Comments on: FATE Guide http://www.saltshaker.net/20051216/fate-guide Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:59:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: dan http://www.saltshaker.net/20051216/fate-guide#comment-104 dan Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:38:01 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20051216/fate-guide#comment-104 Thanks Jerry, I'm glad you liked Cumaná! Yes, I did ask, and it's definitely why I include the search feature on the blog. I'd love to make the list itself more of a table format that can be re-ordered by any of those various categories, but it seems that blogging software doesn't really support that - I may just have to "bite the bullet" and make separate sub-pages that are identical lists but ordered in the various ways I mentioned - maybe just having them be invisible unless someone clicks on a link for "by neighborhood" or "by rating" or "by cuisine". Might be better to do it now while the list is manageable than wait until it gets really long... Thanks Jerry, I’m glad you liked Cumaná!

Yes, I did ask, and it’s definitely why I include the search feature on the blog. I’d love to make the list itself more of a table format that can be re-ordered by any of those various categories, but it seems that blogging software doesn’t really support that - I may just have to “bite the bullet” and make separate sub-pages that are identical lists but ordered in the various ways I mentioned - maybe just having them be invisible unless someone clicks on a link for “by neighborhood” or “by rating” or “by cuisine”. Might be better to do it now while the list is manageable than wait until it gets really long…

]]> By: Jerking http://www.saltshaker.net/20051216/fate-guide#comment-103 Jerking Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:30:59 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20051216/fate-guide#comment-103 As a fairly devoted reader - more on that in the next day or two - and now a visitor to BsAs, I've found your reviews very helpful, and not just in the restaurant category. Sometimes, as yesterday, one conjures up a "distant" memory. We (Czar and I) dropped in on Cumana at lunchtime...now, what was it that Saltshaker had said about this place? We couldn't remember directly, but I decided that in light of several columns you've written you must have tried both the Empanadas and the Locro. I decided on the Corn and Pumpkin empanada (I later read that this was a new mixture for you - you, and I, loved it. Locro was also a natural choice from all your writings - I'd never had one before. I had nothing to compare it to, therefore, but thought it was really good and then read how you thought it was one of the best in town. Right on, bro. It's a case of taking your recommendation after the fact. But to your question, I don't think there is one "best way" to list your restaurants. But thanks to the internet you can run lists and if I look up Recoleta/Barrio Norte I can find Cumana or Rigoletto etc. And also if I look up Locro or Empanada etc. I'm guessing that that would entail a lot of extra work, but hey, you asked. Bottom line: however you do it, it's useful. Some places I don't expect I'll get too near (as a non-resident, for now), but others might. I posed this as a comment in hopes others will expand upon it or add exertise I don't have. As a fairly devoted reader - more on that in the next day or two - and now a visitor to BsAs, I’ve found your reviews very helpful, and not just in the restaurant category. Sometimes, as yesterday, one conjures up a “distant” memory. We (Czar and I) dropped in on Cumana at lunchtime…now, what was it that Saltshaker had said about this place? We couldn’t remember directly, but I decided that in light of several columns you’ve written you must have tried both the Empanadas and the Locro. I decided on the Corn and Pumpkin empanada (I later read that this was a new mixture for you - you, and I, loved it. Locro was also a natural choice from all your writings - I’d never had one before. I had nothing to compare it to, therefore, but thought it was really good and then read how you thought it was one of the best in town. Right on, bro. It’s a case of taking your recommendation after the fact.
But to your question, I don’t think there is one “best way” to list your restaurants. But thanks to the internet you can run lists and if I look up Recoleta/Barrio Norte I can find Cumana or Rigoletto etc. And also if I look up Locro or Empanada etc.
I’m guessing that that would entail a lot of extra work, but hey, you asked.
Bottom line: however you do it, it’s useful. Some places I don’t expect I’ll get too near (as a non-resident, for now), but others might.
I posed this as a comment in hopes others will expand upon it or add exertise I don’t have.

]]>