The world of game reviews is often difficult to navigate. Everyone uses different scores, and a large emphasis is placed on the single score given to games by Metacritic , a review-aggregation site.
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Game reviews on Metacritic: why we avoid inclusion
For restaurant and small business owners a bad review in the local paper was bad enough. Now they have to worry about bad reviews online.
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How Online Reviews are Affecting Local Businesses
As I was growing up, I learned the story of Ritchie Valens (Ricardo Valenzuela) for obvious reasons (of Mexican descent, Ritchie popularized “La Bamba”, a Mexican song that is originally from Veracruz, but that Valens remixed to a rock-and-roll kind of beat), but I’ll be fully honest in admitting that I had no clue who Buddy Holly was. For those who are as misinformed as I was, Buddy Holly died in the same plane crash that took Valens’ life. But his claim to fame was much larger than that
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Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (@TheArtsClub)
MEALS ON WHEELS — Well, more cupcakes. From a truck. Enter Cupcakes aGoGo which launched this weekend on Abbot Kinney, according to Grub Street
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EaterWire: Cupcakes aGoGo, The Bruery’s 2nd Birthday Party, New Unnamed Downtown Resto
Last night The James Beard Foundation announced the winners of the 2010 James Beard Foundation Media & Book Awards. Congratulations all around! Highlights from this year include: · TV Food Personality: Andrew Zimmern · Television Segment: ABC News Nightline · Food Blog: Serious Eats · Cookbook of the Year: The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews · Newspaper Food Section: The Washington Post · M.F.K
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Awards Season: Winners: 2010 James Beard Foundation Media & Book Awards
One of my favourite places to eat within walking distance of my office – in fact, come to think of it, the only decent place to eat within walking distance of my office, is 32 Great Queen Street. It’s a lovely, buzzy place with charming staff and tasty, uncomplicated food and I’ve never had a bad meal there.
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The Canton Arms, Stockwell
Volcano Nachos From Taco Bel I’m generally a fan of anything that involves dipping, scooping or the layering of foods on another food for eating purposes. It’s interactive, and something in my obese brain makes me think I’m eating more food than I really am.
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Were Back 
– NEW Volcano Nachos From Taco Bel
Mien Tay Battersea is a wonderful restaurant, serving spectacular food at miniscule prices, with staff so smiley and warm you want to take them home with you. It would be a wonderful restaurant anywhere in London, of course, but as I’ve mentioned before, its location on Lavender Hill is nothing short of a miracle, and has probably single-handedly raised the nearby house prices to a statistically significant degree. But it’s too easy to forget that back where it all began for Vietnamese food in London, on the Kingsland Road in the East End, there are a selection of restaurants who regularly give Mien Tay a run for its money, and fuel the virtuous circle of competition and higher standards that we’ve come to expect from this most exciting and satisfying of cuisines.
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Viet Grill, Kingsland Road
Businesses sue online review site Criticism of Yelp by businesses is mounting as more allege in lawsuits that the online consumer review site offered to manipulate reviews in exchange for advertising.
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Yelp gets bad reviews of its own (Chicago Tribune)
Yelp, one of the most popular Web sites that let people post opinions about restaurants, shops and local services, is being sued by several small businesses that claim they’ve been pressured to advertise on the site in exchange for getting negative reviews squashed.
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Businesses sue Yelp over manipulated reviews (MSNBC)
In recent months some websites have been accusing Roger Ebert of becoming overly generous in his reviews of films that many other critics have given the back of their hands….
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Gerard Butler – Movie Reviews The Bounty Hunter (ContactMusic)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid may seem like the least likely of the new films to succeed at the box office this weekend, but it’s drawing the most enthusiastic reviews. Roger Ebert in…
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Chicago – Movie Reviews Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (ContactMusic)
THE ALLEGATIONS: Since late February, at least three lawsuits seeking class-action status have been filed against Yelp, a site that asks people to review businesses. The cases claim that reviews on Yelp are manipulated, depending on which companies pay to advertise on the site and which don’t.
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Summary Box: Yelp under fire as local businesses allege it manipulates reviews for ad sales (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The first of the Stieg Larsson Millenium trilogy films, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, has opened to resounding reviews from US critics and audiences not known for cherishing obscure subtitled films from Scandinavia.
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‘Millennium’ film opens to rousing US reviews (The Local)
Acting on some twitter intel last night, a group of Eater operatives in the vicinity of The Gutter in Williamsburg headed on down to South 6th Street to confirm that yes Zak Pelaccio’s Fatty ‘Cue quietly opened to the public last night, about six days ahead of schedule (or two years behind schedule, depending on who’s counting). Not only is it open, but it looks like it’s going to be the Southside neighborhood-maker many had hoped it would be
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Certified Open: Fatty ‘Cue is Open to the Public and Worth the Two Year Wait
Just heard from the Dining@Large lurker who tipped me off recently to Pigs’ Feet Yat Gaw Mein . Lurker writes: “With the warm weather upon us, I have a craving for pulled pork bbq. “Trouble is, every place I’ve seen in Baltimore features the western North Carolina style (tomato based bbq sauce).
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Looking for true ‘cue
From Whole Paycheck to Whole Food Stamp. There’s provocative story in Salon headlined, ” Hipsters on food stamps .” Subhed: “They’re young, they’re broke, and they pay for organic salmon with government subsidies. Got a problem with that?” The story happens to open with two, young, underemployed Baltimoreans who use their food stamps at the farmers’ market and Whole Foods.
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Foodies on food stamps
Midtown Lunch reports that Kyochon , the $2 million Midtown flagship of the Korean fried chicken chain, is currently closed for retraining . Says their tipster: “they’re closed for the next two days to retrain all of the employees due to the poor reviews they’ve received.
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Retooling: Initial Crap Reviews Force Kyochon to Close for Retraining
Not content to stiff wine lovers who’d like to order vino legally from out-of-state vineyards, Maryland lawmakers are considering ways to stiff waiters. A bill before the General Assembly would outlaw the automatic tip that some restaurants tack onto the tab, at least for parties smaller than 10, the Baltimore Business Journal reports today. Del
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Campaign slogan: will work for tips
If you overdid it last night celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, I’m not sure you’ll feel like cooking a big breakfast of spicy sirloin sliders and breakfast burritos. But the folks at Tabasco and chef Laurent Tourondel of New York’s BLT Market say that’s just the thing for the morning after.
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Cures for the "Irish flu"