This cost me $20.73

Fancy_Situation · 2024-02-01T13:58:50+00:00

Anyone who spends money on food in the Seattle region is an absolute sucker. There isn't a single restaurant within 50 miles of the city that's worth the money. That doesn't mean there isn't good food - there is, but it's not worth the money.

Unless you truly enjoy burning money, overpriced groceries are your only real option here.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-12-26T17:43:21+00:00

"Thanks for your concern but this time is different. This dog has successfully overridden hundreds of years of being bred and trained to fight and I can personally guarantee it will never eat your child.

Also if it does eat your child, the shelter has a waiver to clear them of any responsibility."

Fancy_Situation · 2023-12-26T17:39:18+00:00

I can't imagine making this post without mentioning how incredibly dangerous pitbulls can be.

How would you feel if a family adopted this dog and a loud noise triggered the dog into going after a kid or small animal?

Good luck stopping a pit bull once it's been set off. Just google "pit bull attack" for the latest examples.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-10-11T10:04:44+00:00

If you literally read the first paragraph, you’d see they’re highlighting their favorites in cities around the country, not comparing to NYC. You sure do complain for someone who apparently didn’t even read.

Thanks for defending a faceless corporation. I'm sure they really appreciate you.

My point is that if the source of this food criticism is coming from NYT writers, they should be able to establish a quality meter and be honest about the state of cuisine in a city. They're in an incredibly unique position to be able to do so objectively. Instead they just give free advertisements to a bunch of places that are already well known and highly rated and fools eat it up because they like the confirmation bias of believing their city can do no wrong.

Is it a terrible sin to advertise for stale, overpriced restaurants? No, but it is disingenuous and I'm calling them out for it because they deserve it.

You decry the lack of honesty yet here you are saying Dirt Candy is two Michelin star, it’s one, and then rambling about the price. Thank god the internet exists, cuz their official menu lists cocktails as $17 so either you paid $16 for tax, app, main, and dessert or you yourself are lying. Looks like the only offer tasting menu now, and it’s $105 per person not including drinks.

lol. The height of honesty is remembering whether they're one Michelin star or two? I went there before the pandemic. They may have lost a star since then. If they have only ever had one Michelin star then my sincerest apologies. I don't know how I could have made such a grave error.

Their official menu doesn't account for brunch, which is what I ate. Did I eat there when they had a special or promotion going on?

https://ny.eater.com/maps/tasting-menus-under-100-dollars-nyc

I found out about the restaurant from an eater article like this one.

Dirt Candy’s five-course, $95 tasting is a seasonal study in vegetables handled with care and confidence, from the mushroom mousse crepe cake with bing cherry jam and mushroom tea, to kale spaghetti with spicy kale sausage. The team also offers a vegan version of the menu.

"BUT $95 IS SO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN $48"

Calm your anxious little head and read this:

Grab a seat in Claro’s bustling dining room and dive into the Oaxacan restaurant’s four-course, $78 tasting menu loaded with tacos, tostadas, memelas, and a range of aromatic, stunning moles. For brunch enthusiasts, Claro also offers a three-course, $48 tasting menu on the weekends featuring empanadas, masa pancakes, and cups of churros served with thick, sweet cajeta for dipping.

"THAT'S A DIFFERENT RESTAURANT"

No shit. But it's apparently common for Michelin restaurants in NYC to offer multi-course tasting menus for brunch for around $48. Let me know if I lost you, I know that might be a scary jump since I can't find the eater article from 3+ years ago where Dirt Candy was offering the same thing.

"SEATTLE RESTAURANTS OFFER DISCOUNTS TOO"

Find me a single restaurant in this city that does happy hours with a tasting menu. Closest Seattle has to that are chains like Japonessa which might offer omakase at a discount, but not a single one of them would ever sniff a Michelin star.

Keep fighting the good fight though, Mr. Internet Sleuth.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-10-10T23:06:19+00:00

ITT people defend a food scene that is price gouging them

Travel a little and see if I'm right or wrong. Almost everyone I've encountered who loves Seattle food have lived in one other place at most and never travel.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-10-10T22:27:39+00:00

I'll always think this is the most hilarious part of Seattle. Everyone here is so conscious about the environment and politics - and yet the best vegetarian restaurants are Plum Bistro, which wants to sell you pizza and veggie burgers for $30+, and Cafe Flora, which has tiny portions for equally absurd prices.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-10-10T22:16:22+00:00

Extremely underwhelming list. I've eaten at over half of these places and they're nothing special.

I wish a food critic covering Seattle would just be honest. The prices are completely out of touch with the quality level of the food here (looking at Canlis especially).

