"jmcquown" > wrote in message >...
> Howard Kaikow wrote:
> > "Howard Kaikow" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> I usually rely on well known travel guides such as the Mobil Travel
> >> Guide for initial recommendations.
> (snip)
> > I take back what I said.
> >
> > I visited the Mobil Travel Guide web site yesterday.
> > Checked for restauant listings in my area.
> > Only two were listed, one was highly overrrated, the other was highly
> > underrated, so I question the quality of their reports.
> > Also, why only two restaurants? Does a restaurant have to pay to be
> > listed?
>
> This is what I find wrong with sites like zagat (which used to be free but
> now requires you to subscribe for a price) and roadfood and similar sites.
> You are generally reading what people have rated and if they haven't been
> there then you get no info and often, as you mentioned, no listing.
>
> I can judge for myself, I was just looking for some ideas. We do normally
> ask at the hotel desk but there's nothing better than a personal
> recommendation. When we were in Minneapolis working the Stone Arch
> Festival, rfc'r 'sd' recommended a number of places and we had the
> opportunity to eat at one of them and also to buy some nice cheeses and
> wines at Surdyk's. A good time was had by all
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Jill


Jill, don't eat Maid-Rites in the Quad Cities - Newton & Marshalltown
are the only places to eat them - otherwise, the taste won't be
"right." ;-)

Tenderloin sandwiches are so easy to make - ask your
meat-market/supermarket butcher to run some pork loin slices through
the tenderizer a couple times - I bread mine with beaten egg and then
very, very fine cracker crumbs. "Authentic" ones are bigger than the
plate they're served on ;-).

The Iowa State Fair this year has two new on-a-stick foods: meatballs
(those would be tasty) and chocolate-covered waffles. Hmmmm.

N.