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Hello, and welcome to PublicRestaurtantCritic.com. The purpose of this website is to basically vent frustrations over crappy service and crappy food... that you paid for with your hard earn cash.
The genesis of this project started when I was eating a couple of days before Christmas '07 at a Logan's Roadhouse (ground zero of this website), and the service was just crappy. The waiter was not bad, he was just trying to do his job, but the general management and food was just atrocious. My family and I were not happy, but we really could not complain to the waiter, it wasn't his fault, and we could not complain to the manager, he couldn't change the past. Basically, we did not want to complain because, at that point in our meal, after we had sat through horrible service and already received our food (complete with previously frozen celery sticks and two orders of the same plate that somehow had different foods on them), complaining would not have helped at all. I was kinda pissed off that we had such a lousy time at Logan's, because people go out to dinner to get taken care of, not shit on -- restaurants are in the hospitality industry afterall. As I was leaving Logan's, I wished there was a website where I could go to post my complaints on a public forum, to let people know that Logan's was a crappy place to eat. I thought to myself, in my ideal world, there would be such a website. Since I couldn't find such a website, I decided to create my own. The project of this website is for people, the general public just like you reading this right now, to write in and share your feelings about the restaurants you frequent and eat at. You can write in a complaint about a certain restaurant, or you can write in a letter of praise for a favorite restaurant, to let other people know that that restaurant is worth checking out. The goal: To create a database based off of users' submissions to tell people which restaurants they should go to, and, most importantly, which restaurants they should avoid. To submit your own contribution, simply send an e-mail to HeadPublicRestaurantCritic@gmail.com with the following: 1.) A rating: Great (awesome service and food), Good (liked it), Satisfactory (decent service and food, but would go there again nevertheless), or Sucks (bad service and food; horrible experience, would not go there again). 2.) A description of why you think this restaurant deserves the rating you gave it. 3.) Pictures: At least one picture of your receipt (to ensure that you actually ate at the restaurant you are writing about, and maybe some extra pictures such as a picture of the meal and the outside building (camera phones are probably the easiest to use)). Again, the goal of this site is to not only vent your frustrations, but also to praise restaurants that need more publicity. One of the underlying hopes of this site is to build a database of great, small restaurants that people should visit that they might not have known about otherwise. Please, write in and help me build this database. As we get contributions, each state, and eventually each city, will have its own page with their own restaurants listed (hell, maybe we'll even make this international), so that anybody in any city will have a public resource to help them decide which restaurants to eat at and which ones to avoid. So please, write in to HeadPublicRestaurantCritic@gmail.com and lets get this site going. In the end, either one of two things will happen. 1.) This site will become of a mecca of restaurant information, with honest reviews and listings of those great hole-in-the-wall and mom-and-pop diners. 2.) This site will become a chronicle of just me posting reviews of all the restaurants I eat at hoping to get this site off the ground. Either option is fine by me.
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Latest Reviews
Austin, TX 78701 (512) 322-5131 |
| I tried the weekday lunch buffet at Clay Pit and it marked the third time that I have eaten Indian food. The first time was at a friend's wedding, the second was at that same friend's house, and now the third at a restaurant. The buffet was smaller than I had expected, but was overall good. I only managed to eat one plate because I got full and believed that had I gotten a second plate, while getting more bang for my buck, I would have felt like shit for the rest of the day. As for the particular items that I ate, I have no idea what the fuck they're called, they just looked good, so I got some and ate them (that's what the pictures are for). |
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Austin, TX 78745-1411 (512) 892-1800 |
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Is it wrong to go to a buffet on Valentine's Day night? If it is, I don't want to know.
So tonight I went to Buffet Palace, a place I've been wanting to check out for a while now. In the past I've ranted about how I hate buffets and their all-you-can-eat/stuff-your-fucking-face mentalities, but I've since soften to their enjoy-a-wide-variety-of-foods-you-never-eat-together-in-one-sitting mentality. My main draw to this place was the promise of an awesome sushi buffet, but, as it turns out, sushi buffets are never as great as you imagine. The sushi here was sufferable, but I soon found my way to their other foods, like baked mussels and some sort of crawfish etouffe (if that's the proper name), and chicken wings and other stuff. I also had some prawns, but they were not shelled and were sticky and a bitch to de-shell, so I was a bit ashamed when the waitress came by towards the end and saw that we hadn't eaten all of the food that we had picked up, like the unshelled prawns, but fuck it, they already had my money. Buffet Palace wasn't all that great, but for the price, around 10 bucks or so per person, it wasn't so bad. Plus, it raised my spirits to see a bunch of couples on dates together on fucking Valentine's Day dining at Buffet Palace. What a bunch of losers. |
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Austin, TX 78723 (512) 451-6555 |
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This trip to Texas Land and Cattle was awesome, if only for the fact that I got two baked potatoes.
