Seattlest: Urban(fork'n)spoon Is The Best Restaurant Guide In Seattle

Helen

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:21:58 -0800

This site is interesting but I still like Yelp.com a lot more. The reviews are much better on Yelp and the people are a lot funnier! Yelp is the best restaurant guide in Seattle by far - Sorry UFNS.

Ronald Holden

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:23:02 -0800

I'm sure Thierry Rautureau will be thrilled that Rover's is the "most popular" restaurant in Seattle. Patently bogus, as he's lucky to be in the top 50 of "popularity." (Most popular/highest agrossing: Salty's, Space Needle, Ray's ...) Big diff between how non-patrons and regulars view a restaurant; a lot of conventional wisdom is hearsay. Clearly a lot of folks have heard that Rovers and Lark are "good," so they check off that box on the Zagat guide. My personal view: no one gets to review a place (or vote on one) unless they've personally eaten there and paid for the meal themselves within, say, the previous year. That said, Ethan's got a good idea, especially the menu links. And the blog links, duh.

BobH

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:16:36 -0800

Don't quite understand your enthusiasm for this site. Make a database of restaurants, check. Link to everybody else's reviews, check. Allow comments from people who may or may not know what they're talking about, check. Interestingly, the first restaurant that popped up in my search? Closed about a year ago. This has been done to death. But it's new and not connected to any "old media," so it must be cool, huh?