people that YELP are scumbags

Yeah, that was a little o_O

lol i missed that

BLACK LIST "Robin Hood Pub" 13 Alpha Omega Pi Sq

The Food is Fine here It is The Staff and way the run it That I question

As a Long time patron off and on for twenty years and my family fun nights over the years is at an END ! This was my Birthday Dinner and unfortunately it did not turn out to be the best dinning experience AS for the for the "Hood" Never have I been so disappointed in the Service Industry Lydia the Manager FORCING a CLIENT to PAY for Food that is Not Consumed and when a Client is NOT happy is Paramount to Cutting your own wrists
I was asked to pay for Food I DID NOT Consume nor want
Worst experience ever in my life

FYI

Making a Client Pay for Food is a Practice that I hope is NOT PATRON-ED
AS a Matter of Fact I am going to make a point of mentioning it for the rest of the year and as an antidote for years to come if your Business continues as I am sure it will it will continue to be a great example of Hot Not To Run a Restaurant Successfully in The 21st Century

I could have Not Payed

I choose to give her the money

But I also Choose NEVER to Return

Thanks for the Memories Robin Hood and Lydia

I will never Forget this

Cheers ! "Keep Calm and Curry On "
Just NOT at Robin Hood

Smile its not that Important
:D

:D

Making a Client Pay for Food is a Practice that I hope is NOT PATRON-ED

http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/i/partypictures/01_08_09/520-Specialty-Drink-Partido-Tequila.jpg

NOT PATRON. -ED

welp, only 45 more minutes till i leave work

http://www.kaboodle.com/hi/img/b/0/0/126/7/AAAACw-3-I8AAAAAASZwDg.jpg?v=1296505250000

and when a Client is NOT happy is Paramount to Cutting your own wrists

so good

http://www.yelp.com/biz/reputation-defender-redwood-city

I am willing to travel for food, and even willing to get on a plane just to go and eat something. SERIOUSLY! Since I haven't found anyone to go to Tobago with me to go and eat Bake and Shark - I guess the hood of Brooklyn will have to do.

Kudos on serving some great fries, but if only you guys had ranch dressing for dipping! I can think of half a million things ranch could go with off this menu, and my beloved sweet potato fries are only one item out of that half of million. Bring in the ranch and I will bump you up a star! (Seriously, think about it.)

what the everloving fuck

uh oh, he's back

There is a giant gaping hole outside of my house on wolfe street. It is like a lovecraftian pit - an entrance to a particularly smelly hell, bordered by the sad detritus of a dead tree that I failed to water...again. I am the slayer of young trees, white birch and dogwood like blades of grass before the scythe.

I walked to Canton in order to take care of some insurance business, and I was suitably tired and hungry when I was finished. The weather was somewhere in between sweater weather and badass leather jacket weather, and of course I wore the badass leather jacket. I couldn't let the city workers on the street outside see me in a sweater covered in cute rabbits - it simply isn't done. The side effect of this manly decision was ending up drenched in sweat even through the cold weather that is currently settled upon Baltimore like a dreadful harpy. I was tired, and sweaty, and fairly gross. That's when I walked into Rosina Gourmet.

The manager(owner?) was extremely pleasant. I wanted half a sandwich and even though that is not on the menu he said it was fine. The sandwich selection is brilliant, and all the ingredients are very fresh. I eventually settled on a classic Italian on a freshly baked ciabatta loaf. While the sandwich was being made I had a pleasant chat with the manager about coffee, and he made me an espresso. I smelled the coffee beans before he ground them and noted their aromatic softness, their sweet delicacy like mown hay.

The experience I am describing with detached adoration is exactly the feeling I had while eating the sandwich on my way back home. There are few times when the character of an establishment is so decisively present in its goods; in this case I can clearly see the breadth and length of their determination to make the finest sandwiches in the Canton area...and perhaps all of Baltimore. The size was perfect for my muted appetite, but if you are expecting a subway style sub that feeds nine plus one 3rd world country of your choice go elsewhere, please. This shop is not for you. You cheap, fat ass bastard, you.

coffee as fresh as the mountain morning, as fresh as an ocean breeze, as fresh as mown hay

can i punch him
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

Last week the fall landed with the feathered loft of a falling star. Outside the wind drew lines in the yellowed grass and the scent of the bay carried itself across the street to my house. I woke up, walked outside, walked back inside to put on sunglasses, and headed down to fells point.

