Yelp is the website that I love to hate and today it is driving me extra, extra insane. First things first, I finally opened an account and probably my only review ever is the review I just wrote of Vientiane because it was driving me nuts that Dane H.'s review is often the top one. Sorry DH, I often like reading your reviews and I am sorry that I called you a dumbass when you first posted that, but I think it is absolutely inaccurate. If you are bored of me talking about yelp you should go read the critique of Lohan's letter on Go Fug Yourself it's really funny) I present you with some new reviews from today.
Here is a review of the La Bou in West Sac:
I had a really bad experience at this La Bou. No details needed. I would not eat here again. ever.
This is a really bad review. No details needed. I will not read this review again. ever.
And then K.F. goes off on the alleged attitude of staff and customers at Peets. I went there twice this week. I go there from 1 to 5 times every single week and I have yet to ever receive an iota of attitude. Sometimes the workers are harried, but they are always nice. But I guess I should just listen to the Armeniac's lecture and bite my tongue. Too late though I already wrote this and my backspacing finger is tired.
That's all for now on the driving me nuts. Don't feel compelled to defend it if you love it because obviously I read it all the time. The only other thing that has been twisting me up is trying to figure out the secret identity of this reviewer. He cracks me up because I already wrote about how I hate the "no msg" guy (that's his quote) (oops, looks like he changed his quote) who mostly reviews chains as to whether their food has msg. Well, this persons quote is "monosodium glutamate" and his/her pictures are all msg related, like the chemical structure of msg or a really funny new one of msg going straight to his dome. I have a suspicion but I don't know if it's true because whoever it is worked at Pieces.
>I finally opened an account and
ReplyDelete>probably my only review ever is the
>review I just wrote of Vientiane
>because it was driving me nuts that
>Dane H.'s review is often the top one.
I just read your Vientane review and Dane H.'s didn't come up on top. They're posted chronologically, with the latest one on top.
I read yelp a lot and find the reviews amusing but my biggest peeve has to be the multitude of ultra short, non-descriptive reviews of boring corporate chains written by UCD students. That's the common thread in these horribly written reviews: they're all writ by UCD students. I've ranted about this before but them kids is supposed to be our state's cream o'the crop--there must be a waiting list to get into UC's remedial English classes.
Yea, I've been wondering who "GG D." is too...
President,
Sacramento Appreciation Society of Sacramento
you happened to be involved in my speculating. have you ever referred to p.f. changs as a "banana restaurant" sir? you are under oath here.
ReplyDeletei totally agree on the ucd students, although it's kinda cute how stoked they are on crappy davis restaurants.
cream of the crop .....engineering students...
ReplyDeletenuff said.
No, I'm not the person behind GG D.'s reviews and I've never referred to p.f. changs as a "banana restaurant." I've never even eaten there.
ReplyDeleteIn his recent Los Jarritos review GG D. noted that the pepperpots of old have been replaced by granny, which is the same observation I actually posted here on Heckasac some time ago--maybe that's where your suspicions may have come from.
President,
Sacramento Appreciation Society of San Francisco
leon said:
ReplyDelete>cream of the crop .....engineering
>students...
>
>nuff said.
Yea, even Collgee writes better than those college students. But even engineering students oughts to be able to come up with halfway decent writing...
Love,
Collgee's English teacher
SASSF-I don't think you ARE ggd, I just thought you might know him/her, but I guess if that was true you would know who wrote it.
ReplyDelete>SASSF-I don't think you ARE ggd, I just
ReplyDelete>thought you might know him/her
Whoops...my reading comprehension aint up to snuff today.
You should post more reviews to yelp, even if you have to cut + paste some of 'em from your own site.
Pres,
SASSF
and when it comes to poor taste in food... back when I was a self-financed (thank you very much) UCD student, I used to think Wok n' Roll was the best place ... ever! I think money had something to do with that.
ReplyDeleteBut you still think it's the best name, right?
ReplyDelete-miller
Wok n' Roll!! Icky!!! I'm always a tad skeptical of a place which requires you to pass through the kitchen to go to the bathroom. I am sometimes charmed by this set-up but only if the food is good.
ReplyDeleteThe hotdogger on the other hand is pure gold. Best oven baked fries ever. And Zia's has some pretty good sandwiches although they're pricey.
I ate at that sushi place on G street once and my sashimi was still frozen in the middle. I lost the taste for raw tuna for a few weeks after that.
Lastly the giant sign on Hitomi which advertised a SPICY PORK BULGOGI used to crack me up every time I walked by it. Even after I tried bulgogi and liked it, the sign still made me laugh.
In closing you'd think a college town with the bucks that Davis has would support more delicious restaurants.
