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TripAdvisor Losses Credibility

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TOTONNO’S One of America’s Best PIZZA, Brooklyn, NEW YORK

TripAdvisor makes a major Faux Pas when with their Top 10 Pizza Cities of U.S.  The Faux Pas, TripAdvisor puts the “Undisputed Raining King of American Pizza 4th” and as if they are even more out of their minds rank San Diego # 1, Las Vegas # 2, Boston # 3, and The Champ New York # 4  … It doesn’t take much of a Genius to realize that this is one of the 21st Centuries biggest Media Blunders of all. So bad in fact, “It’s a Joke,” an absurdity that is beyond belief and has “Seriously Hurt TripAdvisor” and given them a major Credibility Issue.  A business that is built on credibility and giving “Advise” as per their “Name,” TripAdvisor is in TROUBLE ..

Below:  “THIS IS INSANITY” !!!

The Top 10 Cities for Pizza, as determined by TripAdvisor:

  1. San Diego, California
  2. Las Vegas, Nevada
  3. Boston, Massachusetts
  4. New York City, New York
  5. Seattle, Washington
  6. Austin, Texas
  7. San Francisco, California
  8. Indianapolis, Indiana
  9. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  10. Phoenix, Arizona

At issue here is not whether San Diego, Boston, and Las Vegas has better Pizza then New York and that they have bragging rights. “Hell No!” They don’t, anyone in their “Right-Mind” knows that no city can touch New York in their superiority as far as Pizza is concerned, New York is America’s undisputed Champ, we have some of the Best Pizza on Eart, and this include Italy. The only city that comes close to New York is New Haven, Connecticut, but even as great as New Haven and the towns pizza is, they are a distant second to New York, Chicago? Fougettabout IT! Chicago, that “Deep Dish Stuff” That’s NOT Pizza, it’s Deep Dish something, not Pizza. The balance is completely off to be called “real pizza.”

The issue here, with TripAdvisor’s Major Foul-Up  is when you go to Tripadvisor for “Advise” on Hotels, Restaurants, and other travel related questions to determine what is the best, and for accurate descriptions, opinions, and ratings, “Is Tripadvisor accurrate and reliable? The answer is, “Sometimes,” just be careful and look to others like Yelp and articles and other info on places you are seeking accurate info and advice about. Don’t solely count on TripAdvisor. This “Pizza Debacle” is a major “blunder” and one that will take Tripadvisor a good long time to recover from.

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

Unami Burger “New York’s Hot New Ticket”

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Line at UNAMI BURGER NEW YORK .. 6th Avenue, Greenwich Village

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Learn How To Make DUDE STYLE BURGERS with The DUDES BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK "GOT ANY KAHLUA"

Learn How To Make DUDE STYLE BURGERS with The DUDES BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK “GOT ANY KAHLUA”

TUJAGUE’S New Orleans

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Painting of TAJAGUE’S by artist Mary DeSilva

Taujague’s is one of New orleans Great Grand Old Restaurants, is one of the Oldest still operating restaurants in America an is second oldest in New Orleans only to Antoine’s .. Opened before the Civil War in 1856, Tufague’s has been feeding New Orlian’s and visitors (Millions) to The Cresent City ever since. Did you know that the Grasshopper Cocktail was “Invented” here? Know I didn’t think you did. Neither did the people at the Stand-Up Bar at Tujague’s did when I was in there on Lundi Day 2007 and ordered one. Everyone was curious as I drank mine. I told them it was invented here and everyone got one. We had a grand time there that day where I stopped in for a couple Grasshoppers after having an 

awesome lunch of a Muffuletta at Central Grocery a few doors down on Decator Street. I then walked up the block to Cafe Du Monde for Beignets and Cafe au Lait before heading over to Tujague’s for the Grasshoppers and merriment at the famed Stand-Up Bar (No Seats) …

 

 

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Drinking “GRASSHOPPERS” with A Friend I Met at TAJAGUE’S Stand-Up Bar

Cafe Du Monde … New Orleans “Americas Greatest Cafe”

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America’s Greatest Cafe? What and where is it? Where? First thoughts might run to the culinary capital of America, New York .. You’d be wrong. Though we have many fine cafes in New York and probably the city with more great cafes than most of America, when it comes to AMerica’s number 1, single best, undisputed champ, America’s Greatest Cafe, one stands alone, with whoever number two is, it’s a distant second, America’s Greatest Cafe is without a doubt Cafe Du Monde in The French Quarter of New Orleans .. Wow, was that a mouthful or what ..

Cafe du Monde is America’s best cafe on two fronts. Number one being that they serve this World’s Best Beignets (French Donuts “No Hole”), and the World’s Best Chicory Coffee “Cafe au Lait” … Second the ambiance and physical of the place is wonderful. Number 3, the customers, the people and amount of people that go there, and that just about everyone who goes there (about 99%) makes at least one stop at Cafe du Monde on their trip ..  There are no statistics on it, but I’m pretty sure that more people have had coffee at Cafe du Monde than any other Cafe in the World, including cafes that are older .. Speaking of old as far as cafes or any restaurant or any business goes, Cafe du Monde has been around serving happy customers Cafe Lait and Beignets for more than 150 years .. They have been in continuous operation since 1862 … And there serve thousands of people each and every day 365 days a year, year-after-year … There is no restaurant that comes close in raw numbers … They serve about 35,000 people a week, or 1 Million + 638,000 people a year ..

