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Restaurant Rating System
(I'm feeling mellow)
If you live in Los Angeles, you might want to check out Restaurant Watch, restaurantwatch.com/ a free site that monitors the Hygiene Inspection Violations in our local restaurants. You can build a little online database of the places you dine and you'll see the results of inspections and you can even be e-mailed when the places on your list are reinspected. What I found out is that I've been laboring under a delusion. I'd assumed that the expensive, ritzy-looking eateries I frequent would be among the cleanest and that the "dives" with cheap food would be questionable. Turns out, on my list, it's the other way around. One of my favorite "slightly expensive" place to eat — a place I dined last week, in fact — just got a score of 70 to barely earn a "C." That is very low. (There's nothing lower than a "C." 69 or below, they post the number instead of a letter, and those establishments usually scurry to correct flaws and get re-evaluated. Either that or they get closed down.) On the other hand, the place where I get my greasy dim sum -- my favorite being Hom Sui Gok (I like to think of them as little ediable footballs that always score a touchdown with me and my tummy, when I am not running to the bathroom) scored in the nineties for an "A," as did many places I wouldn't have expected. Trust me, if you saw the grease dripping from those "footballs" -- you would be surprised too.
By the way: If you do sign up there, don't read the details of those inspections. Even the ones that get the top grades have something wrong back in the kitchen. You don't really want to know what's in your frankfurters, either.
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