{"id":1372,"date":"2002-01-17T07:19:01","date_gmt":"2002-01-17T12:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2002-01-17T07:19:01","modified_gmt":"2002-01-17T12:19:01","slug":"make_your_reser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/17\/make_your_reser.html","title":{"rendered":"Make your reservations today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zagats is a customer-survey-based restaurant guide printed in most cities.  It generally does a good job of giving you a heads-up about good restaurants, bad restaurants, and those in-between.<\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;ve posted some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zagat.com\/help\/outtakes_1.asp\">comments<\/a> that they, ah, couldn&#8217;t really print in their guide books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Stay home and heat up a can of Alpo instead.<br \/>\nFilled with flowers and all the things that make flowers grow.<br \/>\nIf this place doesn&#8217;t get you laid, nothing will.<br \/>\nIf I want a fatty sandwich served by a walking attitude, I&#8217;ll go to Mom&#8217;s.<br \/>\nWonder why there aren&#8217;t any cats in Chinatown? Eat here.<br \/>\nGood seafood, but waiter should be used as fish bait.<br \/>\nLike the Wicked Queen, beautiful but evil.<br \/>\nFood [is] is served as cold as the faux-stone pillars, and as slowly as the Romans advancing over the Dolomites in a particularly harsh winter.<br \/>\nIf you were on fire, they wouldn&#8217;t even throw a drink on you.<br \/>\nFood is icky, tables are sticky, waitress has a hickey, stay home if you&#8217;re picky.<br \/>\nShould be renamed Barfing Dog.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_01_01_archive.html#8748809\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zagats is a customer-survey-based restaurant guide printed in most cities. It generally does a good job of giving you a heads-up about good restaurants, bad restaurants, and those in-between. 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