kenji wrote:riddlemay wrote:[ like LTH. But I can't read LTH on my iPhone--at least not well, and not quickly. Yelp gets me within seconds to information and reviews about all kinds of businesses, including restaurants here in Chicago in neighborhoods with which I'm less familiar than my own, and it can tell me exactly how to find them. I used to hate Yelp, but that w
LTH can be viewed using the Tapatalk iphone/ipod touch app. Makes LTH very nice and smooth on those devices. Check it out:
http://www.tapatalk.com/
the freebie version is read-only but worth downloading to make sure you'd like it.
kenji wrote:LTH can be viewed using the Tapatalk iphone/ipod touch app. Makes LTH very nice and smooth on those devices. Check it out:
Katie wrote:But what tools other than LTH do you travelling LTHers turn to when you go out of town?
jesteinf wrote:On resources for finding places to eat while traveling...
Chowhound is good for other cities (not all cities, but some) and Yelp can also be useful (especially using mobile, location-based features). I've also gotten tons of great out of town recommendations via Twitter.
Darren72 wrote:jesteinf wrote:On resources for finding places to eat while traveling...
Chowhound is good for other cities (not all cities, but some) and Yelp can also be useful (especially using mobile, location-based features). I've also gotten tons of great out of town recommendations via Twitter.
I'm not on twitter. Do you get these recs from people who follow you, or are yore whole twitter-verse?
yelpers!!! $25.00 per review
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Katie wrote:This thread caught my eye again because I'm looking for a place Sweet Baboo would really like for dinner on Valentine's Day. One place I had in mind is praised in glowing terms here on LTH--but then, of the dozen or more posters, several seem to be on a first-name basis with, and some personal friends with, one or more people associated with the restaurant. On Yelp, more than 300 people who don't seem to know each other that well, if at all (which is not to say that they're not influenced by each other, just like the LTH group) give the place an overall grade of--as we say here on LTH--"meh" at best. Which group should I, or anyone else, believe? I am willing to go to the place on my own sometime when time and $ permit and form my own opinion, but until I can do that (and in general, unlike some lucky few LTHers, I don't have the time or $ to drive all over the Tri-State area doing restaurant reconnaissance, which is why I'd like to be able to believe in others' reviews) I am reluctant to risk a special occasion dinner for a loved one on such obviously conflicting reports.
Katie wrote:Which group should I, or anyone else, believe?
Katie wrote: On Yelp, more than 300 people who don't seem to know each other that well, if at all (which is not to say that they're not influenced by each other, just like the LTH group) give the place an overall grade of--as we say here on LTH--"meh" at best. Which group should I, or anyone else, believe?
JoelF wrote:infographic/flowchart from Wired magazine: Should I Trust This Yelp Review
(Spoiler: No)
jlawrence01 wrote:Then I noticed that there were 18 FILTERED reviews. Nearly ALL of the filtered reviews are unfavorable and most came AFTER the redo.
To me, that is a real crock and is one of the reasons that I do NOT post on Yelp. It is less than honest.
jlawrence01 wrote:Then I noticed that there were 18 FILTERED reviews. Nearly ALL of the filtered reviews are unfavorable and most came AFTER the redo.
To me, that is a real crock and is one of the reasons that I do NOT post on Yelp. It is less than honest.
NFriday wrote:I belong to Angie's List, and there are a group of contractors in I believe Indianapolis who sued Angie, because one of her subscribers contacted these contractors about having some work done, and told them that if they did not give her a really good deal, she was going to give them all a one star review
chgoeditor wrote:jlawrence01 wrote:Then I noticed that there were 18 FILTERED reviews. Nearly ALL of the filtered reviews are unfavorable and most came AFTER the redo.
To me, that is a real crock and is one of the reasons that I do NOT post on Yelp. It is less than honest.
I don't claim to understand Yelp's algorithms, but one thing that does seem clear: They often filter one-star and five-star reviews posted by people with just a couple reviews, particularly when the review is very short. Most of us seem to mentally do the same thing here on LTH: A first time poster appears and says something like, "This is the most awesome/awful place I've ever eaten," and he or she (rightfully, IMHO) gets dismissed.
Perhaps 3 years of built up expectations left me with an unobtainable vision of Big and Little's, but the soft shell crab po boy was a huge disappointment. The bread, spicy mayo and pickles were great, even the iceberg lettuce added to the sandwich, but the soft shell crab was quite small and still contained some shell or skin under the fried batter, I'm not exactly sure but it wasn't pleasant to eat. I enjoyed the bites with out the crab the most... which luckily was at least half the sandwich.
I completely understand you about the soft shell crab po'boy as it is quite an adventurous dish since we batter and fry the whole animal shell and all it tends to be one of those acquired taste items.
A Yale University dean has been placed on leave over offensive reviews she made on Yelp, including one in which she refers to customers of a local restaurant as “white trash.”
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“If you are white trash, this is the perfect night out for you!” Chu wrote in a review of a local Japanese steakhouse.
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[Pierson College Head Stephen] Davis, who is in charge of the college’s administration, said that review and another that described movie theater workers as “barely educated morons” were “deeply harmful to the community fabric.”