

i feel like that's a commonality with a lot of big not-quite-message-board not-quite-social-network "community" sites actually...

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:56 PM

FAP?

...

ps the real problem with protection rackets is they don't scale, though I guess being able to put all but your top local goons in a call center in Manila is "progress." yay internets!

Wow, those emails are frightening. "Haha. If you tell us your real name you'll get a free hoodie. Haha. Isn't that great? A hoodie. Just tell us your real name. Haha. Tell us your real name. I'm not fucking kidding. What's your real name?"

yeah it was really weird. i felt like i was being roped into something and after awhile i decided my gut feeling was right and i bailed.

I'd have bailed on the guy just for the typos in his corporate email. LURN TO SPEL YOU FULE.

okay is there a non-creepy, non-corrupt yelp-type-site out there? cause the basic idea behind the site isn't horrible

That is a pretty weird thing going on with omar...

A friend of mine started the site just over 5 years ago and I helped him out writing reviews (I think I have written like 50 reviews a year).

I don't think the site is much different than ILX imo. There are some serious weirdos who you would never want to be in the same zip code with and then there are some pretty cool people too.

I have never got a hoodie though, not that I would wear it. I don't go to the parties either. I treat it as a handy restaurant review site that you can filter people's reviews who you think are knowledgable or share the same tastes as you.

Oh and as Alex in SF was referring to about the East Bay Express... it's a pretty horrible stab at journalism... you can usually count on no named sources which is what they center most of their provocative expose's around.

(i wrote reviews using the "face is everything" guide to the internet)

<3

^__^

oh and the rep who was writing me was writing me more often than that, i felt like she was trying to flirt with me in order to get me to put a photo up and become an "elite". i dunno, i think the site was started like any other but it's kinda turned a little lame. at least the l.a. version of the site. i'll still use it as a reference, natch.

yeah that's weird that they wouldn't respect your anonymity. if you want to PM the name of the person I can fwd to my bro as an FYI.

as a restaurant directory yelp is great but as a place to read reviews it mostly just makes me think that much higher of frank bruni

like im all for the democratization of publishing and criticism or whatever but for the most part there are good reasons why jonathan gold is winning pulitzers and getting published and mott_the_hoople420 is not

nah it's cool i don't want to get anyone into hot water. i think l.a. yelp in general seems to have a very O_O aspect that isn't specific to one person tbh, if the message boards are any indication. sf seems more sane (at least it seemed so when i was browsing around there before my recent trip).

SF Yelp is reasonably useful as long as you don't get into reading negative reviews (or maybe any reviews.) If you do that it just makes you think 50% of the population is crazy as fuck.

Yelp would be a lot more useful if reviews were multiple-choice.

okay is there a non-creepy, non-corrupt yelp-type-site out there? cause the basic idea behind the site isn't horrible

I don't believe a single site can really be helpful. At least for restaurants, I just Google on the name and quickly paw through the Yelp/CitySearch freaks and Chowhound snobs that show up in the results. Usually the best experiences I have are with places that have the most polarizing results ("ugh! terrible place with spicy food and no vegan menu" "brilliant dishs that you'll never find elsewhere - best meal of my life!")

Pizzeria Delfina strikes back.

http://www.7x7.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_w275/images/delfinatee.jpg

man i dont mean to keep bumping this thread but every time i go on yelp my blood pressure goes thru the roof, people in this world are SO STUPID, especially people who live in cities and have access to the internet, i would be willing to make everyone illiterate, forever, if it meant that no one ever wrote or read a yelp review ever again

btw i am now of the opinion that youtube comment discourse is of an order of magnitude more intelligent than yelp review discourse

fucking yelp

ohhhkay i guess i link this one again here too:

http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/85865391/fuck-it-it-sounds-like-its-worth-a-trip-to-brooklyn

NOTE: the tumblr author is ridiculing the yelper, not the person complaining so don't get all bitchy at my friend fyi. but seriously who the hell thinks you can call in a take out order and then just take a table!

and it makes me even more annoyed that there is like a THING, like, A YELP CLUB, and that its like a CULTURE, like people MAKE IT THEIR BUSINESS to write terrible reviews of restaurants on a website, that they dont even get paid for, and even worse, there is apparently AN AUDIENCE for these peoples bizarre ramblings, i am mad, and im not, im not going to take it anymore

and i am like a dude who makes it his business to not get annoyed at people being stupid, but

i'm beginning to think the best places can be easily discovered by sifting through all the three/three and a half star reviews on yelp

people who yelp are fucking CRAZY, even by the standards of loser internet geeks, because these losers happen to double as social climbing party dbags.

Take Sides: YELP & /b/

/b/ is actually sort of lolzy sometimes

/b/ for all time. rather read the demented msg posts of ppl who google for anime roboporn than about dbags eating

yelp reviews of the day are AMAZING

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I wanted to go to Grace during DineLA, despite the absence of a vegetarian prix fixe option. The woman on the phone assured me that the chef would accommodate my needs, so I was excited to try whatever he'd be whipping up for me. I mean, come on, that shit kinda made me feel special already.

For my appetizer, I had the roasted beet salad with grilled radicchio, arugula, goat cheese, pistachios, and onion marmalade, which was wonderful. The beets were sweet and delicate, and the onion marmalade and pistachios gave the salad an interesting and unique flavor. It's probably the second best beet salad I've ever had (after the one at the Little Door).

My second course was the grilled herbed tofu with confit tomatoes, balsamic eggplant, and preserved lemon spinach. I wasn't that impressed with the tofu and thought it could've been seasoned a bit more. The inside of the tofu tasted like it came straight out of the plastic tub. I did enjoy the vegetables though--especially the balsamic eggplant.

The best part of the meal, Sarah Beth and I agreed, was the sticky toffee pudding with bruleed bananas, toffee sauce, and hazelnut gelato. SWEET FUCKING JESUS was that shit amazing. It was so incredibly rich and dense! Now if only I could find a sugar daddy like that. (Huh? What do you mean Yelp is not a dating site?)

The service was also great and the atmosphere was inviting. I just hope they start offering more vegetarian dishes. Even if they don't, I can just order the sticky toffee pudding for my appetizer and two for my main course. Gimme gimme gimme.

service was awesome, and the wings and sliders were amazing. they have this sauce that came with the sliders that is about as addictive as crack. the recipe is a secret so hopefully they bottle that and sell it.. at swap meets.. using a dude with a headset. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. don't quote me on that.. it's still in development.

point: go here and try it.. everything was great and your night comes with a free head ramming into a door frame compliments of simon and soju.

they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery. they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery.they could call it "ruby table's crack sauce," and then use some exploitative imagery.

"Hi, I know you're a steak joint, but will you make me a special vegetarian meal?? I POST TO YELP KTHX."

The best part of the meal, Sarah Beth and I agreed x °°

My first trip to the Griddle:

Saturday morning, 11:15 AM. Quoted 15-20 minute wait. Not too shabby, and was right on the money.

My first reaction to the menu: "Holy crap, there are a lot of pancakes."

My first reaction to viewing the massive pancakes flying past my head and on to other tables: "Oh my Jesus."

My first decision: order Mom's French Toast. With a side of Nutella (since I was almost positive the Stuffed French Toast would be too much for lil' old chocoholic me...)

My first reaction to tasting the French Toast, with an ice cream scoop-size of butter on top: "Oh my Jesus."

My next decision will not be an easy one:
a) should I wait until I burned off the million calories to return to this breakfast haven?
b) should I order pancakes next time?
c) Or stick with the delish French Toast?
d) Or venture to the lunch side of the menu, which looks equally delicious as the breakfast?

It will take multiple, subsequent trips to determine the best course of action.

oh my jesus

btw the griddle sucks

have these people lived in basements their whole lives and have just discovered a) restuarants and b) the internets

yeah the griddle is horrible

It will take multiple, subsequent trips to determine the best course of action

e) kill self. take sarah beth with u

Cold winter night sitting in front of a warm fire, night cap in hand and feeling like a bazillion bucks.

I heart Shutters to death.

It's exactly what I want my dream house to look like. Soft, cozy,luxe and lovely. I'm not sure how they do it. But the place has immaculate lighting. Everyone looked so beautiful...trust me, it wasn't just the drinks talking.

This is surely not a place appropriate for a drunk "WOO HOO!!!" shouted from the top of your lungs. I also would not recommend ordering an Adios Mother F'R while you're at it. Don't get me wrong, I like both. But you know when in Rome....

"You know I was here for my last birthday," I said.
"Why are you whispering?" He whispered
"Am I?" Still whispering
"Ha Ha. yeah." He whispered
"Oh sorry. I just feel like I should be whispering." I whispered
"Why ? Is it a secret, Baby?" He whispered

"Uhm..I AIN'T YOUR BABY!" I shouted.

