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Often the primary answer is photos. My experience with Google reviews having enough photos to find the dishes I'm considering is much more hit or miss.

But your question is fair. I often ask it myself as I'm exiting the site.

The pictures are generally better on yelp because they usually come from eaters rather than the restaurant themselves.

> the reviews on Yelp are largely fake

Do you have a source for this?

There are a mountain of lawsuits with Yelp over fake reviews.

This is a decent post, as it lists the outcome of a long-standing lawsuit (Yelp won) but also links out to several other lawsuits filed over the years about fake reviews on the site.

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/03/yelp-finally-d...