Is This Where You Eat?
November 20th, 2007 by Brian Ries in Best Of, Media, Restaurants
According to the fine folks at Where The Locals Eat, Tampa/St. Petersburg qualifies as one of the Top 50 cities in the US!
WTLE’s new book tries to nail the best 100 restaurants in each of their top 50 cities and, as vague survey lists go, it does a fairly good job. The big guys are on there — like Bern’s, The Columbia and Ceviche — but there are also some actual local joints like Mel’s Hot Dogs, El Cap, Skyway Jack’s, Thai Sweet Basil and Atwaters. And, perhaps as a nod to our love of the prefabricated dinner experience, there are a half dozen chains included in the list.
If you’re traveling to the Bay area and don’t want to bother doing a little web research, this book might be for you. But anyone who actually uses the web won’t need to pick up the print version of Where The Locals Eat; you can find all the Tampa/St. Petersburg listings for free on the WTLE website.
November 25th, 2007 at 5:05 am
The trouble with truffles…
Brian Ries, I love the Creative Loafing paper. BUT you are the number one reason as of right now that I can’t stand it only because they hired an imbecile like you to write an article on mushroom/chocolate/chicken truffles. What in the world were you thinking with your first paragraph?! I’m honestly at a stuper as to how you got your job at Creative Loafing being a “food critic”. I was talking to my significant other and I stated, “How does a guy like this get a job in an established magazine like the Tampa Bay Times with an article starting like that?” He says, “Amanda, that’s Creative Loafing.” I was beside myself when he told me this. You are a sorry excuse for any living being that calls themself a food critic. I am a 21 year old girl and I can honestly say that you’re the dumbest human being that ever got a gig with a newspaper that I respected. Because of you, Brian Ries, I don’t think I’ll ever lay eyes on another edition of Creative Loafing.
Thank you for tainting my perspective of something I used to think enlightened me on the brighter side of life and the brighter side of truffles.