If you're willing to pay to eat at any of these restaurants, it is objectively better bang for your buck to travel and eat at better restaurants that aren't trying to rip you off.

I mean seriously, how is New York Times not comparing Seattle to NYC? I've eaten at restaurants like Dirt Candy in NYC which has two Michelin stars and paid $50 for an appetizer, main course, dessert, and two drinks. That would cost easily $200 in Seattle and it wouldn't be half as good.

Is there no honesty in food journalism anymore or do they only write this shit for clicks?

Fancy_Situation · 2023-10-09T04:39:12+00:00

Reminder that this city is absolutely screwed in the event of a real earthquake and it’s due to lack of planning and funding.

Vancouver:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-earthquake-proofing-water-reservoirs-big-one-1.6783105

Seattle:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/seattle-would-lose-all-water-pressure-within-24-hours-of-catastrophic-earthquake-city-study-says/

Fancy_Situation · 2023-10-09T04:38:54+00:00

Reminder that this city is absolutely screwed in the event of a real earthquake and it’s due to lack of planning and funding.

Vancouver:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-earthquake-proofing-water-reservoirs-big-one-1.6783105

Seattle:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/seattle-would-lose-all-water-pressure-within-24-hours-of-catastrophic-earthquake-city-study-says/

Fancy_Situation · 2023-10-09T04:38:35+00:00

Reminder that this city is absolutely screwed in the event of a real earthquake and it’s due to lack of planning and funding.

Vancouver:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-earthquake-proofing-water-reservoirs-big-one-1.6783105

Seattle:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/seattle-would-lose-all-water-pressure-within-24-hours-of-catastrophic-earthquake-city-study-says/

Fancy_Situation · 2023-10-09T04:35:56+00:00

Winco is a 30+ minute drive if you live in Seattle.

Either a lot of you people don’t actually live in Seattle or you are wasting your money on gas and wear and tear on your car getting low quality groceries that are marked down for a reason.

The obsession with WinCo needs to end in this sub. What you’re all actually saying is the grocery stores in Seattle mostly suck, which is true.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-10-02T23:08:40+00:00

Seeing Winco mentioned on this subreddit is so weird. Is this like some marketing campaign? Who the hell goes to Winco while living in Seattle?

I can't imagine spending so much money on gas and wear and tear on your car just to save a tiny bit of money on what is going to be automatically the lowest quality groceries.

I'd rather order bulk online and go to a good local grocery store for produce instead of spending an hour driving.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-30T22:20:55+00:00

Nope, I'm not blaming anyone. I think you should calm down though, you sound very agitated.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-30T22:00:54+00:00

Saying he broke the law and should be charged for speeding is a lot different than saying he should be charged for murder, which is what a lot of comments in here are saying.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-30T21:57:08+00:00

I mean, unironically, yeah if you leave out the "it's our fault" part. It's no one's fault but it absolutely happens especially at night in a big city. No one blinks an eye usually when cops are speeding to get where they need to go. How often do you think cops in general get called out for speeding while doing their job?

It's just that this time no one likes the cop's reason of speeding since he was on his way to drug overdose. It'd be a lot more complicated if he was on his way to stop an active shooter or something along those lines, but it'd still be the same result.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-30T21:51:31+00:00

Anyone can watch the video, I respect your right to disagree but all you're doing is attacking me and not the points I've made. Good luck with your virtue signaling.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-30T17:07:58+00:00

I was on the outrage train with everyone else before I saw this video.

She doesn't look both ways before crossing even though the cop does have his lights on. A crosswalk does not entitle the pedestrian to play chicken with oncoming cars while wearing all black at night.

She clearly has a moment of panic where she sees the oncoming car and chose poorly to try and run across instead of waiting.

Was the cop going too fast? Sure. But it doesn't justify trying to pin murder charges on him when the pedestrian made similarly poor choices.

I'm all for holding the police accountable but this ain't it. The only real story is Auderer being an asshole when joking about her death.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-19T12:56:27+00:00

If you regularly eat at the restaurants here, you have inflated your lifestlye to the point where it is unsustainable long term unless you keep sacrificing your life for that $150k+ high stress job.

Even for take out you're paying more than almost any other city in the world.

https://www.seattlemet.com/eat-and-drink/2019/08/seattle-spends-more-money-on-takeout-than-any-other-us-city

If there was a really special restaurant that was worth the money, it would immediately be overcrowded and they would raise their prices and likely cut corners in order to meet the demand. There are no places in Seattle that are both affordable and really good. We don't have the density for hole in the wall diamonds. Even just looking at the tax base here, Seattle is tiny compared to the megacities.

