r/restaurants

Please pasuggest naman kung saan masarap kumain ng lunch and dinner for a week.

I just noticed a bartender picked the dirty plates and served beer right after. Is it common to do that? What the common guidelines for washing hands after picking the plates? I’m just curious.

Hey everyone! My friend and I are going to Vegas in July and would like to get your thoughts, feedback and vote on which among the two restaurants you’d recommend? We both love steak and also normally order the off the menu specialty steaks (like wagyu, etc..)

Thanks in advanced!!

Looking for hidden gems in San Francisco without breaking the bank? I'd love to hear your recommendations for great restaurants that won't drain your wallet. Whether you're craving authentic cuisine from around the world: Thai, Mexican, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Indian, or anything in between, I'm always on the hunt for spots that deliver exceptional food at reasonable prices. What are your favorite affordable eats in the city? Drop your suggestions below: tell me the restaurant name, neighborhood, what they do best, and why it's worth the visit. Let's build a list of the best-kept secrets that prove you don't need to spend a fortune for outstanding meals.

Ate a a fancy steakhouse in Rockville. Smallish dining room. Mostly booths and tables for 2 or 4. Several tables were pushed together for a gathering of 12 20-30 somethings having a really loud and ruckus conversation including howling and laughing really loud. Couldn’t hear ourselves over their noise. Other tables were staring at them and obviously upset, too. Management wouldn’t say anything to them. Offered to move us to the far corner. But it’s a small dining room and the noise would have carried. I got up and asked them (angrily, to be honest) to tone it down. Several other guests thanked me. On the way out, a different server from ours thanked me, too. Just a terrible experience and a waste of $$$$.

Hi everyone! I am looking for recommendations of places and if anyone knows of small private rooms to accommodate max 30 people that offer food and drinks but also at the same time does not break the bank. I know some restaurants have their main floor and then like a room separate. Any good recommendations?

Fyi it’s just for celebrating post wedding ceremony.

Thank you!

i have got an idea to build a webapp like linktree for resturants to showcase their menu. that way there is no need to build custom websites. qhat do you think of this idea. How much should i actually charge for it?

lately it feels like every time I open instagram or tiktok, there's a new "must-try" restaurant list... but a lot of it just feels like ads or paid promos. I kind of want my own list of places that I actually liked, instead of whatever the algorithm is pushing.

Right now I just drop pins on google maps, but it's starting to feel messy and hard to remember why I saved something in the first place. Ideally I'd love a way to jot down a quick note or mini review for myself (what I ordered, what I liked/didn't like, who I went with, that kind of thing), and then share that list easily with friends when they ask for recs.

Do you just google maps? spreadsheets? notes app? some specific app or system?

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In the last 3 years I’ve been more and more disappointed by how easily Michelin stars are being given out to restaurants.

Ive had at least 4x 2 and 3 star Michelin restaurant experiences in the last year where they completely overcharge for an average experience. One of the restaurants in New York, I was served bland and tasteless boiled vegetables for 6 courses.

They just don’t seem to carry the same value they used to. Can anyone relate?

Run a small marketing agency. 18 restaurant clients between India and NJ. Last quarter we spent around 12K total on Meta ads across all of them. Small operators mostly. Some at 50 a month, some at 800.

Posting this because every Meta ads thread for restaurants is either an agency promoting something or a one off case study where someone got 10x ROAS in week 2. Both are useless if you actually run accounts at scale.

Here is the honest version.

What worked

Lookalike audiences built on instagram engagers were about 40 percent cheaper per result than interest based targeting. Not even close.

Static carousel of the menu beat reels for direct response. Reels got more views and almost no orders. Took us three months to accept that.

Order online objective worked for delivery heavy spots. Messages objective worked for dine in. Mixing them killed both.

What burned cash

Boost post button. Just do not. Algorithm gives you the worst placements and the most expensive impressions.

Conversions objective with less than 50 events a week. Algorithm has nothing to learn from. Stay on traffic or reach until volume is there.

Targeting foodies as an interest. That word means absolutely nothing to Meta.

What I am still confused about

Same creative format works for a restaurant in NJ and flops for a similar restaurant in Hyderabad. Same cuisine bracket, same ad spend, same offer. Is it the algorithm reading local engagement differently. Is it image format preference by region. Genuinely have no theory yet.

Curious what people running ads for cafes and dessert places are seeing. The unit economics are completely different from full service and I think the playbook should be too, but I have not figured out what the playbook should be.

I’ve worked as a server and bartender, so I understand how much tips, sections, and management decisions affect people’s income. Because of that, when I tip someone, I want the money going to the person who actually created the experience — not disappearing into a giant pool.

I was out with a group recently and planned to tip extra on top of the auto-grat. The server explained that the gratuity gets split across the floor, so very little of it actually goes to her personally. She and the bartender were exceptional, so I ended up getting her Venmo and tipping her directly later when I ran into them outside of work.

I understand tipping out support staff, but I also think strong servers and bartenders should benefit from the experience they create. At this point I honestly want to know — what restaurants still let servers keep their own tips instead of pooling everything?

So my son made a reservation at a restaurant I’d been to once years ago, that I remembered having really good food in a really cool setting, a beautiful old stone castle, a fortress like building with lush elegant landscaping. I checked out the website, but didn’t see anything about a Mother’s Day brunch and he made reservations for 3 o’clock; he too hadn’t seen anything on the website about a Mother’s Day brunch, so we all thought we were going to a full service dinner.

When we arrived on time for our reservation, they asked for payment upfront of $100 per person and then added on a ten percent kitchen surcharge in addition to tax of course. This was a complete surprise, not only that it was a brunch, but also that it was so pricey. I am a pretty picky eater, and I’m not a fan of buffets in general, but I agreed because we basically had very few decent options at 3 o’clock on Mother’s Day.

The little bit I ate was good, even though I got the last dregs of the prime rib and they even gave me the end crust which I found to be inedible, but the horseradish sauce was delicious and the small edible slice of meat was actually enough for me since I eat very little. I also had a scoop of plain unremarkable mashed potatoes and a salad with blue cheese dressing which was very tasty, but there were no croutons, which I would have liked; they did have freshly ground black pepper. Unfortunately my roll was stale and the various desserts I tried were mediocre. They started cleaning up and closing down the restaurant not long after we got there at about 5 o’clock, I suppose.

They also had king crab legs,
pork ribs, meatloaf, and lamb, lobster pasta, and lots of breakfast stuff, but they were out of pancake batter. The onion soup wasn’t good at all, according to the others. They offered ramen, and the small sushi bar offered only two types of sushi and shared half the table with the ho-hum desserts. All in all, it was quite small, and very compact, just your basic low budget Everyday Sunday buffet and we all agreed it was about a 6 on a scale of 10; everyone said the desserts were mediocre, and the mimosas were made with the cheapest champagne while the pineapple and cranberry juices were brought to the table in small disposable cups. For the price it was a disappointment for all of us.

We’ve been to the Huntington Gardens Mother’s Day buffet on several occasions and it is $100 per person now, but it’s worth it with lavish displays on rows and rows of buffet tables absolutely laden with fresh seafood, oysters, you name it, fresh omelettes made to order, fabulous desserts galore, and impeccable service. It’s about 10 times bigger and more extravagant than what we experienced yesterday. The mimosas are served by the elegant and proper wait staff. Plus one has access to the gorgeous gardens, all for a paltry $100 per person; paltry in comparison to yesterday‘s disappointing experience which left me feeling ripped off.

So would I be the AH if I put a negative review about the restaurant, basically saying what I’ve said here?