Best Of MenuPages Reviews: Things We Liked For A Variety Of Reasons

We may not do reviews at MenuPages, but our legions of users are all over that. Here are four of interest.

Nothing unites these reviews save 1) they were all submitted in the last week 2) we thought they were all notable. Observe that this is not true for the vast majority of reviews we receive here! We will enumerate our picks in no particular order:

On 8/19, “Jeff” left a competent, believable review for Silver Seafood:


I also lived in Hong Kong for a year, many years ago. There are very few restaurants in the country that actually remind me of Hong Kong. This one does. It’s not high end, but it is very authentic, to the point that one dish (the bitter melon) was too Chinese for my taste. The salt and pepper smelts were great, the baby bok chow with shitake mushrooms were in a perfect brown sauce, even the vegetable fried rice my daughter wanted was exceptionally good. Shrimp with walnuts and vegetable chow fun were also excellent. We ordered a fish filet in scallions and ginger that came out deep fried, and the waitress replaced it at no charge with the same dish but steamed and spicy, which was also very good.

We live in the suburbs, and are always looking for places to meet my city dwelling mother at the north end of the city. This was a good spot.


We like that this review gives a sense of both the restaurant’s accessibility and authenticity. The right balance of both makes for excellent ethnic dining. Also, it’s so true that bitter melon can be really intense. Probably best to avoid.

Meanwhile, one “I love a fiasco!” wrote a review entitled “over the top” about (can you guess?) Il Fiasco on 8/14:


Hello fellow diners.
If you don’t fall in love with this place you just don’t under stand.I’ve worked in the biz. for 20 years, and someone at our table made a mistake in ordering their meal,and called the waiter over and made it sound as if the kitchen made the mistake when three other people clearly heard the order being placed, we were shocked by friends “ploy”.
The waiter said he was sorry the owner stopped by remade the dish and bought the table dessert!
Now that was over the top service that you just don’t see anymore, BRAVO!!
I’m not even going to talk about the great prices and great menu just go see for yourself.


If this is a shill, it’s taken a very complex form. A guy (probably) attacking his friend for trying to cheat the restaurant, and then praising the restaurant for rising above? This is really a question for The Ethicist, maybe.

This next one, for Boem, was also left on 8/14 and was entitled “YO RAP!”:


Shta bre kenjash, hrana je VR, usluga takodje, a tek muzika, muzika je neprevazidjena. Sad od skora su pocheli da sviraju neki momci, kidaju scenu, a tek pevach Srdjan, majstor zna svoj poso. Tako da, Hrvat, sve u svemu mnogo drobish.
POzdrav iz Vrtipupinaca kod Knjazevca.


Um, does anyone who knows Serbo-Croatian want to roughly translate this? We sometimes get reviews in Spanish, but this is the most exotic language we’ve gotten thus far. Also, YO RAP!

And finally, the following judgment came in on a date we won’t share for a restaurant whose identity we won’t reveal:


even mcdonalds is better. awful, uninspired, bland. worst meal of our lives. should be shut down.


Um, does anyone who knows Serbo-Croatian want to roughly translate this? We sometimes get reviews in Spanish, but this is the most exotic language we’ve gotten thus far. Also, YO RAP!

And finally, the following judgment came in on a date we won’t share for a restaurant whose identity we won’t reveal:

Il Fiasco [MenuPages]
Il Fiasco [Official Site]

Boem [MenuPages]
Boem [Official Site]

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Best Of MenuPages Reviews: Things We Liked For A Variety Of Reasons