The other acceptable option
I just couldn't let that quote from the back of the new Zagat survey 2008 go. For those of you who didn't read my entry yesterday, the quotation read:
As for food, Zagat is the only acceptable option. --Baltimore Sun
Naturally I feel that I, too, am an acceptable option, and my newspaper should agree. I decided I had to type a few keywords into the computer archives use all my reportorial skills, finely honed through years of experience, to find out where and when the quote had appeared in the paper.
Ha. Intrepid reporter Melissa Harris said it in a story about visiting New York that appeared in our Travel section last year:
As for food, the 2006 Zagat Survey guide to New York restaurants ($13.95) is the only acceptable option.
I feel better now.
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See, now I've heard that since Zagat uses the opinions of rank amateurs to formulate their ratings, that it's really not a good way to judge a restaurant. So I avoid them like the plague. I prefer to rely on local restaurant critics for my information.
Posted by: Kathy | September 6, 2007 4:24 PM