To view or not to view......

That seems to be the question that popped into my head after trying to google a restaurant for directions. With the name and address information, a few dozen websites popped up offering their reviews of the place. I didn't even think about reading up on the reviews for the place as this particular venue was something that I had been seeking out for quite some time with its offering of foods familiar to my background tastes. So now that I have these sites in front of me what do i do????



First one, slammed the place, calling it nothing more than a glorified diner!!!! Another site praised it for its wide variety of "eastern european" delicacies, yet another one gave it a lukewarm praise. None of them came from a reputable website as Zagat or Yap but most of them were done on sites that rate hundreds of local places.

Hmmm so now what??? Do I ignore the rude bombardment with all these reviews that I didn't ask for and jot down the directions, or do I change my dinner plans? True, this is not a lifethreatening dilemma but it certainly left a somewhat bad taste in my mouth if you will. While I may not be the one to give in too much to the word of social marketing and hyped up reviews, I found myself changing my dinner plans for that night as I was planning a somewhat special night. I still have plans to visit that place and see for myself if you will, but the lesson learned here is if you are googling directions somewhere, ignore the reviews!