He didn't lose all cred. It's just that he used his "Baby" card waaaaay too early.

My glass of Pinot Noir (Kim Crawford) ALMOST slipped out of hand from shock. That would've been horrible, right?

that description of the griddle makes it sound like nannerpuss

Mexican Cuisine........Our first mother -daughter Saturday date for 2009!!
Camille picked up the place. As usual she relied on the reviews of our famous Yelpers and we were not disappointed!! With 4 and 5 stars you can't lose.

We took the # 7 train to 46th St/Bliss station and walked 5 minutes to reach this well reviewed (54times) restaurant. The corner place was small (26 seats) but tastefully decorated with a huge mirror on one side and a gigantic picture of a big apple on the other brick side wall. There are a couple of hanging lights .. very cozy. and simple. A small bar is in one corner. Each table has tea lights and they have one waiter. The place was half full or was it half empty when we arrived. but a couple of people
came in right after..

As soon as we were seated I ordered the Guacamole while browsing over the menu. It was delicious!! We also had the Ceviche De Veracruz...Diced Sea scallops with fresh Lime juice, diced Red Onion, tomatoes,Jalapenos ,Avocado,Cucumber,Cilantro and drenched in olive oil .Really good. We finished everything. Camille ordered their special Skirt Steak Mole with rice and beans and I had the Chuleta de Puerco -Grilled PorkChop with Caramelized onions, Yellow rice, Black beans and Tortillas.

The origin of these unique Mexican dishes is obscure, but it's probably a very good guess that they are of mestizo (Spanish-Amerindian) inspiration, created out of he need to make a filling meal from whatever could be afforded and kept on hand.... tortillas, beans, rice, noodles..
Like her music, Mexico's food is sometimes hot, sometimes sweet, sometimes a blending of both; but it is never dull.

Although we were both full....and had no more space for a Postre (dessert) we capped our meal with an order of Pastel de Tres Leches . A fitting finale for an exciting cuisine.

Camille won't stop talking about it on our way home...I have to shut her up. I stopped by this Mexican grocery and bought a bottle of Mole....I have to try it home...

Opps...something very important that I inadvertently missed.....The Prices are .......... VERY AFFORDABLE!!! For all that we had.....The bill came uip to $ 42.00 plus tip of course....

^^^ i want to know what makes that "review of the day" other than the fact that she spends the first 3rd sucking up to yelp

tastefully decorated with a huge mirror on one side and a gigantic picture of a big apple on the other brick side wall.

i'm going to start yelping my bus rides

lol @ that last one

For a special Yelp-world event (my 200th review AND my 30th Birthday!!!), my wife and I scored a great table in the quiet back section of Osteria Mozza to celebrate my entrance into that magical and scary realm - my 30s!

Started with cocktails at the bar - I had a gin/cucumber concoction which was refreshing, bold, balanced, perfect - my wife had a prosecco cocktail which was also lovely, accented by a lime zest twist meant to tease and tantalize your nose as you sip.

After a short and incredibly pleasant wait, we were shown to our table. and let me just tell you this place really knows the meaning of service. Professional, pleasant, courteous, personal.

We brought with us, to commemorate my birth year, a 1978 Cos d'Estournel, but ordered several other tastes and quartinos to accompany our meal. The Cos d'Estournel was a revelation - we'd had several 1978 wines over the weekend at my birthday party the night before but this was on a whole other level. It's amazing that a wine harvested 30 years ago is just coming to it's peak. Remarkable.

The food here can only truly be described as hedonistic. The mozzarella tasting menu accompanied by huge slabs of scrumptious garlic bruschetta is just other worldly good. As is the burrata with leeks and mustard bread crumbs.

The pasta dishes were also brilliant. I had the gnocchi pomodoro which was light, pillowy, beautiful. Perfectly sauced and draped with julienned basil and grated ricotta. My wife had the raviolo with brown butter and sage, which was again, the epitome of hedonism. Lush, rich, dense but not too much so.

The desserts were glorious. Bombolini, little pastries, with berries and vanilla gelato, was the perfect combination of textures, the olive oil cakes with a buttery gelato with a rosemary crisp was so odd and revelatory that it was almost as impossible to comprehend as it was to finish, but in the end both were accomplished. The moscato d'asti we had with our desserts was the perfect balance of honey, apricot, and confectioner's sugar - a lovely sparkler to end a lovely meal.

It was quite possibly the best meal I've ever had, and certainly a series of dishes and wines that I will never forget.

Like her music, Mexico's food is sometimes hot, sometimes sweet, sometimes a blending of both; but it is never dull.

yes. yes it fucking is. like every other culture on earth, "her" food can be dull. unless you consider refried beans to be the epitome of exitement or something.

ack

sigh@lyfe

^^^ i want to know what makes that "review of the day" other than the fact that she spends the first 3rd sucking up to yelp

Opps...something very important that you inadvertently missed.....The Piece is .......... BASICALLY RETARDED!!! For all that it sucks... The yelp is nearly 42.00% less terrible than most...

As my friends and I drove into Memphis we realized one thing: we knew nothing about Memphis...

So we found a parking spot and strolled around a bit. Saw this place and decided to pop in for a beer. A few hours later, we were definitely more excited to explore the city!

The Flying Saucer definitely exceeded our expectations. I couldn't believe the length of the beer list, especially how many they had on tap as well.

Our waitress was such a sweetheart and the plates on the wall were really cool as well. Awesome place to hang out, comfy seating and fantastic selection. I'll go back every time I'm in Memphis!

^^ Guess which sentence in that review remains accurate.

I may not be perfect, but my evening here certainly was. As usual, the BF and I spent days figuring out where to go for a delectable dinner. We yelped, used menupages, and made lists. Yes, we take our meals quite seriously. That said, at 7:30 Sunday evening, we still hadn't picked a place. With so many choices of great places to dine, sometimes it's so hard to narrow it down. So what better place to eat than a tapas bar?
We read that it was BYOB, so we brought a bottle of wine and headed over, taking a chance that there wouldn't be too long of a wait.
There wasn't - yay! We were seated promptly in the candle lit, intimate setting and our server appeared to uncork our wine bottle.
We asked (or I did) for recommendations, of course, and our waiter was happy to oblige. We ordered the asparagus with manchego cheese, sweet potato fries, bacon wrapped prawns, wood oven flat bread, and socca cakes. We both enjoyed the first three immensely, but I didn't care for the flat bread, and my date wasn't sure how to feel about the socca cakes. Churros with chocolate sauce for dessert rounded out the evening. All I can say is that I held myself back from drinking the divine warm chocolate sauce, or asking for it to go for a little fun later. What can I say, I was feeling a bit naughty as my date kept staring at my cleavage and the wine was lovely enough that we polished off the bottle. The atmosphere and food certainly was an aphrodisiac. Not to mention my cute companion.
I absolutely see a return visit in our future. A perfect one. And in true form, my man and I have already picked out the dishes we want to order. Yes, we are quite the pair...

The food here can only truly be described as hedonistic.

LOLz.

what % of yelp reviews are more about the yelper and the yelpers life and friends than about the actual subject of the review

all spreading warm chocolate sauce on each other's torsos

http://static.px.yelp.com/photo/_WGjJznIeYo9yYC-cV0ddQ/m

Wow! I'm not into beer that much. My son is. He ordered some kind of flight over America sampler and I had a dark beer he said would be good (he was right). Like Forest Gump I would say, " I might not be a smart man, but I know what beer is." There was a lot.

I enjoyed the atmosphere. Especially the beer Goddesses (waitresses)all dressed up in cute little plaid skirts. The two hundred beer club has plates on the ceiling and the walls with your name on them and the date when you have drank two hundred different beers. In my naivety I asked my son if that meant in one day!

I had a good time, sat on a sofa and watched the beer Goddesses. I even got a picture with three of them. Boy, ain't life great!

"mmm this garlic bruschetta is. . . hedonisitic"

*meow, meow*

Of course a Cat like me would like it here. From the oysters to the caviar, how can you go wrong? This posh kitty filled restaurant was a great hot spot for a Saturday night out with friends.

We ordered a lot, maybe too much food. The waiter kind of took over on that part, so be CAREFUL they will try to add extras to your meal. Corkage here is $25 (which is a little much) and their stemware isn't amazing, however some dishes are too good to pass up.

My favorites:
Oysters on the half shell
The Paddlefish caviar
And the tempura fried oysters, water spinach, jicama, sesame seeds and ponzu.
Oh! And great apple fritters with caramel and sea salt.
We also ordered this drink that was special that evening that tasted like an Orange Julius, so GOOD!

