Comments on: Will The Real El Camino Real Review Please Stand Up?

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:54:02 +0000

“Wagyu”, not “waygu”. Just like in the restaurant business, it’s all about the details.

My own experience at Camino Real have been middling. With Dos Segundos a drunken stumble away, I see no reason to care, though.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:04:54 +0000

One other catch here is that alt-weekly’s budgets rarely provided the ability to visit a restaurant more than once. One visit leaves a lot more to chance: a shitty restaurant can have a good night, likewise, a good one may stumble once in a while. And an average spot can go either way.

By: Buckethead

Buckethead — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:43:26 +0000

“How could two reviews, written by writers of a more or less equal caliber and for more or less the exact same audience, be so divergent?”

Well, unless they ate together, they weren’t eating the same food. So there’s the possibility that Popp’s meals were actually bad, and Erace’s were actually good, and both reviews would be correct.

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:57:48 +0000

Interesting. Gotta tell you, I’ve eaten there three times and I’m still waiting to be wowed. Can’t say I love it, but I wish them well. I’ll stick to Bar Ferdinand.

By: foodzings

foodzings — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:33:41 +0000

i did not have a good time there, and it was my birthday, to boot.
http://foodzings.blogspot.com/2009/01/el-camino-real-real-dissappointing.html