Restaurant Survey

Now please concentrate on the food and rate each of the following on a scale of 1-5.

Please be as detailed and specific as you like, and feel free to comment on matters not included in the survey. Also please note any changes (hours, menu, new rooms, etc.) you may have noticed since your last visit. These comments will be published anonymously on the Reader Restaurant Finder web site.

Please review and consider your report before clicking on the Submit button below. Once you send it to the database, it's in there. To erase your answers and start over, click the Clear Form button.

^* One of the pitfalls of restaurant rating is the natural tendency of raters to reward pleasant surprises and punish unmet expectations: if a place gives a lot of value for the money, or its food far exceeds its humble attitude, or it provides a lot better experience than you've been led to expect, you may be inclined to rate it highly. If it's disappointing in some way, you may want to rate it low. But that inclination can lead to absurd results. For example, one now-defunct Chicago restaurant guide gives Club Lago a higher food rating than Spiaggia, although Spiaggia appears on its list of ten top upscale restaurants and Club Lago appears nowhere on any of its top ten lists. Club Lago is an unpretentious tavern that serves traditional Italian food, and its prices are lower than Spiaggia's by more than half: obviously, raters have rewarded it for modesty and good value. But our survey has separate ways of registering these qualities. So when you rate a restaurant's food or assign an overall rating, please try to discount your expectations and the restaurant's pretensions or ambitions; simply judge it against the best and worst places you know. (Return to Overall Rating.)