This kitty was satisfied. *Purr* ;)

I could not resist the free short stack deal at IHOP yesterday and the invitations form my Harlem friends to visit the only one in the city. The line was terrible because we choose to go for 'breakfast for dinner' but after 20 minutes in the cold and a lot of pressure on the hostess we made it in. The syrup choices were a plus although I believe them all to be primarily high fructose corn syrup and not tree sap. I did buck the trend and split and extra order of hash browns with the free pancakes. So worth it. They even occasionally tasted like potatoes. Really, it is hard to make hash browns spectacular; if they are too good they become home fries.
Best part: even at the end of a long shift our waiter was super sweet and excited to get a tip.
I would only recommend this place one day a year for the free short stack. No more. No less.

IT'S FUCKING IHOP DUDE

lmbo

dear god in heaven that cat one :((((((

half of yelp reviews are girls using the wink emoticon and talking about their juggs

ok the one i found the most hilarious yesterday

i just moved to the 'hood, and am ISO really great pizza without the trek & crowds at Grimaldi's-
i got take out from Sam's the other night. I had no idea what the guy on the phone was saying, but he sounded italian enough to give me something delish. we had the eggplant pizza & a salad, and i loved it!
i will definitely go there again, and maybe next time go for the parm!
the only thing is there is a sign on the door saying 'no pets or strollers'
no strollers? i don't have a baby, or a stroller... (editors note: she only mentions babies, right) but isn't that justweird?

http://static.px.yelp.com/photo/AwPhvg-l0fMPE6ukvFwhJg/m

http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=2BBPYdmHC1XOhWfBTm74kg

^^^ half of her profile is just shit for dogs

oh my jesus

This kitty was satisfied. *Purr* ;)

I hate working out and therefore never go to the gym.

But, once in a while, I feel fat and need to work off all the food and alcohol.

So, after a 5 week hiatus from torture class, I finally came back to Core Fusion last night. Trista is my fave instructor and she knows how to work you till you cry mercy.

The class was pretty full last night and there were actually 6 guys in there. Usually, its 95% women. But, hey, guys need to tone up too. At one point, after we did the killer arm workout, I really thought I was gonna pass out. Seriously, I was seeing stars.. OMG.

Well, 1 hr later, and feeling like a firmer cat, I was proud that I dragged my ass here. Torture or not, least I'm not as flabby as yesterday. :)

Classes are $20/session or $12 with student ID.

he sounded italian enough to give me something delish.

but after 20 minutes in the cold and a lot of pressure on the hostess

Don't even wanna know what this meant.

everything i am posting has been a "Review of the Day" just to be clear

It's a fun little hamburger place. Kinda like a Johnny Rockets vibe but more expensive. Our server was the happiest server in the world. I don't know what she was so happy about...but she had perma-grin on her face. You think she was drunk? Or high? It was in the middle of the afternoon~! I don't know but I guess a server with perma-grin is better than a server with a poopie frownie face.

They give you a sheet to mark what you want on your hamburger. I decided on the turkey burger. Very very dry. My lunch date had the mini cheeseburgers. Those were pretty tasty. The fries and onion rings were fresh and pretty good too.

Overall it was just okay. Not bad but I don't know if I'd come back unless I was in the neighborhood and someone else wanted to try it.

hahahaha a johnny rockets vibe!

I guess a server with perma-grin is better than a server with a poopie frownie face

^^ actually think she plagiarized this from gael green

It's hard being so Alpha all the time.

I know I make it look easy - what with my overwhelmingly pungent male pher-o-mones and my bo-honking machismo.

However, dear Yelpers, let me assure you that The Gar does power down once-in-a-Blue Moon, much like Michael Knight has to garage his high-performance, super-dope talking car K.I.T.T. every so often.

So in between episodes of vanquishing territorial nemeses and ravaging nubile nymphets, I like to tap into my more, shall we say, genteel side by tidying up my appearance and popping into Susina, which is oh-so-proper.

There I like to let the dulcet tones of Classical music dance into my ears and the sweet-sweet scent of potpourri waft into my nose, replacing thoughts of pummeling and smashing with ruminations of Les Beaux Artes and Haute Culture.

Instead of guzzling mead from goatskins and gnawing on barely cooked prey on the battlefields of Conquest, at Susina I can sip delicately-flavored Chamomile tea and sup on sumptuous panini and baked goods.

If you need respite from the madding crowd, lay down your arms and go to Susina. It'll give you the rest you require.

But, men, don't stay there too long and don't visit too often -- or you will develop a man-gina.

Four stars!

I'm embarrassed to be writing a reivew about Mc Donald's...but here goes.

The food is vomit worthy, as always. The main problem I have with Mc Donald's is the delivery time. The recalcitrant crack dealers they hire to deliver food either get lost after walking one block, or it apparently takes 2 hours to put 10 chicken mcnuggets in a carton. Either way, the service combined with the food is pretty atrocious. One delivery woman actually had the balls (or...well...whatever she has) to ask me for a bigger tip. I ended up giving her half of my laundry money. Bitch!

So why continue to order from and support such a wretched joke of a restauarant? Well, when I'm hungover, I don't want to move, and McDonald's food always seems like such a great idea after a night of drinking. After two hours of waiting for my food, occasionally I feel satisfied (thus, the two stars)....but the feeling is exceptionally rare.

Just stay away from Mc Donalds. Your body will love you so much more.

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2 people found it useful. Whew.

good example of yelp "inside baseball" kind of shit that no one really gives a shit about except for these loons

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Let me tell you what kind of a person I am. I am the kind of person that stops by this cafe on the way to her plastic surgeon's office. I'm the kind of person that gets easily addicted to things and doesn't mind paying $7 for a cup of coffee and an oatmeal cookie. I'm also the kind of person that puts salt on the oatmeal cookies before she eats them. So, when John M., Bradley S. and I made a date, I chose this location because of my addiction. It dictates how I lead my life and the places I go. So, even though I wasn't on the way to the surgeon's to become beautiful, just meeting up with a couple of Yelpers that bicker like Ike and Tina, this was the only place that would do.

We had a lovely time, which is the only thing that can happen when three self-centered people get together to talk about their opinions of other people. It's also fantastic when the Governor of the state walks in with his children and their pet rabbit. I guess when your dad is the boss of the entire state and a former Mr. Universe, you can walk around with your rodents in tow. Kinda pisses me off that I was born to a professional poker player and a baker.

We only had coffee, which comes in little pots, but they abandon it in front of you without any kind of sugar situation. That left Bradley and I fending for my Splenda and his copious, COPIOUS amounts of Sugar in the Raw. He has diabetes now, in case you're interested. Service was a bit slow, we had to flag our waitress down for refills, and I felt like we could've walked out the door at any time without paying our bill. We contemplated ordering food, but since everything in the place is over $16 and sounds organic, we skipped it.

I love this place, and if it were open past 7pm, it would be my hangout, that and if I could ever figure out how to pronounce the name.

i found that review useful

I dunno, that one is at least occasionally funny. And brusque, and a little less "OH DEARIE ME, I AM TOTALLY UNAWARE OF ANYONE ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE".

wtf mcdonalds delivers

But, men, don't stay there too long and don't visit too often -- or you will develop a man-gina.

Four stars!

^^^^ i usually give top ratings to places that take away my genitalia too.

^^^otm

"That is a mini kok".

Yup. That's what she said - after observing it intently.

"Really?" (That's all he could say!)

She (speaking slowly): "It's pronounced coke. It's a pastry made with cake-type cookies that are filled with pastry cream, dipped in syrup, and topped with a chocolate glaze."

"Think of it as a Greek cream puff", the server added helpfully as I tried to keep a straight face and ignore naughty thoughts.

You either have it or you don't. And, by that I mean the ability to pick a winner amongst a hundred contenders ("But I like the way you're thinking"). Having introduced me to the fine world of (rich) Greek pastries through Omonia Café, Athens Café, and many others, my friend, a bonafide Greek, was astounded when I returned the favor by introducing her to Artopolis, a delightful bakery that would compete favorably with the very best that Athens has to offer - at the very least in the breathtaking variety of their products.

Cookie Monster let me introduce you to Melomakarona: this spice (Cinnamon, Clove) cookie is a Christmas tradition in Greece and is dipped in a syrup of honey and lemon juice and sprinkled with walnuts. *Poof* Wait, where did it disappear?

The Cookie Monster is not the only one who would go Kookie in the middle of so many cookies! I've discovered the only way to figure out what you do and don't like is to pick a pound of assorted cookies. After padding up my waistline, I've realized that I also like Kourambiethes (rich, walnut shortbread) and Kouroulakia (mildly sweet, coffee dunking) cookies. Oh, and the dark chocolate Florentines.

Recession worries got you beat? Try their traditional Greek pastries and feel rich, without pulling off a Madoff. You don't need to create a ponzi scheme when you can indulge in different types of Kataifi (shredded phyllo dough, walnuts, honey - including one similar to Knafeh), Galaktoboureko (custard filled phyllo where the custard is baked with the pastry as opposed to a mille-feuille), and Baklava (regular, almond, pistachio, chocolate, fig, coconut). Oh, and did I tell you about the 12 different kinds of glaces? Sinful.