-moe
I've got attitude from Peetniks before. I figure it has to do with the hiring selection. At Starbucks, for instance, they select cheerful, bubbly women and gay men. Whereas, at Peet's, they look for people who are a little more hard-edged and sophisticated, hence the occational "attitude." The coffee is worth it, tho.
ReplyDeleteThe best baristas are those at Coffee Works. I had one the other day quoting lines from Shakespeare to me.
was it because you were ordering a grande pumpkin frappacino? j.k., really how did it manifest itself? a cocked eyebrow, a curled lip, a delicate sniff?
ReplyDelete>Whereas, at Peet's, they look for people
ReplyDelete>who are a little more hard-edged and
>sophisticated, hence the occational
>"attitude." The coffee is worth it, tho.
Mebbe that's why they hired Jake Filth to deliver their coffee (yea, he could be construed as a little "hard-edged" but don't apply the "sophisticated" moniker). He kept our household well stocked in beans...
Love,
Bancroft Rod-N-Gun Club (at the corner of San Pablo)
J.K.? You mean j.M.?
ReplyDeleteCome on, B, the pumpkin frap quip was a low blow!!
Maybe you exude such congeniality that nobody would dream of not making eye-contact with you or using a officious monotone with you.
Maybe you're a looker, so the sufferings of the plain masses don't apply to you.
I'm not saying snobbery is a big deal, and often it is confused with other things (a quiet manner, a person not feeling well), but let's not pretend it doesn't exist.
it probably is just because i'm fabulously attractive, but so that i can put myself in the mindset of the common folk i was asking for an example. for real. i didnt' think you really ordered a pumpkin frappucino. was it did order something they deemed lowbrow? how was the snobbery expressed? verbally, nonverbally? i get iced espresso every day which is a pretty dumb thing to order, especially in the middle of winter.
ReplyDeleteanswer me, was it did?
ReplyDeleteok, i'm on a bad roll here, I need to stop commenting before I read and also to proofread my comments, so, you are saying if I get this right that they didn't make eye contact and spoke in a monotone? Are you sure that you weren't being waited on by one of Peet's Vulcan employees, because that's just how they are (unless they're in Pon Farr and then watch out!)
ReplyDeletep.s.-which peets do you go to?
ReplyDeleteI don't know -- I just remember that this lady behind the counter was just really aloof and bitter-faced. I was joking with the guy brewing the coffee, and she was giving me a look that said, "don't make jokes around me." It wasn't that big a deal actually, and I don't even know why i remembered it.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, i'm not at all surprised that you never get attitude at Peet's, because in gneral people are nice.
My main point was that different business select (even if subconsciously) certain personality types based on their own image. Or maybe the workers simply feel compelled to live up to an expectation of behavior. For example, Wal-Mart and Macy's employees act very differently.
So you shouldn't be that surprised if the J.k. guy felt an air of snobbery.
Or maybe i'm totally off base and J.K., who is certainly not me, is a dude grappling with social anxiety disorder.
I go to the Peet's on fair oaks gnerally
Nothing wrong with iced espresso, Beckler, even in winter. I drink iced tea all year long, with the occasional iced coffee, even when it's 39 degrees out in a howling storm.
ReplyDeleteAll the snobby baristas of the big, big city made me cry so had to move all the way up here, where they're all friendly but incredibly, hair-raisingly stoned
I know the girl who posted about the La Bou in West Sac. I guess she found beetles in her salad and they acted like that happened all the time. I am not sure why she didn't explain in her yelp review.
ReplyDelete-Alisha
i love the la bou bettle salad! see, people are always just looking for something to complain about.
ReplyDeleted'oh, joke ruined by mispelling! thanks for solving the review mystery.
ReplyDeleteOnce I got a beatle in my salad but I just picked it out because it was only Ringo.
ReplyDeleteZing!
I'm a loft punk, and I prefer my salad more garagey -- with Pete Best beatles.
ReplyDeleteBecky,
ReplyDeleteI promise I'll try Vientiane again soon. I trust your reviews, and maybe they're worked out the kinks, but it was truly an awful experience. I'll let you know when I update my review--I'd actually remove it (I've been removing a few of my reviews lately--another story...) because it's pretty old, but I'll leave it for now since your review makes reference to it.
Have a nice holidays and maybe we'll meet face to face someday!
BTW, Midtown Monthly is my favorite local rag. They have such excellent taste in their home and design profiles. Sac Mag really sucks big time.
I don't think Loft means what you think it means.
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ReplyDeleteI think the loft means a giant apartment. A loft punk would mean, I like living in a loft to enjoy the urban Sactown. You think different?
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