dougk, you have completely read me wrong, I do not have contempt for the restaurant industry, I have contempt for the people of this town. I applaude any and all restaurant owners for having the balls to open an establishment in a town that has a…

VGS.... I agree that most restaurants that are sucessful in large cities have the bistro feel. That is exactly my point though....people in this town think that is FINE DINING!!! If you were to put these customers in Alain Ducasse in New York th…

A perfect example, here is the guy filming in Buffalo promoting buffalo, and his answer to the fine dining question is...we are not at the level of the "BIG CITIES", so we better show Tony, a self professed cook, drunk, and ex herion addict, the i…

And I should add that it is not only the restaurants that need to bring up there game, it is the general public. We need to support the small locally owned establishments. I drive by Olive Garden nightly and I want to scream. We bitch about our …