Twisted minds seeking to atone for their sins (say, for being on yelp Talk), or merely needing sustenance for another harrowing time (say, on yelp Talk) can feast on the braided Soureki - traditionally served to celebrate Easter (and similar to Challah).

There are a few tables to sit down and enjoy the pastries with illy coffee. You should not expect to overhear dialogues of Plato or the plays of Aristophanes in a mini-mall of America - and you don't. Even though a narration of 'The Clouds' might be extremely relevant in these times. Who needs 'Shopaholic' when one can learn from Socrates?

I remember a very few number of things about the night of my visit to Slaughtered Lamb. Here they are in blurry order:

2. Bartenders make the taps flow like the mighty Mississippi in this joint.

1. I met Khalib B for the first time the night I came here.

3. I found some guy named Terry with a skateboard on the street outside this place and taught him yoga sun salutations A and B. I only know this because krafty KB has a video on his phone now. (For the love of your halal cart - delete that shiz!)

5. KB carried me out of this place and when he put me down, I walked a 5.2 feet, tripped and fell flat on my face on the sidewalk, ripped a hole in my tights, proclaimed to everyone on the street that the incident branded me as a drunken ho-bag and hobbled to a curbside stoop to show him how I "skinned my knee" and then passed out on tha brotha.

I'm gonna miss ya KB, but I can't really remember why so I just removed one star.okbye.

^^^ this one is pretty good actually

OH MY GOD IN READING THE DOUCHEY REVIEWS OF THE DAY I JUST FOUND A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE SHE IS AN ELITE D:

loooool

i dunno if this is the same with nyc but i'm noticing that out of thousands of yelp people, the reviews of the day seem to be chosen from a pool of about 50 people

these reviews make me think that most of these ppl read 'classy' magazine reviews all their lives and now get to be those 'glamourous' people going to places and writing about it. like, it's no longer 'oh hey i went to this place, maybe i'll write a quick review' but more 'i'm going to this place specifically so i can write an unwitty, cringeworthy review that makes me sound like the douche i am'.

her review of boxcar lounge is in the rotd section -- both she and that establishment are dead to me now

"the reviews of the day seem to be chosen from a pool of about 50 people"

If you give them your real name, you could be one of those 50!

schef im pretty sure i no two ppl thatve posted reviews but a least yr friend isnt "Aryan D"

Totally not what I expected coming from a local Chinese restaurant.

I went here on a weekend with a few friends and it was pretty dead. The place was extremely clean and the furniture still looked new. I did find it odd upon entering that the statues were holding U.S. flags....

Anyways, the menu differentiated itself from others in that they made certain that their "health conscious" business model was portrayed. Great selection and I ended up getting the Sesame Chicken lunch special which came with soup and egg roll for $7. Service was great but I'd like to see how it is on a busy day.

The only suggestion I'd make is to have fortune cookies that give you better...fortunes.

I'll admit that this review is a bit biased because my friend's dad owns this restaurant and I told her I'd give it a try. It was voted "Best of LA" this year and even had the Yelp sticker on the outside which surprised me. I had high expectations and it met them.

I hate to see your unbiased review dude.

Before you read my review and why I gave this place only two stars, I'm putting up full disclosure that I am 1) a male, so I would never be shopping here for myself - 2) a 4XL-sized male with a not-XS girlfriend, so the store refuses to believe any fat people could be "Forever 21" - and 3) a person who knows NOTHING about fashion and thanks the Lord every day to remember to wear a shirt and pants and couldn't give a rat's ass whether or not they "match".

See that grain of salt over there? That's what you should take my advice with.

That out of the way, this store apparently thinks that 21-year-olds (that you should "Forever" aspire to be like) are loud, obnoxious, whorish, antisocial, devious and horrifically disorganized. Either that or it doesn't understand what people think when they see a store labeled "Forever 21".

I always thought that the music system in a store/business was meant to entice the patrons and lull them into a sense of comfort, like casinos do. This place throws that notion out the window, then records the sound of all that window-glass shattering, and loops it at about 100 decibels until you're clawing at your ears to rip them off and end your suffering. I'm not at all a "hep cat" (or however the youths are saying that nowadays), but I do have a wide range of music knowledge at my disposal. And that sounds like a garbage disposal.

If there's one thought that undoubtedly runs through the minds of these clerks 21 (and forever) times a day, it must be "This place would be great - if it weren't for the customers!" Let me tell you something, Forever 21 executives. The idea of being "forever 21" is supposed to appeal to PEOPLE OLDER THAN 21 because they wish they could be forever at that perfect age without growing old, like they are currently doing. So how in the name of all that is good and right in this world did you pick a target demographic who is 14-18 years old? These pubescent sticks of hormones wouldn't know 21 without the aid of a time machine - so how can allow them to strive to be Forever 21?

This store would be 30 times better if there were a bouncer at the door blocking women who couldn't present a valid I.D. - and it would be 300 times greater if it served alcohol. Something for the menfolk - other than the clothes themselves...

Whorish (adj.): a word to describe the clothing at Forever 21. Done.

We wandered the store for about 25 minutes in total and I was asked ONE TIME, "are you finding everything you need?" I was not, because what I needed was for the store to sell more than 2 items in the size XL, neither of which I had located. Unfortunately, before I could verbally get any of that out, the clerk had been distracted by something shiny and walked away. Perhaps her hearing had been permanently damaged by the "music" and thought she heard me say "yes", so she was free to leave.

As for the deviousness and disorganization, it's rampant. Every "sale" sign in the place has those words "and up" attached to them, so by the time I've found something almost passable to purchase (after digging through stacks of items not sorted by size or anything useful or located near any similar items), I find out it's twice the price of the other stuff. I'm fully aware that more material is needed to create an XL shirt than an XS - but people who can fit in an XS are too young to be shopping at this store. Or need to eat something, please!

I'm frankly waiting for the revolution to begin. The overweight are outnumbering the underweight, and all of these stores selling to the "pretty people" and offer nothing above a size L need to be driven out of business. Yes, there will always be a size S in a department store for you - that doesn't mean we should have a nationwide chain of stores that ONLY sell size S. And yes - I plan on posting this in every review I write of businesses who think that they don't have the obligation to offer clothing in sizes that are becoming more of the norm.

Of course, those other stores might have a title that doesn't show complete disregard for itself like "Forever 21" does. Then again, if a store were built around my 21st year eternally, it would sell sweatpants and Nacho Cheese Doritos. So grab that grain of salt, because this is the end of my rant:

I guess I'd have to recommend this store to whorish teens who long to be 21 years old - and suggest that anyone who has survived that year and knows of the horrors of vomit-stained carpets from binge drinking that should not be revisited forever avoid this place like the plague.

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http://www.yelp.com/biz/pedros-spanish-american-restaurant-brooklyn

there are two reviews bitching about how no one came and took their orders and how long it took to get waiter service in a joint that does not have waiters (and clearly says so in yelp's little summary up top)

search on the word "hipster" on a lot of these reviews and you'll see it's a worse strawman on yelp than it is on ilx.

"But after a few, we moved to the room with the DJ, and we couldn't stop dancing."

- from a yelp review of a place I go that doesn't have any DJs

i find myself looking at one-star reviews on yelp more than 5-star reviews, and if the 1-star person sounds like a douchebag, usually the place will be ok

^^^

yeah that is pretty much a truism.

yes - esp. reviews where the person talks about how much they spent/were going to spend at the place (works at all price levels).

one of the reviews of pedro's literally called the "waitress" retarded -- i mean, buddy, she's not the one who sat herself down on a bench outside a taco shack and then expected to have a waitress??

there was an article in my local (lol) alt-weekly abt how yelp manipulates the order of positive/negative reviews to try and sell advertising. tell them to screw and they'll put all the neg reviews of your establishment at the top. f dis service.

Maybe a retarded woman sat down beside her and tried to take her order.

i hate those bullshit reviews that are basically dialogues of what occurred at the restaurant, usually casting the server/manager/clerk as this incredibly irredeemable douchebag and the reviewer as this patient and rational customer. usually they read something like

ME: Do you have any steak?
WAITRESS (snooty voice): Sorry, this is a VEGAN restaurant.
ME: Uh, okay, just wondering.
WAITRESS (bitchy voice): I can make other recommendations.
ME (taken aback): Yeah, I guess.