It was morning and I had already had an espresso from the daily grind, but I was hungry. The cobblestones were like corrugated footsteps I followed down the lane of my memory, and as I caught the smell of freshly made bread I found myself walking towards Bonaparte. Once I sat in the sun and ate pastries with a pale skinned girl, fire red hair a coronae of my fierce love for her. I remembered the sound of her fingertips upon the edge of a plate, sadness caught on porcelain like the inner rim of her ear. I remembered her pale green eyes and blinked to draw them from my memory as I walked in the door. The past is a thing of open spaces, or should be. The present remains sheltered inside, among the drawn fires of humanity. A shutting door sounds like a beating heart for a reason.

Inside Bonaparte is a little slice of suburban france. The space is utilitarian - a bakery with a front from which people can buy things made on the premises. There are fresh breads lined up like soldiers on the counter, with a sign helpfully imploring you not to touch the bread; but they are so beautiful, the loaves like the warm fingers on a hand, that one would never touch them anyways without permission. The pastries and cakes are next to a display case that holds croissants - ham and cheese, chocolate, and others pastries. Though I usually get a tart, as their tarts are probably the best in Baltimore, I sometimes feel with slight whimsy the need for a ham and cheese croissant. They are, in my opinion, the best breakfast meal in all of Baltimore.

I was told they did not have any, as they generally make them for the weekend. Bad news delivered by a beautiful girl that sank the anchor of my heart - but then another girl(beautiful as well, for they are always, always beautiful) told me that she would look in the back. It turns out that they had made two or three on a whim, and on a whim I bought one to go.

There is an easy familiarity with the staff at Bonaparte and this is what makes me give them five stars. At any other bakery I would leave, shoulders bowed. At any other bakery I wouldn't feel that irrepressible glee that made me hop from foot to foot. Here, I found happiness ensconced in those friendly smiles and soft overtures. Here, I left with my croissant hot and ready to be eaten as I found my way back home - regretting, if for a moment, that the place I had just left was not my destination.

he's got to be trolling with this shit

I'm feeling whimsical, gimme a ham and cheese croissant

This shop is not for you. You cheap, fat ass bastard, you.

you contemptible piece of shit, heaven forfend that my pristine words would ever touch your heart

I remembered the sound of her fingertips upon the edge of a plate, sadness caught on porcelain like the inner rim of her ear.

lmfao

"girl, your ears are like SAUCERS, lemme hit it"

haha dying

There is an easy familiarity with the staff at Bonaparte and this is what makes me give them five stars. At any other bakery I would leave, shoulders bowed. At any other bakery I wouldn't feel that irrepressible glee that made me hop from foot to foot. Here, I found happiness ensconced in those friendly smiles and soft overtures. Here, I left with my croissant hot and ready to be eaten as I found my way back home - regretting, if for a moment, that the place I had just left was not my destination.

"wtf is the deal with the dude bouncing up and down over a croissant?"
"he's a yelper"
"ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

that's what I look for in a good baker: soft overtures

I am imagining this dude to be 53 and burly with a mountain man beard and a fedora, btw

"wants to write on yelp" has got to be my A1 criteria for someone whose opinion to IGNORE

I'm picturing weaselly 25 yo indoor-scarf wearer

i shd open up the thread to see how many times i've said that before

looks like deathdrone, in the mirror sees ed westwick

A shutting door sounds like a beating heart for a reason.

I have a sneaking suspicion this dude either doesn't know how to close a door or spends a lot of time killing people. Possibly both.

wouldn't it be lovely if each yelp review had a "comments" section like amazon reviews have? i'm sure the yelp ppl realize what a mess it would create if people were actually directly called out for their bs but how nice would it be...

oh my god you guys ive found a Yelp exclusivley for vegetarians

http://www.vegguide.org/entry/1666

My fiance and I are both vegan. We told this to the waitress when we first ordered our meals.

