Read the reviews?

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 I'd been wanting to try a restaurant I drive by occasionally and tonight was the night.  I got some yard work done before the rain this afternoon.  By yard work, I mean I mowed the lawn, edged the lawn, swept off the driveway and cut down some rogue branches and sticker bushes in the yard after cleaning up after my pets.  That sounds like work.  It took less than an hour, I'm sure.

The joy of not having a big yard is that it's easy to do all that stuff.  Once it's edged, it's much easier to keep it that way and I haven't had to mow in probably three weeks.  

Still, though, I didn't feel like cooking dinner.  I did defrost and bake some beef ribs but had a feeling they were going to suck.  About six, I got a text from the person in the other room who wanted to inquire about dinner.  It made me laugh that a text was necessary.  I needed the laugh.

I expressed my desire to try the restaurant in question.  An on-line search for a menu showed the place had 4 stars for reviews.  I've seen some pretty critical reviews of restaurants in my day so I think that 4 stars is a pretty safe bet.

Most of the time.

But not tonight.  

I showed up to pick up my order at the time they told me it would be ready.  It wasn't.  I live maybe 10 minutes from the restaurant.  By the time I got home, the food was cold.  It wasn't well prepared.  It just wasn't good, to the point my friend quipped that "taco bell is better".  That's harsh, but it wasn't far from what the reality of the situation was.

I went back and read some of the reviews about this place and it's interesting to me that you either love this place or dislike it.  I found the reviews for the dislike it crowd to be reflective of the experiences we had with our own food this evening.

I never know how to take restaurant reviews because I know how over-critical people can be about food.  People are picky.  People are also mean sometimes.  In tonight's case though, I think the reviews were right.  

There's a lot going on in our world and it's getting harder and harder to remain a-political but that's a task I'm trying my hardest to do.  That's why you're reading about bad food.  BTW, the beef ribs sucked, too so tonight, in foodie land, we were 0-2.  

It happens.

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