I have a friend that is on yelp, and he mostly uses it to give low scores to places that close early or are not open during their listed hours. He also gave a 1 star review to the post office - one institution that is not going to give a rat's ass about yelp reviews.

that would explain a lot! such as my burning question, how the fuck did she get her order taken to begin with?

xpost yeah right? ppl who go into vegan places/steakhouses/burger shacks when they are not the person who would eat that should stfu forever -- how hard is it to NOT go to a vegan place or a steakhouse? i manage to avoid both very easily, all of the time.

xp call all destroyer: The East Bay Express or was there another alt-weekly yelp expose?

im a-ok with yelp giving reviews to hilarious stuff like post offices and bus stops and fire hydrants and schizophrenics

Yelp needs to implement a reviewer-quality ordering system for the reviews. Maybe color-coded too. Low-rated reviewers are at the bottom and have sickly vomit-colored borders on their reviews. High-rated reviewers get burrito-borders or something.

What were George W's yelp ratings like?

xp libcrypt: But who would be evaluating the quality - other yelp reviewers?

Maybe. Or maybe do it like Urbandictionary.com.

i dont think that would help anything, people are fucking retarded

We can always ditch this useless "democracy" thing and go back to reading reviews of restaurants written by people whose job it is to review restaurants.

sarahel it was in boston's weekly dig

food is the only area where i will put a decent amount of faith in a single critic over howling masses on the internet

This is a link to the East Bay Express yelp story

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/yelp_and_the_business_of_extortion_2_0/Content?oid=927491

and a follow up:

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/yelp_extortion_allegations_stack_up/Content?oid=946025

Of course, there are lots of comments!

We can always ditch this useless "democracy" thing and go back to reading reviews of restaurants written by people whose job it is to review restaurants.

much better way to go, imho

a good food critic is a hell of a thing

i hate those bullshit reviews that are basically dialogues of what occurred at the restaurant, usually casting the server/manager/clerk as this incredibly irredeemable douchebag and the reviewer as this patient and rational customer. usually they read something like

ME: Do you have any steak?
WAITRESS (snooty voice): Sorry, this is a VEGAN restaurant.
ME: Uh, okay, just wondering.
WAITRESS (bitchy voice): I can make other recommendations.
ME (taken aback): Yeah, I guess.

^ haha just found an actual one of these for a local place...

They actually SNEERED at me when I deigned to ask if they had milk to go with the coffee. Seriously, I get that you're a vegan, and that this is a vegan bakery, but there's no need to be mean.

there's this ex-coworker of mine who has a blog in which every single entry is in the exact same style as what i posted above, actually. like casting himself as the hero in his own life in mini-scripts like that. i think people who do this exact thing are the worst people around, basically.

there was a post on gawker today about some d-bag getting yelled at by hillary duff that was exactly that kind of story that made me irrationally mad, at, like, the internet

I really love target but food avenue suck there is a girl her name is ashlee or some like that she had a really but costumer service i went today and i say can i have a large ice cream and she is like you want 1 or 2 scoops i say large she keep telling me 1 or 2 and i say the sing say large or small i dont know how many scoops the large had but i wana large. Ok i also order a soda and the total was 5 dollars my boyfriend went to toll her what flavor and she is like and the other one im like i say let me have a large ice cream and a soda i never say 2 icecream and she is like no you order 2 she say that few time. but anyway this is not the frist time that she give us actitude but i love target anyway.

^^my favorite part of Finnegans Wake

good 2 see that joe is reviewing stuff on yelp

costumer service! Do want your clown mask to have a nose that makes a honking noise when you squeeze it or not?

lol i just read that gawker story, i'm on hillary duff's side tbh

They actually SNEERED at me when I deigned to ask if they had milk to go with the coffee. Seriously, I get that you're a vegan, and that this is a vegan bakery, but there's no need to be mean.

err I don't think "deigned" is the right word here...although if the OP really felt like they were deigning to ask them then I can see how a sneer in response would be appropriate.

Still more Yelp suspicions. This time in Santa Monica

An intriguing phone call came one day to Roll House Sushi last spring, sparking some interest in its owner about advertising opportunities on a business review Web site that was quickly growing in popularity.

"You have a lot of hits on your page and the reviews are great," restaurant owner Charlie Paratunya recalled hearing from a Yelp sales associate. "People love you."

The salesperson reportedly proceeded to ask if there was any interest in advertising opportunities, to which Paratunya responded that he would have to wait because his budget did not permit it, asking that Yelp check back later.

When the associate phoned again months later, Paratunya, after checking with his business partners, declined the offer, saying it wasn't the right time.

By then Paratunya had checked the Roll House Sushi page on Yelp several times, pleased with the number of reviews — about 20 — that had given him five out of a possible five stars. But after the second conversation with the Yelp sales associate, Paratunya said he began noticing that the positive reviews were getting deleted and the negative ones were getting pushed to the top.

people who work at yelp are scumbags

http://static.px.yelp.com/photo/cMZKsku52xN9yYNNd4ueMQ/l

Oh SNAP!
No wonder Snoop D O Double Gizzle loves this place!

It was definitely an experience. I mean, where else would the "host" be a big black man with a jacket and hat that both have the word SECURITY written across it? Only at Roscoe's!

I was impressed with the service, the atmosphere, and the food. It wasn't as "ghetto" as many people claim it to be.

I ordered #1 - SCOE's 1/4 chicken prepared southern style, 2 waffles $10.20. Whoa, talk about a heart attack on a plate! Everything was delicious! The chicken was moist and the skin was extra crispy *drool*. The waffles + syrup + butter = delicious! I had such a hard time deciding what to eat more of ... chicken? waffles? chicken? waffles? It didn't really matter because I couldn't have finished all of that food even if I really tried. The portions are HUGE!

I'm a fan! Although, I can't promise to be a regular customer because my badonkadonk would be out of control!

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fucken cumlord

http://sf.eater.com/archives/2009/04/10/yelp_to_allow_business_comments_will_it_matter.php

Late yesterday, the AP broke the story that Yelp is going to allow businesses to respond to user reviews. The move is obviously a response to the wealth of negative Yelp press lately, and while it's probably a step in the right direction, there are some questions to be considered.

Will it improve the site? We'll reserve judgment until the actual feature is released, but we're doubtful. If there is any large-scale impact at all, allowing business owners—that is, the ones that don't ignore Yelp—to respond at will is likely to add to the already-overbearing white noise of the site. The reviews are already useless—Gary Danko has 1360, for example—and the possibility of adding a he-said, she-said feature isn't going to make things more helpful. And let's face it, some restaurateurs can be just as petty/explosive as Yelpers.

Will it improve Yelp's troubled reputation? On the surface, we're betting yes, even if it is, as we suspect, a token move to appease the increasingly-loud critics. It is a simple fix to a common complaint—that businesses don't have a voice. Reputation, reputation, reputation!

Ok, so what's in it for Yelp? Aside from the aforementioned damage control, the move—and it's a smart one—will prompt more business owners to go online, which is good for Yelp and Yelp's wallets. Note that the AP story points out that to respond, businesses must register for a free business owner's account. We're betting that once already online, a portion of them will be inclined to buy sponsorships. New feature = more business owners online = $.

Yo-Yo-Yo. Word Up! I gotta rhyme for you.
Don't you dare turn the page. I got my eye on you.
My rhyme is so tight. It'll put a spell on you.
My rap is fresh and spankin' new.
Here I go. Here I go. Check, Baby. Check, Baby. 1-2-3.

I'm in the zone... Third Street Promenade's the street tonight.
The epicenter for shoppin' and eatin' right.
From the Buck Wolfgang Puck to Monsieur Marcel - oui, dawg!
To Houston's, Broadway Deli and Mickey Dee's.
Whatever you cravin' -- it's here for thee.
You hungry for steak 'n eggs, sushi, or mac 'n cheese.
3rd Street Promenade is the place to be.
From the Farmer's Market for collie greens, bushel of beets to organic greens.
Third street promenade the place for me.
It makes me alamand left and dosey-doe, and promenade over to my favorite store.

Third street promenade is the place to be.
For a movie, for a BBLD*, or a shopping spree.
Where else besides neighborhood mall can you find...
the Mac store, Urban Outfitters, Abercrombie and Bebe.
Anthropologie, Guess, and Old Navy.
Gap store, Barnes 'n Noble, and Old Macy's.
Pimp-smack patty whack give a dog a bone.
This tourist trap is nothing like home. Oh-No!
Or is it? It's got the same mall stores as any city, only Bling-Bling bigger for the $$$ Cha'-Ching $$$.

All the tourists on the street... Put your hands up! Yeah!
All the shopaholics with fake tans... Put your hands up!
All the Pruis driven locals... Put your hands up! Yeah!
Give it up for the street performers, musicians and 3rd street dancers.
Those krumpers 'n poppers that dance out of sight.
Pimp-snap, patty-whack-give a dawg a bone.
Drop a buck in a can for the poor man without a home. Oh-No! Awww, man! That's messed up! :-(

Warning: Paris Hilton, New York House Wives, Plastic People... beat it. My rap and 3rd Street ain't for you. Hit the skids, bitches! ha ha ha ha, watch your back pockets fellas. These narcissistic scants will take your soul. Yeah-Yeah! Oh-YA-AAAaaaaaa, BOY!!!
Word! PEACE-OUT!!!

