Sunday, April 13, 2008

Decisions, Decisions...

So, while being one awesome judge, along with my other equally fantastic panel, our decision for the best restaurant arose a thought out of me later this weekend.
Now clearly we chose the "Out of this World" (or whatever their restaurant name was) because they presented a place to eat that we could visualize that we found exciting. Sure, the other two groups had decent ideas and there food actually sounded pretty good. My favorite type of food happens to be Mexican food actually, which is what the first group was serving. But again, the third group caught our attention, made it fun, had a story, basically made us WANT to go there. They used attractive words, maintained eye contact and painted us a picture. They made their rhetoric words visual for us, I think that is what won it for them. Anyway, I am still a little upset it doesn't exist and I truly felt like it would be opening soon and we would all take a trip there.
The other part of this point that is taking me so long to make is I want GOOD food; somewhere that tastes great and make me want to keep going back. One of my favorite places happens to be a little old, looks like crap, home owned restaurant out in the middle of a, what I believe is a neighborhood I would not want to walk alone in at night (well, I still probably wouldn't even with friends and a gun for that matter), but anyway, it certainly doesn't look appealing, but the food is the best Mexican food I have ever tasted. Now, the food that was talked about for the three restaurants in class, if you think about it, the last group probably would end up having the least best tasting food out of all of them. Sure they had some smart and cute names for the meals, but finally to my question...when do you draw the line or make the decision of what you choose over? Quality of food or an exciting atmosphere?

It would be exciting to eat at a place with a whole space theme and clever names with possible "decent" food, but it is also great to stuff yourself with the best tasting food in a not so attractive place.
How do you decide? Does it always have to depend on your mood? your needs? what you are looking for in the night?

Probably a stupid thought, but I just always have wondered if quality of food was more important over quality of entertainment...

Ok, my sexy man of the week/blog is Mr. Butler...Gerard Butler that is. I always thought he was a looker, but he really grabbed my attention in P.S. I Love You, which was the best movie of the year and critics are stupid. However, Jeffrey Dean Morgan was the best one in that movie.
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