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This is a response to: LOL- well at least you learned from it. I hope you also know to go to a REAL NYC bagel place for bagels and a real NYC deli for knishes,matzoh ball
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Yep and sometimes the crummier looking and bad service-having, the better! NT
03/10/15 02:16 PM






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* 'I Can't Get Over How Bad It Was': A Lisa Vanderpump Restaurant Crawl
AwfuLeeHandsome
03/09/15 01:01 PM
xx * I like white decor, balsamic reductions, and warm potato salads, so the opinions of the author and her non-foodie foodie friend do not matter. NT
Shar
03/10/15 01:46 PM
xx * Meh, I believe about half of this. Sounds like a star struck RHBH fan who expected who knows what. She went to great lengths to trash it all
L24
03/09/15 01:21 PM
xx * I tried to read this through, got to the part where the author orders the same Caprese salad with a dressing she KNEW she didn't like
colleenag
03/09/15 02:35 PM
xx * Maybe it's just for the show, but Lisa seems to be a very hands on owner, and very particular, so I doubt things are as bad as this article says NT
L24
03/09/15 06:13 PM
xx * IA. I've had a chance to think about this and if the worst (of what I've read) is the author thinks the ceilings at Villa Blanca are too
colleenag
03/10/15 03:41 AM
xx * First world problems. NT
sassyflalassy
03/10/15 06:14 PM
xx * It did seem like the author wasn't much of a LVP fan, but I can also see these restaurants being fairly bad. They are nothing more than tourist
cantgetenough
03/09/15 01:44 PM
xx * Agree. And while Lisa V may have wanted to have fine dining eateries, her celebrity gets in the way. Of course they could charge
agent99
03/10/15 11:00 AM
xx * Would not work because real CALI foodies would not eat there-the price of the dishes would not equal the quality of the food.Its mediocre NT
xrayspex
03/10/15 01:50 PM
xx * I am going by reviews I have read over the years by professional food critics-not reviews on yelp,ect. I personally never been nor would I want to. NT
xrayspex
03/10/15 01:58 PM
xx * If I were to go, it definitely wouldn't be for the food. I'd go to one of her restaurants to gawk. NT
cantgetenough
03/10/15 02:00 PM
xx * Right! Have one truly over priced drink,gawk an laugh for an hour-then leave. NT
xrayspex
03/10/15 02:05 PM
xx * Exactly-they are tourist traps-over priced tourist traps NT
xrayspex
03/10/15 09:40 AM
xx * I agree, they're total kitsch tourist traps now. NT
AwfuLeeHandsome
03/09/15 02:32 PM
xx * I sort of equate it to clueless tourists in NYC that would wait hours in line for over priced soup from the soup nazi or tourists that go to theme
xrayspex
03/10/15 02:04 PM
xx * or the pizza places when the really good pizza isn't in the tourist area :)**clueless tourist alert** :) NT
Belle
03/10/15 02:05 PM
xx * OMG- that is the worst! The ones that go to Dominoes,ect when NYC has THE BEST mom an pop pizza places on earth. NT
xrayspex
03/10/15 02:07 PM
xx * I'll never understand that or how there are even crummy pizza chains that can pay their bills in NYC. Who goes there?? NT
AwfuLeeHandsome
03/10/15 02:08 PM
xx * Tourists that think NYC is only Times Square :) NT
xrayspex
03/10/15 02:15 PM
xx * Or that San Francisco is only Fisherman's Wharf! NT
cantgetenough
03/10/15 02:25 PM
xx * Or that NH is only pretty in the fall lol NT
colleenag
03/10/15 02:31 PM
xx * yup NT
xrayspex
03/10/15 02:26 PM
xx * Its not!!!!! :) yep jokers gets input on my next trip hehe NT
Belle
03/10/15 02:25 PM
xx * I'll hook you up next time you come here, Belle. Me and Loo will take care of you and show you the REAL SF. NT
cantgetenough
03/10/15 02:26 PM
xx * Jon Stewart calls it M&Mistan because of how commercialized and antiseptic it's become NT
AwfuLeeHandsome
03/10/15 02:18 PM
xx * That and Disney NT
xrayspex
03/10/15 02:21 PM
xx * yep we had the worst first then a cabbie clues us in lol :) NT
Belle
03/10/15 02:07 PM
xx * You answered my question, Belle does! :) NT
AwfuLeeHandsome
03/10/15 02:09 PM
xx * hey can't help it i was a stupid tourist NT
Belle
03/10/15 02:09 PM
xx * LOL- well at least you learned from it. I hope you also know to go to a REAL NYC bagel place for bagels and a real NYC deli for knishes,matzoh ball
xrayspex
03/10/15 02:13 PM
xx * Yep and sometimes the crummier looking and bad service-having, the better! NT
AwfuLeeHandsome
03/10/15 02:16 PM
xx * YES! NT
xrayspex
03/10/15 02:17 PM
xx * lol okay next time i'll ask jokers to show me around :) NT
Belle
03/10/15 02:16 PM
xx * Just ask! I seriously love taking and telling my visiting friends that come to NYC all the great restaurants and sites that are not tourist traps and
xrayspex
03/10/15 02:20 PM
xx * That would seriously be a blast NT
AwfuLeeHandsome
03/10/15 02:18 PM
xx * Right. If I ever got to BH I'm sure I would go to Lisa's restaurants, but not with such high expectations. And I certainly wouldn't take the time
L24
03/09/15 02:31 PM

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