*BBLD = Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch and Dinner.

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jesus

this tiny family place I eat lunch at has been getting way more business these past few months because of yelp which is cool

i have to say all the yelp reviews of everything in my neighborhood are spot on.

do you live in a neighborhood full of scumbags?

no. all the yelp reviews of the establishments around here are very complimentary though. except for the reviews of black oak books (which just closed) which were appropriately filled with complaints.

i ate at some sushi place in midtown that yelp recommended and it was total shit. A lot of the positive reviews in New York equate "good" with "cheap"

Brian V.
Chatham, NJ
4 star rating
7/28/2008

I almost knocked it down a star because just thinking about Subway gets that awful "5, 5 Dollar, 5 Dollar FootLOOOOOOOOONG" song in my head, but this is a good subway. The people generally make the food quick, they aren't shy with the toppings and it's clean.

I've only had one slightly bad experience here. Now I'm not one of those people who thinks everyone in 'Merica needs to learn 'Merican right when they move here, but if you're going to be in the food service industry, you should probably know enough to know what the toppings you're placing on sandwiches are. I asked for pickles, she started to put cucumbers on. And no, I don't think she was just suggesting I put the healthier version of pickles on my sandwich. From there, I just pointed out the remaining condiments and went on my way.

It's a good Subway, perfect place to pick up a quick dinner if you're getting off the train at 30th Ave.

Jason W.
Venice, CA
3 star rating
6/3/2008

I think it is okay. It is not that special. It is definitely the place to go in woodbury when you are between the ages of 15-25 (depending on when you leave town ha ha and if you can get out alive). It is kind of a sad existence. I mean socializing between tables. I must have known about three of the waitresses ( some people from woodbury, one of friends wife) here at different times. It makes me depressed to think about it. I have not seen these people for ever now and don't want to see them again. The food is not that good. It is greasy and unhealthy and will probably take a couple years of your life. However, the seats are pretty comfortable. They are open 24 hours too I think.

Melissa K.

Los Angeles, CA
1 star rating
8/26/2008

NO. i have not been to this place, but you know what? i am extremely disappointed. I didn't have to read any of the below reviews to support my theories.

This place is a joke. 3 "types" of ice cream? Are you serious? The website leads me to believe it is vanilla flavor in three different styles: soy, yogurt, ice cream. If you have shitty flavors I don't care about the 100 toppings you have and the millions of foul-tasting combinations I can come up with.

WTF. I'm sorry, SHEERAZ, maybe you should have done your research during the "12 years in the making" of millions of milkshakes. ICE CREAM IS THE MAIN INGREDIENT. TOPPINGS ARE JUST THAT--TOPPINGS. THEY ARE EXTRAS, they should be used to ENHANCE flavor, not MAKE it.

Instead of littering your website in a cheap attempt at advertising Hollywood.TV (What the hell is that? who visits that?), maybe you should have spent more time developing the SPECIAL OFFERS, and GALLERY sections. But the GALLERY section probably would be littered with pictures of you and D-List celebrities, wouldn't it? I was expecting photos of your product and store...

I'm really eager to know the price. I'm guessing at least $5 a pop. All a waste.

THE MOST BOGUS OF ALL (Maybe this is RareDaily's fault): RareDaily LA sent an email with the headline "Introducing the World's First Milkshake Bar"

Hmm, that is very odd, because I seem to have visited a Milkshake Bar in Bristol, England called "Shake King" in July 2007. Shake King has 150 FLAVORS OF ICE CREAM. And you have to take my word on this one. They do not have all of their toppings listed. I have pictures of the shop to prove that. I am willing to bet a good amount of money that they also beat Millions of Milkshakes 100 topping choices.

This is outrageous.

Man, you know you are a foodie when you get so upset about things like this!!

Cross-posted as a discussion topic incase this gets deleted!

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I think that argument started falling apart when English milkshakes were used as a comparison point

do you have to tip at an english milkshake bar?

so much anger

btw I made the mistake of looking up a pizzeria on Yelp the other day, and while there is nothing outlandish about this post, it made me realize just how many people try too hard to be condescending and come off a bit tacky:

When I read that people are a) surprised that this isn't just like the slice you can get for 2 bucks on any NY corner and b) surprised at the price, I wonder if they even knew what kind of place they were going to. ... There are casual pizza and wing joints and then there are pizza restaurants that produce the kind of pizza that true Italians consider a meal and not just a casual snack, like Americans do. This is the latter. ... The flour is of a highly specific grade, as are the tomatoes and cheese that are used here. The result is a pie that you eat with a fork and knife (gasp! Yes, like a real meal. Can you handle it?) and that leaves you completely satisfied with an entire pie without feeling like you're entering a carb induced coma like you'd feel with just two slices of our "beloved" American versions. ... Once you can get past our view of pizza as stuff-your-face-while-watching-football food, you can come to appreciate what Keste has to offer.

the morbius of milkshakes

Whenever I go out nowadays I always have the vague suspicion that half the people in the restaurant/bar are on a YELP meetup. I hate my age group.

NB that was not intended as an insult toward English milkshakes (although c'mon), it's more just that it seems agreed on both sides of the Atlantic that modern UK milkshakes are just not even the same thing as US milkshakes, at all

what is the yelp secret handshake

you can come to appreciate what my Teste has to offer

although wait, I guess if she's claiming this English place has loads of ice cream, they must be making American-style milkshakes, never mind

Ha ha.

The result is a pie that you eat with a fork and knife(gasp! Yes, like a real meal. Can you handle it?)

NO! I CAN'T HANDLE IT! I CANT HANDLE THIS PIZZA!

what is the yelp secret handshake

You just need to be dining/drinking in a visibly ill-matched group of young people, somewhere between team luncheon and double blind date. Then you need to proclaim loudly "Have you seen The Wire? It is one of the best TV series ever" and also talk loudly about European beers.

Don't worry, I'll spot you.

nabs you're being too kind that guy is a retard. like, thank you anonymous yelp person for informing me that pizza is available in a variety of contexts in these great united states of ours.

it was a gal! for the record I saw nothing else on the page that appeared to call for that, just a bunch of people saying it was rather expensive (it is) or that they found it a bit doughier than whatever Neapolitan type they expected. (also that they couldn't HANDLE the pizza.)

her particular variety of scorn should be saved for the dude who looked at the menu at the really good Mexican place on my block and then said "I'm supposed to pay $10 for a burrito?" as if he flat-out could not categorically fathom a burrito that was, like, good

I mean it's New York, you can get a $10 grilled cheese every other block

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/specialengagements/afewgoodmenjacktruth.JPG

you can't HANDLE the pizza!

hahaha it really helps that that redirects to a page with Lincoln on it

Expensive burrito /= good. My favorite burritos ever are gigantic ones for like 4 bucks at a Chicago joint.

(xxpost)

reading the mpls version of yelp, becoming furious

jesus christ there are reviews of lakes

rot in hell

Lake Calhoun

Courtney W.

Eden Prairie, MN
2 star rating
3/23/2009

Calhoun is in the middle of the chain of lakes so if you're going on a long run, it's kinda hard to avoid. It's 3.2 miles and perfect for 5k training.

It's not perfect if you are looking to commune peacefully with nature or get away from society. It's crowded. Traffic is a bitch. Parking is a bitch. You are supposed to only bike one way. If you bike the wrong way, even if the bike path happens to be empty, people yell at you. It's poorly lit at night. I avoid Calhoun as much as possible. In a way, I'm glad it's crowded - it helps keeps the other 2 lakes free for a more peaceful run.

umm but Jon surely you recognize the possibility that a sit-down restaurant can serve a really good burrito covered with green chile that is worth well over $10? this guy seemed to be of the opinion that a burrito flat-out categorically could not be worth $10, which strikes me as demented.

Lions Tap Family Restaurant

Category: Burgers
2 star rating
5/11/2009
$21 bought two people:

2 burgers - one with mushrooms and swiss and one bacon cheddar both w/ onions on top
2 orders of crinkle fries
2 soda w/ straws
unlimited napkins
20% tip for waitstaff (who were very efficient)

OMG, people, the Lion's Tap must be making a KILLING. I wish I was related to the owners.

