If you eat out in San Francisco, the first thing you notice is how easy it is to get a table at your favorite restaurant. In the pre-credit crunch days, you had to reserve weeks in advance. Today you walk in. It’s no surprise that SF restaurants have been doing all kinds of promotions to [...]
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SF restaurants promote recession specials: all you can eat pizza nights and prix fixe menus
Posted: 12 November 2008 in Restaurant reviewsTags: san francisco
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Amsterdam's latest hot spot: Momo restaurant lounge and bar
Posted: 5 October 2008 in Restaurant reviewsTags: amsterdam
I just reviewed the best place to hang out in Amsterdam: Momo, a restaurant lounge and bar next to the entrance to Vondelpark and one block away from the PC Hooftstraat, the city’s luxury boutique shopping street. What I like about Momo: the sushi and sashimi. Read Mapplr’s review of Momo.
User-generated dis-content: Yelp pulls suspicious reviews
Posted: 4 July 2008 in Restaurant reviewsTags: user generated content, yelp
Ah, the joys of user-generated content (UGC), where everyone, including someone with an IQ equal to their shoe size gets his say. Very democractic, the Internet. Isn’t this what we were all waiting for? The problem is when everyone gets to have an equal say, who is to say whether the review is trustworthy or [...]
Bad coffee comes to Europe: Starbucks empire set for European expansion
Posted: 12 June 2008 in Restaurant reviewsTags: starbucks
What tastes like burnt muddy water? Starbucks coffee, of course. I hate it, well at least the US version. Why Starbucks coffee and pastries taste better in Japan’s Starbucks cafes remains a mystery. Now it seems that Starbucks is expanding in Europe. They are already ubiquitous in London but that’s not enough for the purveyors [...]
Favorite restaurants in Sydney, Florence, Montreal and one ethnic dive in SF
Posted: 2 May 2008 in Restaurant reviews, TravelTags: florence, montreal, restaurants, san francisco, sydney
I’ve been posting a lot on Mapplr lately, favorites in various cities like Sydney, Florence and Montreal. I have also included a review of an excellent Pakistani-Indian restaurant, a real dive in the Tenderloin district of SF. Mapplr favorite restaurants in Florence Mapplr favorite restaurants in Sydney Mapplr favorite restaurants in Montreal Lahore Karahi: fabulous [...]
