I honestly enjoy eating at dive joints...snack bars...greasy spoons, etc. just as much as I enjoy fine dining. I just did a tally on my 2012 hotel stays and I have about 180 nights....some have more but that is a record for me. Each and every night I eat out on the road - most of it being fine dining or hotel equivalent - and it all runs together...asiago-infused-fusion crap.

Give me hearty stuff, BBQ, locally-produced from a place that is not traded on the NASDAQ with good food anyday when I am at home and when I can help it.

I am in Molokai right now through EOY and I eat at a snack bar most days with a dog in the doorway, plastic chairs that almost fall over when you even look at them, and no walls or windows with the wind blowing through...it is the best food I have eaten since the summertime.

To each his own, but I would rather eat with the masses in local places anyday.