$21 also bought me embarrassment w/ a side of pissed off. When we walked in to the restaurant, we were greeted by a girl who i assumed was the host. she asked, "how many?" and told us to go around the corner. So I actually followed her instructions and went around said corner. This pissed off everyone that was already in a scraggly-ass, unorganized line that i hadn't noticed. So... the people in line started making snooty comments. I turned red, snarled back something like, "I've never been here before...SORRY" and took my place in the back of the line. it was an awkward wait, to say the least.

but even with 10 people in line in front of us, we were in and out within 30 minutes. on a saturday night at 6pm, no less. the burgers didn't do much for me. the crinkle fries made me wish for something better - BK or McD's perhaps? but they weren't soggy, which crinkle fries tend to be. thumbs up for that. the bacon was cut round and not the thick, juicy kind. the plate was as big as the bun. no silverware was provided. just a big ol' box of napkins.

my husband and i both had horrible gas for the rest of the evening. it made for a super fun saturday night. he asked that i quote him in my review...he was "underwhelmed". i have to second that.

Augsburg College

Category: Colleges & Universities
2 star rating
3/23/2009 First to Review
It took them 2 years and 3 months to send me my diploma. I have no idea why. I paid them a ton of money for school. I never rented library books and didn't have any "holds" on my accounts. Oh well. Least I finally got it.

They have almost NO free parking near campus. The on-street parking they do have available has crazy rules. I got towed. Twice. So in a way I did learn something in college - Minneapolis has crazy-ass parking rules.

reviewing a lake is today's height of wtf.

I do, totally. But I can also understand how someone might balk at a $10 burrito if the only (relatively) expensive burrito they've had is like Chipotle or some shit.

(xxpost)

^^ same person, "Courtney W."

xps

my husband and i both had horrible gas for the rest of the evening. it made for a super fun saturday night. he asked that i quote him in my review...he was "underwhelmed". i have to second that.

"honey you still writin' your word thing on the interwebs?"

"damn straight i am. you still got the Montezuma's Revenge?"

"indeed i do, honey do me a favor? with regards to the food that was served to us tonight? call me "underwhelmed," will ya? can quote me on that?

"you know i will sugar bean."

"and bring me some pepto when you get a chance?"

I turned red, snarled back something like, "I've never been here before...SORRY" and took my place in the back of the line. it was an awkward wait, to say the least.

i love it when ppl do not even realize they are being an unreliable narrator, about their own lives

maybe lake rating doesn't surprise me because I used to look at ratemyprofessor.com when signing up for classes

bottom line is people rate everything

that shit needs to be destroyed too. "made me do a paper, so mean!!"

yes rmp has to be the most unreliable rating site of all time.

I just trust the chili peppers

i looked up a friend on there and a surprising number of responses were variations on "she gets really mad if you come in late, but she's pretty hot"

"i think she was teaching English or something"

tbf chili peppers are often otm.

RMP cheered up a friend's day when I showed him his page and he had a 4.7 on the hotness scale.

yelp saleslady has been incessant caller for the last few weeks trying to hip me to the jive re: their god damn website and why my store should give them all my money. pimpin pimpin pimpin

"honey you still writin' your word thing on the interwebs?"

"damn straight i am. you still got the Montezuma's Revenge?"

"indeed i do, honey do me a favor? with regards to the food that was served to us tonight? call me "underwhelmed," will ya? can quote me on that?

"you know i will sugar bean."

"and bring me some pepto when you get a chance?"

This sound so much like an Achewood script.

nah

1. Eclipse Records
Categories: Music & DVD's, Music Venues
4.5 star rating
4 reviews
1922 University Ave W
Saint Paul, MN 55104
(651) 645-7724

2. Eclipse Productions
1701 E Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55414
(612) 331-4210

3. Eclipse Electric Mfg Inc
Category: Lighting Fixtures & Equipment
6512 Walker St
Minneapolis, MN 55426
(952) 929-2500

4. Eclipse Dungs Controls
2740 Patton Rd
Saint Paul, MN 55113
(651) 635-0410

5. Eclipse
Category: Day Spas
2611 Innsbruck Dr
Saint Paul, MN 55112
(651) 633-6163

6. Eclipse Laboratories
7732 W 78th St
Minneapolis, MN 55439
(952) 946-8843

7. Eclipse Music
Categories: Musical Instruments & Teachers, Electronics
149 Thompson Ave E
West St Paul, MN 55118
(651) 451-8878

fuck if im going to give money to a place where i show up later in the search listings than a DUNGS CONTROLS operation

maybe if you paid them you could be number 1 how's that sound

"I've never been here before...SORRY"

^^^should be the default second post of every ilx newbie

Rating # on RMP is total garbage, but the actual reviews are occassionally helpful. More so than Yelp! anyway.

The food was fantastic, the drink I had was great. But still, I was underwhelmed. The service was mediocre, the decor gave me a sense of deja vu (upscale tavern typical: polished wood, dim lights, unmemorable details), and it just didn't seem like a good value.

"The tables are close enough together that when the waiter did not bother to look over at me or the table despite my "Hey, I'm the customer asking for something" hand up and looking right at him, it was clear I was being ignored.

When I did not leave a tip because of the service? The waiter ran out of the store after me to ask if I did not have good service. -- don't chase me down to my car, your manager (?) will hear about it one way or another.

:soap box:
Thai (and other asian) restaurants - when a customer says "give me authentic, i've had it before" - dont pussy foot around and feed me the regular food. I know you can do better.

American restaurant-goers - stop giving out tips just because you are eating out. Be realistic enough to give $0.00 tip if you don't get the basic service - if there is an error and the waiter does not apologize or even wait to see if it is to your liking - that's a clear sign. You wouldn't buy a tv with no electricity would you?

I'm a firm but fair tipper. Be one too. You and your pocket book are not cheap - especially in this economy. And this restaurant's waiter helped to remind me.
:soap box:"

DEAR YELPER, PLEASE DIE

(that said, I don't hate Yelp at all -- Yelp app is by far the best thing on the iPhone for "help me pick a nearby restaurant" problems.)

especially in this economy--fuck over the service industry whenever you can.

What goes in a UK milkshake?? Now I'm curious.

marmite

blood pudding

boke.

I hate all of you.

treacle maybe?

i am ok with treacle except for the fact that it is called treacle

it sounds like something you should patch your roof with.

yelp saleslady has been incessant caller for the last few weeks trying to hip me to the jive re: their god damn website and why my store should give them all my money. pimpin pimpin pimpin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

http://mashable.com/2009/08/27/yelp-augmented-reality/

thread won't be the same w/o omar ;_;

It was definitely an experience. I mean, where else would the "host" be a big black man with a jacket and hat that both have the word SECURITY written across it? Only at Roscoe's!

http://mashable.com/2009/08/27/yelp-augmented-reality/

Fuck restaurants, imagine if you could just point your iPhone camera at people's genitals and a YELP sexual rating would come up. "Delicious" or "Avoid."

god i wish you could leave insulting comments beneath people's reviews! or at least click a button that would add "people thought this was: what the fuck is this supposed to be even?? (1)" why did you think you needed to write a useless three star review of a chinese restaurant in the character of a malfunctioning robot???

Yeah being able to comment on a review is a functionality that is sorely needed. Amazon implemented it a while back and it adds a lot to the site.

"I don't know if anyone who reviewed, actually was conscious when they went to __________"

been seeing lots of these reviewers lately...if you had a good experience at a restaurant they thought poorly of, they'll just assume you were drunk and/or retarded.

i would consider joining yelp to complain about people's comments

More from the same review:

"After a long wait, the doorman wouldn't let us in, thinking that my friend was "underage", at 23. Then after showing an ID, thought it was fake"

A whole TWO YEARS past drinking age and the doorman didn't immediately recognize that he was of drinking age? For shame. Also I have been to this place a million times, and they don't have a doorman. It's a restaurant with a bar inside, they only check your ID if you buy a drink/hookah.

And then the last part of the review is basically "omg belly dancers started dancing!", which is the equivalent of going to a bar with a stage and then freaking out because a band starts playing live music.

Also the guy's name is "Mace"

why did you think you needed to write a useless three star review of a chinese restaurant in the character of a malfunctioning robot???

The Pitchfork'idization of online food reviews.

can't even quantify how primal my anger is at that fuckin comment max posted

destroy anyone who talks any kind of shit at all about roscoe's imo

scumbags gotta eat

I wrote my first yelp review (a complainy one) today, but only because the customer service I had from somewhere was so incredibly bad I thought people needed to know. Their only other review was poor as well. Of course the owner wrote me about five minutes after it went up to complain to me about it, and I was like, "you're certainly faster to respond to negative online reviews than you are responding to the multiple emails I sent you over the past three months about the status of my shit".

dude there are probably other places you can just go to if you want cheese fries so bad

yes, but it was a place I sent my camera for repair, so it was a bit different.

sending your camera in for repair at a cheese fries place was probably your first mistake

people that REPAIR cameras are scumbags

The barkeep took my order. I opted for the first thing on the menu - three eggs, sausage, potatoes, toast.

"How do you want your eggs?"

"Basted."

"What? Pasted? You mean scrambled?"

"Nope. Basted. Up and done. Sunny side up. Whites done, yolks runny."

"What was that you called 'em?"