But, the fact that Cafe Du Monde is thee number 1 place that everyone, whether tourists or locals has to go to … I love Napoleon House, Galatoire’s, and Tujague’s but great as they are, not everyone goes to them. “Everyone goes to Cafe Du Monde.” It’s a meeting place where you get a tasty cup of Cafe au Lait and 3 Beignets for a mere $4.50 … You will see everyone there, and you always have a great time. Cafe Du Monde, one of the World’s greatest and without a doubt AMerica’s Greatest Cafe ..

 

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Beignets and Cafe au Lait

 

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The DUDES BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK

ABIDE!

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Minetta Tavern

Minetta Tavern

TONY JANIRO With EDDIE MINETTA …
Possibly at Training Camp in New Jersey .. Tony Preparing for With Jake La Motta “The Raging Bull” From The BRONX,
NEW YORK …. Eddie Owner of Famed Greenwich Village Restaurant MINETTA TAVERN on Macdougal Street in The Village, a spot were Prize Fighter, Musicians, and Movie Stars congregated, drinking, eating, socializing and having a grand time, including the likes of Ernest Hemingway, and …

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Havana Cuba

Havana Cuba

Old American Car Driving The Malecon during Hurricane Sandy  …

Italian-American New Yorkers and Their Food

Italian-American New Yorkers and Their Food

CELEBRITIES SPOTTED At CARBONE

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CARBONE SIGN When It Was Still ROCCO RESTAURANT  “Prior To CARBONE Being Superimposed In NEON Over ROCCO ... Photo Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

Remembering back to My Days at DaSilvano .. I was the Maitre’d and DaSilvano was Thee # 1 Single Hottest Celebrity Spotting Restaurant of All .. No Place could touch it. “And I mean Nobody.” Back then and up to Silvano’s Drop from New York’s Hot Celebrity Spot was back in 2008 when Vanity Fair Magazine Editor In Cheif Graydon Carter opened his restaurant The Waverly Inn with Hotel and Night Club Impresario Eric Goode … The Waverly Inn Instantly Became Thee Celebrity Restaurant to Be Seen and Seen At … Carter Stole Silvano’s Thiunder and Has not been the same since.

When I was Manager / Maitre’d at Da Silvano from 1998 – 2001 Da Silvano was the place for the “Movers And Shakers” in the Movie, Record and Music, Publishing, and Fashion Worlds. Da Silvano saw at it’s tables Movie Stars, Rock Stars, Famous Writers and Everyone Who Was Anyone as they say. Over my years there, I schmoozed with and took care of the likes of regulras; Gwyneth Palthrow, Richard Gere, Paul McCarteny, David Bowie, Calvin Klein, Ethan Hawke, Keith Richards, Nick Tosches, Dominic Dunne, Griffin Dunne, Francesco Clemente, Madonna, and-on-and-on … The list is too long to name everyone … There was a lot of Energy in The Joint, and I for One Just Loved it. As did all the Celebs that packed in to Da Silvano each and every night.  

Da Silvano was on Top. But No More. Now it’s places like Minetta Tavern and Carbone, both just two short blocks from the once “capital of New York Celebritydom” These two restaurants have taken over were DaSilvano left off. Wait a minute now. I almost left out BAR PITTI, of which Silvano Marchetto once owned 50% of before the famous feud with ex-partner and fellow Florentine Giovanni Tognozzi .. Bar Pitti is 3 in The Triangle of Celebrity Hot Spots in Greenwich Village, all 3 places just 2 blocks from one another. And Bar Pitti is directly next door to “Arch Enemy” DaSilvano .. 

SPOTTED at CARBONE

Beyonce

Jay Z

Sara Jessica Parker

Matthew Broderick

Jake Gyllenhaal

George Stephanopoulos

Jerry Seinfeild

NOT QUITE AS IMPRESSIVE as The CELEBS We Had at Da SIvano One Upon a Time …

But Then Again “Nothing Is As Good as It Used to Be” Especialy Music and Cars “Both AWFUL”

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

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RICHARD GERE and GWYNETH PALTHROW Former REGULARS at DaSILVANO RESTORANTE, GREEWNICH VILLAGE .. NEW YORK

Italian-American New Yorkers and Their Food

Italian-American New Yorkers and Their Food

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UNAMI BURGER HITS NEW YORK

UNAMI BURGER HITS NEW YORK

The Hugely Successful LA Unami Burger Opens in New York .. Owned and Created by Adam Fleishman
BURGERS $10 – $15, Including; Duck Burger, Truffle Burger, and French Dip Sandwich …

UNAMI BURGER, 432 6th Avenue (near West 10th Street, NY NY) (212) 677-8626

NY TIMES DEMOTES DANIEL 3 STARS

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RESTAURANT DANIEL DOWN To 3 STARS as PETE WELLS STEALS STARS

Pete Wells has taken Restaurant Daniel “Down A Notch” and it seems the main reason to be un-democratic service. Restaurant Staff notices Wells and he gets extra pampering while his friends sitting at another table have the same exact meal, excellent service but not pampered as much as Wells which starts the moment when he leaves the restaurant and a staffer offers to get him a cab. Wells loved the food but not being overly coddled, “Picky Picky Picky Peter.”