About
This notebook is a record of all the places I eat: my favorites, and my recommendations for anyone wondering where to eat next. I'm vegetarian (but I do eat eggs), so everything here is vegetarian.
I'm based in NYC now, after living in the Washington, DC area, and I'll be documenting places from all over. Wherever I go, I look forward to trying new food and new experiences. The best of them end up in the Hall of Fame.
How to read the scores
My rating philosophy
Every place is scored out of 10 on taste, ambiance and value (takeout skips ambiance), and the overall is their average. An average restaurant is a 5. As a rough guide:
- 1 /10 Poor A poor experience. I could not finish my meal, and I would never eat there again.
- 3 /10 Edible I left fed and satisfied, but I would not come back.
- 5 /10 Average An okay place. I am fine eating here on a day-to-day basis.
- 7 /10 Worth the drive I would travel 30 minutes to an hour to eat here, and if friends were visiting, this would be a spot I recommend.
- 9 /10 One of a kind, worth traveling for A one-of-a-kind experience. If I traveled to wherever this restaurant is, eating here would be a priority, part of the reason for the trip.