"Basted. B-A-S-T-E-D. Some cooks use a little water and a small lid. Others splash grease. Basted. Steamed. Like that."

"I'll tell the chef."

He paid attention to me. I like that.

Brunch at Cheryl's includes a Bloody Mary and coffee. The drink was robust - aromatic celery, black (I think) pepper, horseradishy heat, big on the booze, three nice green olives skewered and spanned rim to rim. Great coffee, too.

I sipped the drink. I slurped the coffee.

And I sipped.

And I slurped.

Sip.

Slurp.

Sip.

Slurp.

Barkeep asked, "Your order come out?"

"Nope."

"I'll check." He ducked into the kitchen, came right back. "Order's on it's way, sir. Would you like another drink? No? You sure? It's on me."

I had other things to do that day besides pass out, topple over and fart.

"No thanks. I'm fine."

He apologized again for the delay. But I didn't mind. Really. Well, maybe a little. But not enough to do anything about it.

Two minutes later he apologized again.

A half-minute after that someone slid the plate in front of me. My eyes got big. 'Oh,' I thought. 'This'll do!'

Nothing satisfies like a traditional American breakfast, that's what I say, and I had satisfaction promised and plated right there before me. Although the egg whites weren't completely set - just a little albumen snot left uncongealed - I pushed off thoughts of Salmonella and dug right in.

The eggs: Rich orange yolk. Needed a little salt, though. Pepper would've been nice, too - damn near essential, I think - but all I saw was shaker stuff. I dumped a little into my palm, whiffed. Yup, that's what I figured: Ground so long ago its peppery pungency had passed. Oh, well.

jesus

people that REPAIR cameras are scumbags

― Alex in SF, Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:49 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Not true. When I get my Lynx 14 repaired I'm going to be so grateful to tiny Japanese dude in Georgia who did it.

Unless, you know, you're telling a joke.

whiney post could rightly be polled

someone wants to be writing a hard-boiled detective novel eh?

it's like the beautiful eastern european small boobs wife thank you how delicious guy of yelp

Whiney post must be a joke.

nah dude
http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=8SFMInrsguCSuaznnqI0PQ

"0 Friends"

and his first review did not indicate what was to come:

"Great food, generous portions, inattentive waitstaff."

They seem to be getting longer and longer.

his el greco diner one is grate

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v226/761/1/n293700085_1991.jpg

http://static1.px.yelp.com/static/20091022/i/new/ico/stars/stars_map.png

lol that didn't work right

yelp party photos are pretty hilarious imo

i meant to post something here a couple weeks ago and now i can't find it. not even sure it was actually yelp.

someone wrote on a review of an ethiopian restaurant "i thought i would like this because i have had nigerian food and really enjoyed it." lol :(

sounds like yelp to me : /

After repeatedly telling friends I didn't want to celebrate my birthday... I crawled out from under my rock and met them out for an impromptu drink anyway. Liquid Kitty and bartender Damien... thanks for getting celebrations off to a merciless start. The low lighting, loud music, vintage porn, friendly bartenders and drink specials...

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday extreme specials:

$3 Low Lifes = well shot and PBR
$5 medium cocktails... what ever that means
$2 PBR

- friendly locals bar
- metered street parking free after 6pm
- great specials, strong drinks
- wide range of specialty cocktails
- dark bar... did I mention loud?
- there's a back table available for a group of 15 or so
- bar was at 70% capacity on a Tuesday night, with 2 booths or so left. Start here then move else where.

Well, 27 better show me something .... or I will destroy it. Wait. What...

I need 4 advils... stat.

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what ever that means

jesus christ

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5397344/yelp%20fight-participant-i-was-trying-to-apologize

Has there already been a Yelp-centered Law & Order episode?

fwiw that lady just spent 3 days jail on 5150 watch. she is 1000% cuckoo, she used to have a bookstore in west portal that i went to once... seriously bonkers.

Has there already been a Yelp-centered Law & Order episode?

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, November 5, 2009 3:20 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

kind of! but it was like yelp+4chan+redstate. +schizophrenia iirc

i feel like at this point most people i know have written a review or two on yelp, usually along the lines of, "This place had pretty good food, I recommend it. Parking sucks, though." i think the intolerable ones are the ones whose lives revolve around the site.

i use yelp all the time to be totally honest its just that i become filled with a seething hatred for the human race every time

i think the site is 98% normal folks using it and 2% awful human beings getting all culty about it.

*casually using it

i dunno man like two-thirds of the reviews clock in at like three paragraphs which doesnt scream "casual use" to me

someone reviewed a lake.

i guess i was thinking about people who use it as a guide but don't actually write any reviews.

Echo Park Lake
4 star rating
based on 57 reviews

reviewing lakes is funny to me

someone reviewed a grave

i'm going to start yelping my bus rides

― Mr. Que, Friday, March 13, 2009 9:00 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

never did this

http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=smRRcUJeSnlwXc7k1JB6Kw

can i yelp my own house?

Salut

Categories: French, American (New)
3 star rating
11/4/2009
I live a few blocks from here and have only been a few times in 2 years. The main reason I don't like going back? The D-bag bartender who takes his role of "French" restaurant employee a little to much to heart. I went to France this summer for vacation and only ran into one server that equaled this pretentious bastard.

The food is good, and their specials are almost always convincing enough to get you to leave the menu for the greener pastures of the daily creation (short ribs were fantastic). This was also the first place I've ever had raw oysters and I continue to eat them today. They were great.

But that bartender. I get kinda angry just seeing him behind the bar when I bypass it for the restaurant. If you ever go, you'll know who he is by how he actively ignores all but the most attractive of the Edina cougar set. Lose him, and I'd give this place another star in a heartbeat.

If that bartender should ever happen to read this, dude, be less douche-y. You know who you are.

fwiw that lady just spent 3 days jail on 5150 watch. she is 1000% cuckoo, she used to have a bookstore in west portal that i went to once... seriously bonkers.

― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:29 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban

no shit, the bookstore that was by Radioshack? I used to hang out there before it closed...

everything about this is insane

The Burger Place

Category: American (Traditional)
4 star rating
11/3/2009
Good burgers for a good price. They have a large menu of specialty burgers and it's a quick lunch with tasty food. Everyone is friendly and the place is always busy at lunch.

http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=ebC_pH92K4uxyDenoXb5bg

The Corner Office Restaurant and Martini Bar

Categories: Bars, American (New)
Neighborhoods: Northwest, CBD
2 star rating
10/16/2009
We went here for drinks before dinner, and it was OK. I can't find a drink menu online (Flash isn't working), so bear with me on the drink descriptions.

My friend recommended the Pimm's, but they were out of cucumber. I chose a pear-champagne cocktail, which was syrupy sweet and not shaken/cold enough for my taste. It was hard to finish. Others ranged from my level of satisfaction (Red Bull / Orange SKYY was also too sweet) to actually satisfied (straight whiskey) with their drinks. At $9 a pop, I expected a bit more - more fanfare, more quality liquor (mine was made with SKYY), better taste.

protip, if you don't want something sweet, don't get a) pear-champagne cocktail or b) red bull and orange vodka.

more fanfare?

he wanted people to applaud him for drinking a pear-champagne cocktail

it's a lady.

btw any yelp review that says a restaurant is in a neighborhood that is a little bit "ghetto" is probably just referring to the fact that it's located in a middle-class hispanic area.

^^^ this applies to pretty much anything anyone uses 'ghetto' for most of the time. it's pretty
rare that saying ghetto doesn't immediately render a person despicable

great thread

i'll fucking murder a yelp reviewer

when my friend worked at a pizza place, a yelper once called him "insouciant" in a review (just thinking about this makes me lol irl)

they were like "The insouciant host was not concerned that there were pizza crusts on the floor" or whatever

he texts me fake yelp reviews all the time and it fuckin slays me, i wish i saved them or something

uh, excuse me, i need more chinese five spice infused ranch dipping sauce for my wanton venison poppers?

the "unreliable narrator" is a yelp constant, as was mentioned upthread

hey yall here's the worst yelper

http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=F6wPcddxMJL8D8uX0t-GJw

"This place is a god damn dump. The food was poorly made and looked like they sloped turky on there. they did not even cut the sandwich. this place is dirty as hell. the works are ignorant."

oh man fuckin goldmine here:

http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=GY9LJaxKP7tXlxExBE1J_Q

rvws are all in a sqrl police/marissa stylee + "indie girl in comedy moustache" userpic

there's a review of a party. a yelp party. five stars.

lol canks i thought the first couple said "did not eat here" and i was like, ok, that's kind of great

Today will be the last time i will go there. They have joined the group of restaurants that has tacked on a 4% fee to cover restaurant worker health care. This is disclosed in an italic font in the middle of the menu, probably so you will skip over it.

UGH HEALTH CARE FOR THE WORKING CLASS? NOT ON MY WATCH