I've gotten to the point where I usually don't eat at restaurants if I haven't seen good reviews, don't see movies without good reviews and don't try recipes without seeing reviews.
Most of the restaurant and recipe reviews are done by laymen and the aggregate opinion is what I usually go on.
Here's what I've found: good places have an overwhelming majority of good reviews. Inevitably with restaurants with tons of great reviews, there's some snob who posts something like: "I'm from ____ and this is NOT authentic ____!"
Especially in Utah, there are a whole class of people who live here that think they are too good for the state. Even if something is good, they are from _____, so they are the expert and what passes for ____ food in Utah is total crap.
Even more annoying are people with recipe reviews. There is always someone who gives the recipe 3/5 stars and says: "Haven't tried it yet, but it looks good."
There are also people who give it 2 or 3 stars and say: "Didn't follow the recipe and baked instead of fried and it did not have any flavor and I couldn't eat it."
Why the he## would you review something you hadn't tried or why would you blame the recipe if you had not followed it?
Amen. My other favorite are the people that post long-winded and highly implausible stories about a nightmarish customer service experience. There are a lot of people out there that insist that waiters and waitresses screamed at them, the hostess called them a fat cow, etc. I call shenanigans and disregard their reviews.
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