If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.
I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander aro… - Robert Sietsema
I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander aro…
- Robert Sietsema
If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife. - Robert Sietsema
If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.
I pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that. - Robert Sietsema
I pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that.
There are a number of ways you can find out if a restaurant is good or not: just the way it looks can give you all these visual clues: is it well mai… - Robert Sietsema
There are a number of ways you can find out if a restaurant is good or not: just the way it looks can give you all these visual clues: is it well mai…
Where food trucks are concerned, nothing's better than having a whole flock of them at one location. Competition not only improves the quality of the… - Robert Sietsema
Where food trucks are concerned, nothing's better than having a whole flock of them at one location. Competition not only improves the quality of the…
I love African food, I love Italian food, but I rarely eat Italian out because it's so easy to make at home. On the other hand, unless you have speci… - Robert Sietsema
I love African food, I love Italian food, but I rarely eat Italian out because it's so easy to make at home. On the other hand, unless you have speci…
You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops. - Robert Sietsema
You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.
If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay be… - Robert Sietsema
If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay be…
If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night. - Robert Sietsema
If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night.
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