Personally I think many here expect chowhound.com to be something its not
(or intended to be) a restaurant review guide.
Its a community and should be treated just like one ( well as I THINK most here do... we treat Ftalk)

Do most here just visit Ftalk to specfically find how to upgrade to London?
or do you do as I do.. visit a number of boards just to read/hear what going on and maybe even help a member etc etc.

I love the the seemingly non-uniformity of chowhound.com as I wade through all the posts of the Southwest board for example, I can and will read what going on in Santa Fe, Las Vegas and Pheonix and have often found out about some great places in another city when I was really interested in someplace else at that particular time.

Chowhound requires some patience as you wade through stuff but how can you not be interested or fascinated about great food or at least somebody else opinion on the topic .

If you visit some boards regularly one gets an idea what going on in places you visit regularly or intend/might visit in the near future. For example I have some idea of the Las Vegas, Chicago or San Francisco dining scene by just popping over to Chowhould every now and then.
That way if I have to go to Chicago next week I have some idea of what i might want to try.


mike

Hey Zagat is good.. except its sometimes 6-8 months behind relative to new places.