Posts Tagged ‘Zagat’
This Week’s Greatest Hits on the Young & Hungry Blog
Y&H will give you three guesses as to what the most-read post was this week. Two of them won’t count.
That’s right, once again, a certain low-cal product from Bud leads the pack, for the umpteenth week in a row. This is the dark side of search-engine optimization.
- Budweiser Launches Select 55, Light Beer Arms Race Gets Absurd
- Which Sources Do You Trust for Restaurant Commentary?
- White House Farmers Market to Open Tomorrow
- D.C. Bloggers: Help Make Next Month ‘Blogtoberfest’
- Which Sources Do Readers Trust for Restaurant Commentary? The Ts Have It.
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Remembrance of Zagat’s Past: The SNL Sketch
As Y&H bids farewell to the Zagat era in this week’s cover story, I’d like to recall this hilarious SNL sketch in which the late, great Chris Farley was so funny as a matronly, oblivious wife that Adam Sandler could barely keep it together.
Which Sources Do Readers Trust for Restaurant Commentary? The Ts Have It.
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 on the standard media over the online newbies. That’s right, the Toms, Todds, and Tims have it (even Tyler, who’s online but hardly new media).
The first person to respond to the question was Richard, who wrote in quickly and succinctly, if sloppily: “Hands Down, it’s Tom Sietsma [sic] at Brand X.” I asked Richard to elaborate on his choice, and here’s what he wrote back:
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Zagat Continues to Fight for Its Life with nru
You have to give Zagat a ton of credit. According to an article yesterday in the New York Post, Zagat guide sales are down dramatically, the company has laid off staff, and it is way behind online competitors such as Chowhound and Yelp in readership and relevance.
What’s a moribund print-bound company to do? Well, among other ploys, Zagat has launched an application, called nru (cool text-speak for “near you”), for T-Mobile G1, MyTouch 3G, and Samsung Galaxy phones. It’s available at Android Market, although, to be honest with you, I have no friggin’ clue what that means.
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If Carla Hall Becomes the Next ‘Top Chef,’ She Doesn’t Want Her Own Restaurant
Heading into tomorrow night’s Top Chef finale, D.C.-based caterer Carla Hall tells ZagatBuzz that she has no interest in opening her own restaurant. That would put her in the minority of Top Chef finalists, winners or not. Ilan Hall, Sam Talbot, Harold Dieterle, Hung Huynh, and Stephanie Izard, among others, have all either opened or are planning to open their own restaurants.
Not Hall. She tells Olga Boikess:
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Inauguration Eats: What Restaurants Are Doing to Celebrate Obama
As the inauguration approaches, and threatens to turn our town into one giant parking lot, we’ll start scouring the town (well, the Web, too) to unearth the most interesting eats out there to celebrate Barack Obama’s first day in office.
This handy little compendium of ideas comes courtesy of ZagatBuzz, D.C. edition. Among other
tidbits, ZagatBuzz notes:
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