re: Advocate hammers the Melting Pot

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It has this now?

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If Miss Piggy was doing her job and researching new, inventive restaurants and bars and providing decent reviews, this wouldn't be a question that would need an answer.

Taking a swipe at someone’s weight when it’s utterly irrelevant is the epitome of low class.

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you seem waaay to emotionally involved in a newspaper food review

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This isn't the first time the Advocate is anti-business.
The Advocate is careless in how they report and the damage they inflict on local businesses.

They've run businesses into the ground in small towns, just to put out salacious, unfounded gossip.

The media shaping a false narrative and hurting locally owned business pisses me off, and if it doesn't piss you off, it probably should.

So its anti business to give a bad review? Should they only give false glowing reviews?

What about bad movie reviews? Is that anti business too?

False narrative? The place is garbage

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You realize that's now how this works, right? There's an editor that assigns restaurant reviews months in advance to about half a dozen different writers.

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Agreed. The editor is to blame as well, for not editing the reviewer's lame writing.

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So its anti business to give a bad review?

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They can write and publish any review they want, but their sophomoric writing is not immune from criticism..
As for a false narrative, my point is that they will name a business and put the business on blast when a business owner is wrongly accused of an unrelated issue.

Bad writing. Bad editing. Bad leadership.

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Fondue is freaking great.

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I mean, it's okay. Great is a stretch

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Its a traditional food in the Alps.

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We ain't in the Alps baw

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and it was a ton of food

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The Melting Pot has never been associated with a ton of food. Scraps of bread, meat, and seafood to dunk in boiling liquid isn't a meal.

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Its not hard to make, but it is a lot of prep work kinda like sushi. Its not the worst thing to pay for is all I'm saying

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Sushi is on a whole next stratosphere from fondue. Sushi is an art. Fondue is dumping shite in a pot and heating it up. Takes zero skill.

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We make it at home occasional with our kids. They love it. Dip some ham, apple, decent bread, etc. into the cheese. Mom and dad enjoy with wine or beer. Something different and fun as a family.

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Agreed that it would be fun for a family at home. At a restaurant...awful.

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They fact that they even reviewed The Melting Pot is so lol. And that write up looks like something you'd see on here.

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for real

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A time in the early-to-mid 2000s when there weren’t a dozen more interesting options for a food-focused night out.

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I would say this is my favorite sentence, but it isn’t a sentence.

It took years of complaining to get The Advocate to write critical reviews, they have just started doing it in the last couple of years. For eons prior it was just Chamber of Commerce reviews, "this is a wonderful dining experience", "featuring a medley of traditional ingredients", and sending reviewers who would not eat raw fish to sushi restaurants. The reviewers would go on and on about the carpet, the wallpaper, the ambience, the friendly waiter, anything but the Sysco café food.


By all means, if a place stinks and charges a fortune for crap, say so, it's what a food reviewer is supposed to do. People aren't sheep, if they give a bad review to a place I like, that doesn't mean I'm not going to continue to eat there.