Originally Posted by slawecki

finally. now i don't have to go to france to get the good parts of the animal.

i use zagat. it is slow to change. i noticed the 2010 dc zagat has added a very large number of new places(all with no ratings).

most cities have a local reviewer for the newspaper and/or their city magazine. many of these are very good, and much more extensive than zagat. for example, DALLAS and the dallas and the fortworth newspapers have decent reviewers. they go to a lot of dinky whole in walls, and do quite well.

here in dc, we have the washingtonian, and the post has a reviewer. you will see a lot more places, a lot more new places.

not to say that some of these reviewers are real ding a lings. the post once had a revered reviewer who had chefs who were close friends. they could do no wrong. a lot of them were butter and creme guys. when she really porked out, she began rating all restaurants solely by the quality of their salads, as that is all she ate.