I used to like Yelp for restaurant and business reviews, until I realized that more and more reviews were becoming profanity laced. Even positive business reviews were including all kinds of expletives to describe whatever the reviewer decided to rant about. Often reviews would contain irrelevant information about the reviewer’s bad day, crappy [...]

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Restaurants
The Gloss of Opulence
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: November 14, 2007
After a two-year renovation at Harry Cipriani on Fifth Avenue, the dining room gleams as brightly as ever, but the cooking is ordinary or careless for the most part, and the service is often confused.  Read the rest of the article in The New York Times …

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Let me sum it up in just a few words:  Lunch good; dinner bad!
We had lunch at sensi in Bellagio right after we arrived since our room wasn’t going to be ready for several hours.  The place looks fantastic with all interior finishes being organic (stone, wood, bamboo, water, glass).  I say water because some [...]

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Yes, I hate red velvet cake.  I’ve never liked it and I’ve never understood why people (usually red-neck women in the south) just go on-and-on about how good it is.  I started on this rant because there was a link to “smittenkitchen.com” from an article in the New York Times this morning.  And when I took [...]

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Ate lunch at Food 101 in the Morningside neighborhood in Atlanta yesterday.  I’ll just say I could have gone to Picadilly cafeteria and eaten better food and experienced a more relaxing lunch.  That visit was my first, my last and my everything for Food 101.

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Just had a manicure / pedicure at 10Ten Nail Bar (Morningside location) in Atlanta and it was excellent!  Thoroughly recommended!
Their website is here:  http://www.10tennailbar.com/

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