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> It’s basically a website that returns reviews that reference a specific menu item regarding a specific restaurant.

The more fundamental problem with reviews is:

A) People have shit taste in food (grandpa who can't taste salt anymore and the family in BFE where every Sunday dinner is at IHop shouldn't be reviewing food)

B) Food is inconsistent

Health Department reviews of restaurants however, is a great indicator of quality and care.

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An even more fundamental problem is in trying to judge something completely subjective like how good food tastes.

I assume you believe you have good taste in food and I very well might find what you think is good to be terrible. It is not impossible the majority finds what you think is good to be terrible too.

My experience is that the only way to know if I like a dish is to eat it and reviews are completely useless.

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