Food Idiocy

The Atlanta Journal Constitution was already a pathetic rag before they laid off most of their journalists a few months ago.

They've sunk to new lows with their Best of Atlanta online feature. A couple local blogs have alerted me to the comical awfulness of this list.

Best Indian Restaurant: Imperial Fez.
- This is a very good restaurant. And as others have noted, it's Moroccan, not Indian.

Best Japanese Restaurant: Benihana. "Benihana restaurants are traditional Japanese-style hibachi steakhouses where meals are prepared and served right at your table."
- I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this one. My dad is pretty serious about Japanese food, and if he ever found himself in a Benihana he would probably grab one of the steak knives and disembowel someone.

Best Sushi: Ru Sans.
- Never heard of this chain before. A local blog advised putting the name plus "food poisoning" into a google search. I did. Yikes.

I'm always telling people that Atlanta has incredible restaurants. We have great barbecue and soul food. We have dim sum and pho and hot pot and pozole and imam bayildi. We also have a bunch of crappy chain restaurants that must have paid off the AJC to be placed on the list. If the editors listed them for free, that would be the greatest idiocy of all. If you're a visitor to Atlanta in search of good food, please start off using other resources instead.

In terms of current local stuff, I should probably touch on the Genarlow Wilson and Troy Anthony Davis stories, but I feel like these have already been getting some pretty good analysis on both a local and national basis, and I don't have any fresh insight to add.