people that YELP are scumbags

i can't make my face into a heat

[kid's hat was on backwards]

Likely an English as a second language writer, keep it cool.

uh...

Likely an English as a second language writer, keep it cool.

― nickn, Thursday, July 23, 2015 3:46 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was my suspicion too. ty for the translation rogermexico

tengo calor

The food here is just OK, Nothing special.
Service sucks unless you are a mexican.
They seem to get the order mixed up easily.
They forgot my drink with my order, Not going back here EVER.

I'm noticing for hotel reviews on Yelp/Priceline that "it's in a bad part of town" is shorthand for "a place where some poor people might live" srsly learned to start ignoring that part and just focus on the amenities/does it have bedbugs.

yet I feel like in the realm of one to two star hotels, I have yet to find one review where someone doesn't claim they got bedbugs, sooooo...

like everybody says the hotel I'm in right now was in a 'bad part of town' on Yelp and I'm here and it totally isn't! it's just a college area like any other state! and there was a kickass restaurant right next to the hotel! fuck you Yelpers! FUCK 2 YOU!!!

Reading Yelp is a sad substitute for discovering shit on your own or by word of mouth

huh. never discovered anything on yelp but i enjoy reading the 1* reviews of places i like

Yelp is useful for "what around here isn't completely terrible" and not much beyond that

IDK, I find great value in finding the least worst place to go. I'd miss it if it was gone.

Yeah, I think you can learn to read Yelp pretty well and use it to find places in towns you don't know, but never literally. The key is to look at restaurants you do know in a few different places, and then you get a feel what what praise is really damnation and vice versa.

oh god

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/08/05/coming-to-yelp-a-bigger-dose-of-data-on-health-care-facilities/

'I just put my mom in there today.'

Ugh. At least ProPublica is involved?

i'd like to know more about clinics and hospitals. i don't want to know what yelpers think about clinics and hospitals. sort of like restaurants

Not that I've taken it that many times, but do the Yelp reviews of Peter Pan buslines seem disproportionately terrible? It's as though these people have never taken a regular bus anywhere before and are shocked by what it entails.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/peter-pan-bus-lines-new-york

multiple reviewers seem to be challenged at ordering tickets for the correct day of their trip, one is upset at the "subpar professionalism" of the driver because he tossed people's luggage (what do you think happens to it on an airplane?), one reviewer thinks it's the fucking stone age because s/he actually had to print out the ticket

sure enough it was perfectly fine, again

sure enough it was perfectly fine, again

This place is simply nasty. I just ate two bites of a torta arabe and it was horribly salty. I tried to exchange it for something else and the guy behind the counter said I should just get my money back. He said he was worried I would also return that. Not much confidence in his food.

They also put a ton of sugar in their juices and i wanted to exchange that and the lady was rude so I got my money back and split. Fuggedaboutit.

Oh, and the Yankee game was on TV and half the restaurant wanted to watch it but the ENTIRE staff could not figure out the remote. Will not be back.

I *love* ordering food at Mexican places. Did you know that there's 3,272 different combinations of tortillas, meat, salsa and cheese, when accounting for varying sizes and methods of cooking?

No joke.

Anyhoo, I'm not really what TJFlats IS. It's too pricey for fast food (my burrito... wait, enchilada...wait..chimichanga...and a drink cost like 11 bucks), and it's too fast-foody to be the kind of place you'd take someone on a date or go for beers. That said, the service was friendly - they got us beers before we even ordered - and quick. The food was tasty, fresh, and obviously there were the gajillion hot sauces to choose from - (I went for the "graveyard" mix - a little squirt of five or six sauces chosen at random and mixed into one cup). My meat 'n tortilla creation was a lil' big on the tortilla and short on the meat, but atleast the meat tasted good and not cheap like taco bell dog food meat. (Apologies to those of you who *like* taco bell dog food meat - don't lie, I know there's some of you.)

I've heard the place is kuh-razy during lunch hours, but when we went during dinner we were practically the only ones there. Come on downtowners! If we want to KEEP new restaurants and stuff opening up downtown, we've got to attend the ones we've got...

Now that I've left - I realize I have one big question - How late are they open?!? We definitely need more (and better) late night food options, and I know that if I was walking home at 2:30 in the morning from the bars, TJ Flats would sound like Mexican manna from heaven. Or cielo en la tierra, if ya wanna be Mexican about it.

I'll never eat here again!! My food has a small rock (pebble) which has me question how clean and up to health code the kitchen is. When I showed the manager, he has the nerve to tell me it was a bean as if I am retarded and don't know the difference between a bean and a rock! I've only been eating beans for 30 something years you know!!!

Good thing I have my hepatitis shots in case they don't wash their hands after using the bathroom.

I am retarded and don't know the difference between a bean and a rock

display name gold

I am a bean, I am a (thousand) islannnnddd (dressing)...

alton brown has opinions

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/magazine/alton-brown-has-had-it-with-foodies.html

What a bozo. I used to love Good Eats and now I can't stand the sight of his smug face.