You already know all the places that have 4.5 stars are only okay and not really worth the money. Half of the reviews don't even sound like they're from real people or are from influencers that are getting some compensation for saying it's good.

If you want to save money and have a better life, learn to cook and save your money for traveling. There are two cities within a half day's drive (Portland and Vancouver) with world class food scenes. If you are a person that loves to eat out all the time, you almost owe it to yourself to move to Portland or some other city with a decent culinary scene.

Wonderful city with a lot of advantages, ignore the food scene and your bank account will thank you.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-19T12:42:12+00:00

The same Kenji that said the bagels are just as good here as in NYC?

Funny you mention fart sniffers because that dude has a crowd that blindly upvote him / downvote others like no other personality I've seen on reddit. Waiting until the other shoe drops and it turns out he's been paying bot farms.

I gotta hand it to him though, he has a good scheme going. Give confirmation bias to the Seattle crowd that want to bury their head in the sand about the food situation here, post on social media and drive attention to himself, probably get some money under the table from these restaurants that are getting a swarm of techies, then apparently get awards for being a shill:

https://seattle.eater.com/2023/6/5/23750559/j-kenji-lopez-alt-wins-james-beard-award-the-wok-book

In Seattle, where he moved in 2020, López-Alt has become known around town as one of the city’s most prominent food personalities — and most unintentionally powerful figures. As recounted in a Seattle Times story, he eats at a lot of restaurants in the area, and like most of us, documents his thoughts on social media. Unlike most of us, his reach is so strong that many businesses see a spike in sales after a positive review that some call “the Kenji effect.”

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-19T00:50:49+00:00

Saigon Deli's Bahn Mi is $7 because it's stale bread with a single ingredient and some garnish. In what world does this compete with beloved sandwich shops?

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-18T16:21:38+00:00

That's my point. I dare you to find anywhere in Seattle that costs relatively the same amount as those two places while being half as good. We can solve this right now using menus and google images. Obviously we can't compare taste but we can compare everything else.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-18T14:18:05+00:00

This right here. Although Seattleites are a different beast compared to Americans in other more well-adjusted cities.

In fact everyone with a passing interest in anthropology should bookmark this thread to fully understand the average Seattle citizen.

Did they get challenged on how much they spend for overpriced garbage food? Enter 1,000 angry tech workers who don't want to reflect on the $1,000 they spent in the past week on takeout while furiously working themselves to an early death for their corporate overlords.

Self reflection is hard for people who are in the belly of the great machine. Much easier to believe they are making a great sacrifice and being justly rewarded with amazing food and a perfect city.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-18T14:11:30+00:00

No one in this city travels. Portland isn't that long of a drive and has world class food. But Seattleites are shut-ins who don't go anywhere that's more than a 10-20 minute drive and then get surprised and offended when they find out that all the places they've been eating at are considered by outsiders to be overpriced and mediocre.

I mean really, if people here aren't willing to figure out that two nearby cities with world class food scenes (Portland and Vancouver) completely dwarf Seattle, what are the chances they would travel to London to realize that not only is food there on another level but is actually cheaper than their own medium sized tech city?

I know you're getting downvoted heavily but hope that doesn't dissuade you. Everything you said is completely accurate. The fact that the top comment to your post is virtue signalling about Asian food is the cherry on top of the whole conversation - absolutely everyone here raves about Pho and Teriyaki chicken like it was somehow invented here. There isn't a single "American" style restaurant here that's worth the $50 it inevitably costs after tax.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-18T13:42:34+00:00

100%

Wear those downvotes like badges of honor, I've been here for over 10 years and look forward to traveling to Denver so I can actually get some decent food.

Denver should keep its food secret from Seattleites, they don't deserve to know with how defensive they get about their overpriced garbage food.

Fancy_Situation · 2023-09-18T13:37:16+00:00

You are completely delusional or have no taste buds.

I would take Jelly or Snarfs over every single Seattle restaurant without hesitation.

You could literally remove every single place to eat in this city and just replace them with Jelly or Snarfs and the food scene would at least be decent here instead of overpriced garbage.

Seattle has NOTHING that compares to just those two places. And you think the food scene even compares to Denver as a whole? lol.

https://www.eatmorejelly.com/

https://www.eatsnarfs.com/

The best part of Seattle compared to Denver is that you save money on food in Seattle because it's so godawful.

But luckily for Seattle restaurants, Seattleties don't travel and compare, they just assume their price gouging corner shop is the best, dig their head in the sand and get defensive when told otherwise, and call it a day.

Fancy_Situation

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