Originally Posted by
Kgmm77
My core point was aimed at the comments about lazy tourism and doing your own research, which is exactly what the Guide is there to do.
I don’t agree with every rating the guide has made, but I don’t have the time, contacts and knowledge to form my own opinion in every location I visit.
Exactly.
The same reason I look at the Michelin guide, check out OAD and, of course, search for recommendations from the excellent contributors to this very thread.
I agree that there is always the Chef's Table, Instagram or FOMO effect that can destroy the very appeal of some the smaller, off the beaten track places. But as long as these establishments are getting bums in seats and prospering, then who am I to begrudge that?
And last I checked, Jiro was the subject of a pretty widely seen documentary which kinda let the cat out of the bag, so to speak.