Also commenter nancy in Indiana (probably a yelper in her spare time) has some fascinating things to say:

have not watched food TV in many years. I remember Alton's earlier days and his shopping in Kroger's.

This Saturday Piggly Wiggly will mark its 99th year as the first true self service grocer. Before that customers were not allowed in aisles. You made a shopping list because you had to hand it over to a clerk to be served. Through the years mark the change we have observed in shopping:

Stores have added refrigeration and technology.

Stores have meats, dairy, produce.

Stores have added shopping carts instead of bringing your own shopping basket.

Stores have moved from the downtown areas to the outskirts of town, making downtown areas empty.

Stores started taking credit cards.

Stores have added liquor in some states where allowed. Promotions include buy six and get ten percent.

Stores now have cup holders on the carts for those who have to drink during the dehydrating activity of grocery shopping.

Besides food and chefs and foodies and fast food, look at the actual structure behind food supply. In the college town we have a stratification of Kroger, one being the Kroghetto and the other called the Krogucci, where the store actually has small games in going through the store with various tasks to win gift certificates.

While I cannot complain of availability of products, I agree something bothers me in the pit of my stomach about this, and I do not think it is the actual food.

Oh for the perfect olden days when stores were cash only and didn't refrigerate anything

xp - yeah the alton browns of good eats and cutthroat kitchen are like two different people

so essentially she made a bland list about changes in grocery store procedure and hoped the point would arrive on its own once she finished?

glad today to have learned of the evil ways of Big Grocery

It appears that way. Out of those the only bad one is moving groceries stores away from urban centers and arguably creating food deserts (although she seems to blame grocery stores for urban blight in general) and maybe depending on your personal morals, the booze could be bad but the rest of these things are good and useful and help people.

Maybe her father was a Piggly Wiggly clerk and never recovered from the loss of his job when grocery stores moved to a self service model. Also the thought of handing over a store list to a random stranger bothers me in the pit of my stomach (and I do not thing it is the actual food.)

lol yeah, it wasn't even clear to me that she was saying these developments were *bad* things until I saw the comment about moving the grocery stores away from downtown.

she also curiously seems to think it's a universal truth. In Orlando, we practically have grocery store congestion, they exist wherever people do. Including downtown, which has a gigantic Publix with a free parking garage underneath it.

did alton shop at a krogucci or kroghetto?

xp Yeah there's parts of Chicago where you'd be lucky to pay $3.00 for a mushy apple in a booze-n-snacks store and parts where there are five different grocery shopping options in a three block radius (we used to live in the middle of one of the latter and it was GLORIOUS).

The thing that bothers me most about this is that he had an item on his todo list for 17 years. Granted he had to wait until Yelp was invented, but he could have done this at least 10 years ago. http://www.yelp.com/biz/rezas-restaurant-chicago-3?hrid=rqKgY9-bBcWbqfnr_8jfIQ

Keg of Evanston
36 Reviews
American (Traditional), Dive Bars

Three star average? You're kidding, right? This is the shittiest bar on earth.

Even as a dumb-fuck freshman, I knew that this place was trash based on the stories and the clientele. Thankfully, I only set foot in there three times. The first was as a sophomore, when--I swear to God--I handed the bouncer my REAL ID, which showed me to be 19, and he just handed it back and waved me in. Unbelievable.

The second time I was actually legal, and my friend insisted on coming here on his 21st-birthday pub crawl. This was the place where the bartender gave him--unsolicited--a complimentary shot of Bacardi 151 even though he had clearly had way too much already. Class. My friend didn't make it to the men's room before ralphing up his entire pub crawl.

The third time was shortly after that for "Thirsty Thursdays" when they sell shit beer in a 32-ounce cup for really cheap. Even then I had developed the early stages of beer-snobbishness. I only went because I was trying to romance a girl who I knew would be there. I never did get together with that girl. I sure was a dumb bastard back then. In those days, your only choice was between The Keg and Tommy Nevin's. Now you have mediocre crap such as Prairie Moon and Bar Louie in addition to gems such as The Celtic Knot. There is no excuse EVER to visit this shithole. Don't go to The Keg unless you are under 21. Even then, I advise against it.

I hate The Keg.

If you hate it this much, def go there 3 times tho

The Keg is a bar now?

The Keg is still there?!

a bar where they let in underage kids and dole out free shots does not deserve such a scathing review.

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/quiz/22044_1214589540299_500_212.jpg

Did you on that on yelp there are reviews of LA intersections?

Hollywood & Vine I get...Mulholland drive I get...but there are reviews of "Sepulveda Blvd & Pico Blvd" and everyone is so SERIOUS about it. It is seriously the most LA thing I have ever heard of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D98BR1DYrkg

What is the point of reviewing an intersection? Nothing will change as a result and it's not like you can decide not to patronize it.

pico and sepulveda video is A+, never heard that song before.

Oh, man, Dr. Demento used to play it all the time, still goes through my head when I'm in that area of L.A.