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Posts Tagged ‘restaurant guides’

Which Sources Do Readers Trust for Restaurant Commentary? The Ts Have It.

Posted by Tim Carman on Sep. 16, 2009 at 12:41 pm

OK, if Zagat's time is over, as Y&H argues in tomorrow's cover story, where do you turn for reliable commentary and ratings on restaurants? Yelp? Chowhound? Urban Spoon? DonRockwell? Or some other outlet? I don't think we've reached any sort of consensus yet, but the early response to my question this week is leaning hard [...]

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More on Makoto and Zagat’s Undying Love For It

Posted by Tim Carman on Aug. 28, 2009 at 6:56 pm

Following my post yesterday on Zagat voters' undying love for Makoto, colleague Michael Birchenall, editor and publisher of Foodservice Monthly, did some serious sleuthing through his back issues of the annual restaurant guide, dating back to 1993.  Here's what he found: Makoto, which opened in the early 1990s, made a meteoric appearance among D.C.'s best [...]

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