We ordered, ate the appetizers that we could find that was vegetarian, she came out with our meals, and mentioned in passing "with vegetarian soy" we half-jokingly asked her what kind of soy sauce isn't vegetarian.... she said their house soy sauce has fish sauce in it. Isn't that lovely? it wouldn't have been so bad if the waitress would have told us that it wasn't vegetarian ahead of time. That way, we could have NOT compromised our beliefs and made ourselves sick. (I am surprised at how quickly it messed me up)

We talked to the manager, and he didn't seem apologetic. After he talked to our waitress, he came back and said he'd take the (6 dollar) veggie maki off the bill... oh boy. Free fish! nobody can turn down free fish! Even if it means sitting on the toilet for hours. :-/

So, needless to say, I don't recommend this place to anyone. With the plethora of vegetarian restaurants in center city, why would anyone want to go to Morimoto and pay way too much money for bland food? (although there was an appetizer that had crispy caramelized onions that was really quite tasty, but the majority of our food really was nothing to write home about) Maybe for the chance to see iron chef Morimoto at the sushi bar, but that's really it. For vegetarians at least.

omg

why would u go thinking 'oooh morimoto, his vegetarian sushi must be amazing'

O_o

tbh i am eating a customized four course vegan dinner at Morimoto next week ^_^

I don't even understand the story - the server told them it was vegetarian soy sauce so they freaked out about the non-vegetarian soy sauce that they...didn't have? Am I missing something?

they ate the non-veggie soy with their appetizers before the waitress came out with entrees and mentioned the veggie soy. but i had to read the whole thing slowly to figure that out.

I'm just cracking up that soy sauce made them sick

seriously, at that point, just, don't go out, ever.

that's a bit like wile e. coyote only falling when he looks down to see air beneath his feet

I mean, I'd get it if they ate like a gigantic plate of beef, but they ate some soy sauce made with fish sauce on vegetables.

I feel like any decent vegan/vegetarian worth his/her salt know that soy is often not vegan???

Soy sauce, I mean. And worchestershire sauce, etc. I mean how about some A1 on your veggie burger?

or some gravy

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS GRAVY HAS MEAT JUICE IN IT???

I think the soy sauces you buy in the store are all vegan. Soy beans, wheat, water, salt, and the fermenting fungus.

I mean, I'd get it if they ate like a gigantic plate of beef...
--Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP)

Not even that, tbh. They had a bad case of preciousness.

that's a bit like wile e. coyote only falling when he looks down to see air beneath his feet

― sug ones (omar little), Friday, October 26, 2012 3:34 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, this is brilliant. i'm using this next time a vegetarian tells me they "felt sick" after they accidentally had a spoonful of baked beans that were cooked with bacon fat.

Nah, veggies can feel sick from eating stuff with meat. I imagine for a lot of them it's psychological, but I've known enough people who've become unused to eating certain foodstuffs who get sick on it that I think there is an inability to process after a while... not just vegetarians, either. Just general 'not had this before/for a while, ooh my stomach feels odd'.

On the other hand... I always thought that *all* soy sauce was fish-based, so it seems a bit odd to blame a restaurant for your own ignorance.

leaving aside the case of food that would make anyone sick, i have no reason to believe any of the junk theorizing around "losing the ability to process" meat.

I was raised vegetarian and didn't taste meat until I was in my teens. If the ability to process flesh is acquired, I'd seem like a good case for someone who never acquired it in the first place, let along lost it.

But on the rare occasions when I have e.g. eaten a steak at a grandparent's birthday or accepted hospitality offered in good faith or gone native for a few months in a place where vegetarian food is hard to come by, I've never had a problem.

Disgust is not indigestion, and I suspect that a lot of vegetarians who "got sick" after eating meat would have been fine if no one had told them what was in the soy sauce.