people that YELP are scumbags

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.

we are the same person, i think

common rite of puberty in north america iirc

The soup was too spicy, the chairs are uncomfortable and tables are narrow. But the cranberry margarita was very yummy

Feel good read if you don't like Yelp:

https://thehustle.co/botto-bistro-1-star-yelp/

What the fuck is with this person's system, where two stars appears to be terrible and three stars amazing?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/XBpFK5zuSepYnpgd6

YELP are scumbags
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-replacing-restaurants-phone-numbers-so-grubhub-can-take-a-cut

i don't know what the best thread for this would be, but i was reading about local sausagemakers and i ran across a gem of a review - on Google, not Yelp. it was by someone who knows enough about writing to put in a first sentence that grabs the reader, in this case:

"As I’m picking bullet fragments out of my teeth, not for the first time, from the deer sausage I didn’t want, I thought I would post this review."

that's exceptionally good writing for an internet review of a local german butcher, and i appreciate it.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvgxzd/yelps-horniest-most-prolific-reviewer-is-a-jacked-foot-worshipper-named-fox-e

checks out

His voice is gentle, and he speaks with a subtle posh British accent. He tells me he's from Oxford, England,

That guy singlehandedly balances out all the scumbags in this thread put together

The addas (red lentil soup) is pureed and that is not necessarily the most common way it is prepared in the Middle East, and the menu doesn't mention that it is pureed. It was more like a broth and not all that flavorful.

From a non-middle-eastern reviewer

love 2 correct people on their own culture's foods

scum

jfc

From local strip club review:

"1 of the girls farted on me I left instantly omg never again. I came to visit and all my friends told me to check that strip club it's 1 of the best . He got me good"

Should have to pay extra for that

I searched google today for bars that are open in the morning (take this as the given, don't judge me)

First two results were from yelp, with phrases that would seem to match my query exactly.

But, because I wasn't born yesterday, I knew not to even click those links, because I'd get a long list of bars that in fact do not have morning hours. I'm sure you know what I mean.

How is this allowed to happen? It'd be one thing if google owned yelp

"Typical, in many ways, of a mainstream hotel restaurant. Caramelized apple salad had apples which were not caramelized, but sautéed. Sweet potato fried were the best I think I've ever had, but they were finished with so much salt I had to scrape off each one before eating. The menu looks promising, but the chef is unskilled, or lazy. A friendly dining room manager exercised no quality control of food coming out of the kitchen. The bartender who served me was attentive, but presented as troubled, or sad."

troubled by a major league baseball career that didn't work out

caramelized... a word that may not mean what this yelper thinks it means

big lols at "presented as troubled, or sad."

The words "exercised" and "presented" are both deployed really precisely in this review

You don't really see a sunset over the harbor. It just gets darker.

^^^ somehow, one of the best things anyone ever copied from the internet and pasted onto ilx

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