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

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 pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that.

- 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…

- 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…

- Robert Sietsema

If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night.

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- Robert Sietsema