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Originally Posted by Dicky McElephant
You'll honestly probably go once and then never go back.
He had a Johnny Garlics in Santa Rosa and a Tex Wasabi's up in Sac....but then turned the Wasabi's into a Johnny Garlics......and then closed it down. Garlics was alright....but nothing super special.
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I know it's NYC, and they're elitist assholes in their food scene... but this review of his restaurant up there is pretty awesome:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/di...anted=all&_r=0
It also points to a seriously annoying issue in popular food trends: the use of superlatives and exaggeration on menus. High quality restaurants tend toward the plain (almost annoying so) when they describe. But the pop culture way seems to give a bunch of preposterous descriptors that inevitably lead to disappointment. It annoys the crap out of me. Fast food restaurants are the worse with their "INSANE HABANERO SAUCE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU SWEATING!!" and then it's about the heat of chipotle flavored mayo.
I understand that you can't actually produce something truly spicy or edgy for consumption by the masses, but please stop trying to describe your food as edgy.