Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Best Italian: Olive Garden
Best Coffee: Starbucks
Best Lunch: Panera
Best Casual Runner Up: Applebee's
Best Seafood Runner Up: Red Lobster
Best Chinese Runner Up: P.F. Chang's
I'm starting to rethink this whole Foodie Mecca thing...
READ MORE: http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/sections/social/food/readers-poll/2011-readers-poll.html
CapCityAleCo.
Grandview
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I don't know if one should gauge the best restaurants in Columbus by a ThisWeek community newspaper. I've never even seen one. When the dispatch, alive!, or Other Paper comes in with a list like this we should all be worried...
BreakfastwithNick
Clintonville
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Oh my goodness... Bob Evans and First Watch as our best breakfasts?! See, this is why I wrote a book.
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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CapCityAleCo. said:
I don't know if one should gauge the best restaurants in Columbus by a ThisWeek community newspaper.
No, but I do think it is a direct indicator of preferences of their largely suburban readership.
Occasionally I hear people around here sounding a bit jaded that folks talk *too much* about Jeni's or Liz Lessner, but reader surveys like this one are a regular reminder to me that preferences for unique local dining are still in the minority on a larger regional level.
lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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There's some hope buried in there:
Best Diner: Cap City*
Runner-up: Starliner DinerBest Ice Cream: Jeni's*
Runner-up: Graeter's*Best Hot Dogs: Dirty Frank's
Runner-up:Two Mad Dogs
Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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saywhat said:
There are in fact a number of locals on the list......Walker, with all due respect, I think you may have selectively highlighted those you are not in agreement with.
LOL...I don't care how selectively you highlight the list, Olive Garden, Subway, Red Lobster, and Applebee's shouldn't be on a best of list for anything.
NerosNeptune
Goodale Park
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Is ThisWeek kind of like The Onion?
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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saywhat said:
There are in fact a number of locals on the list......Walker, with all due respect, I think you may have selectively highlighted those you are not in agreement with.
You are exactly right. I was pointing out what was wrong with the list.
And just so that I'm being clear... I'm not in disagreement with other people's personal preferences, nor am I anti-chain. I enjoy Panera, Starbucks and Subway from time to time. I wouldn't even consider any of those places to be bad. But they're far from *the best* that our city (or any city) has to offer.
CapCityAleCo.
Grandview
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Walker said:
No, but I do think it is a direct indicator of preferences of their largely suburban readership.Occasionally I hear people around here sounding a bit jaded that folks talk *too much* about Jeni's or Liz Lessner, but reader surveys like this one are a regular reminder to me that preferences for unique local dining are still in the minority on a larger regional level.
I'm not going to lie, the picture was taken out of context, but only to illustrate that there is only one location of ThisWeek close to downtown establishments. If the papers aren't widely available where there are particular restaurants I don't think it should be counted as a comprehensive "Best Restaurants" list for Columbus.
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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CapCityAleCo. said:
I'm not going to lie, the picture was taken out of context, but only to illustrate that there is only one location of ThisWeek close to downtown establishments. If the papers aren't widely available where there are particular restaurants I don't think it should be counted as a comprehensive "Best Restaurants" list for Columbus.
Perhaps it's not the best overall indicator. I was being sarcastically over-dramatic with my original comment about Columbus not being a foodie mecca. ;)
I do think it's a good display of the cultural divide that exists between our suburban and urban areas though. I'm not the type of person to point and laugh though at this type of thing. I'd rather work harder to expose everyone to all that the city has to offer and would hope that everyone can make their own personal choices based on all options available, and not just the safest, closest or most convenient choices.
That being said, I disagree with your point about availability of this publication being lacking in urban areas being a factor in the choices people make in these types of surveys. It's very easy and a very common thing to travel around the region to eat. Everyone makes special trips 10, 20 sometimes 30 miles from home for specific restaurants on specific occasions. Someone who lives in the burbs has no reason not to enjoy Rigsby's or G. Michael's or Surly Girl. Inversely, people who live in the urban core of the city have no excuse not to venture out to dine at Starliner, Kihachi or Shaw's Inn.
CapCityAleCo.
Grandview
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Walker said:
Perhaps it's not the best overall indicator. I was being sarcastically over-dramatic with my original comment about Columbus not being a foodie mecca. ;)I do think it's a good display of the cultural divide that exists between our suburban and urban areas though. I'm not the type of person to point and laugh though at this type of thing. I'd rather work harder to expose everyone to all that the city has to offer and would hope that everyone can make their own personal choices based on all options available, and not just the safest, closest or most convenient choices.
That being said, I disagree with your point about availability of this publication being lacking in urban areas being a factor in the choices people make in these types of surveys. It's very easy and a very common thing to travel around the region to eat. Everyone makes special trips 10, 20 sometimes 30 miles from home for specific restaurants on specific occasions. Someone who lives in the burbs has no reason not to enjoy Rigsby's or G. Michael's or Surly Girl. Inversely, people who live in the urban core of the city have no excuse not to venture out to dine at Starliner, Kihachi or Shaw's Inn.
That's fair.
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