You see, a friend invited me to go to the restaurant with him, and I had a $10 gift card to the place that had come in the mail, so I went along. I ended up ordering a ten dollar chicken fried steak plate, which came with two sides. Now, the restaurant's menu lists the side items available, and their prices if you want to order them on their own, and the baked potato is one of, if not THE, most expensive side items. But I really like the baked potatoes, so I asked the waiter if I could just have two baked potatoes for my two side items. I was expecting the waiter to give me some bullshit that that wasn't allowed, but he was just like, "sure." Which was awesome... ...until I got my plate, which only had one baked potato, which I immediately brought to the attention of the waiter, and I was a bit worried that someone in the back was calling my bullshit and not allowing me to have two baked potatoes as my side items, but the waiter was really apologetic, said "my bad", and quickly got me my second baked potato, which was fucking awesome. I LOVE baked potatoes, and they came loaded at no extra cost, FUCK YOU APPLEBEE'S! Then it came time to pay. My dinner mates and I split the bill according to what we had, and I owed $10.81 with tax, so I gave the $10 gift card to the waiter expecting him to come back with a check for the .81 cents, which I would pay off on my credit card with a few dollars tip added. But the waiter comes back having closed out my bill, telling me they just took the $10 gift card and wouldn't charge me for the rest (I guess it probably wasn't worth it to them to charge me .81 cents), and this was all cool, but then I had to tell the waiter that I didn't have any cash and couldn't tip him, (I was going to tip via credit card), but then my friend saved the day and told me and the waiter that he would pay for my tip on his bill, so it all worked out just dandy. |
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Austin, TX 78701 (512) 478-3281 |
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I have taken it upon myself to sample all of Thundercloud Subs' semi-weekly specials...
The special this semi-week was the tuna sub... which was just kind of boring. |
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Austin, TX 78751 (512) 454-5827 |
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I went to Quality Seafood with some friends. For the longest time, I didn't know this place was a restaurant -- I had always assumed it was a seafood market, which it is, but it's also a restaurant, hot damn. I got a plate of grilled snapper that came with two sides, of which I choose the fried okra and macaroni and cheese. This was the first time I've ever knowingly had snapper, and it's good. Also, we went on a Tuesday, on which they have two dollar draft beer, which was icing on the cake.
The only problems that I noticed with this place are 1.) the long wait to order (this place is too small for its popularity), and 2.) their macaroni and cheese, which was good, but which should have been called spaghetti and cheese. |
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N. McAllen, TX 78504 (956) 631-7344 |
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On December 23rd, I went out with my parents and brother to Logan's Roadhouse in McAllen, Texas. There was the usual wait, but things started to go down hill when we were seated. The waiter was nice, but incompetent -- the real problem was the food and overall service.
1.) My dad ordered a bowl of chili as his entree, but as we were being served our food, the waiter apologized and informed us that they were out of chili, as, let me state again, we were being served out food. The waiter should have told us they were out of chili as he was taking our orders or shortly thereafter. Granted, the waiter might not have known himself that they were out of chili, but someone, a cook at least, should have notified him when they got our orders. 2.) My mom ordered an appetizer platter, which included celery sticks to compliment the buffalo wings, but the celery sticks were DECOMPOSING. Either they had been frozen or they were old, but the were turning to gloo. 3.) In place of the non-existent chili, my dad ordered an appetizer platter, just as my mom had did. The appetizer is supposed to come with 3 different items (my mom's did) but my dad only got 2 different items. The waiter did not say why, so we had to ask why, when we had ordered 2 of the same plates, they come back looking different. The waiter said that they ran out of one of the items, which is understandable (somewhat), but unacceptable in relation to the shitty service we also received from the restaurant as a whole. Overall, I will never eat at a Logan's Roadhouse ever again. The waiter apologized for the service and food saying that they had just finished serving a big party, explaining why some of the food was out of stock, but still, its a restaurant, and they are supposed to be prepared for almost anything. Shitty service and shitty food equals a bad review. No more Logan's for me, ever. |