Five Places to Try for OC Restaurant Week

• I thought your article was nice. Some people just have too much time on their hands.

• I'm just happy you didn't list Taco Asylum. A nicely designed place should not have such crappy food.

• The photo actually comes straight off The Next Door's website: http://www.nextdoorsc.com/menus/lunchdinnermenu.html I actually never called this a Top 5 list. It was a list of five places I'm curious about. I'm glad that you questioned my choices. I thought responders would give examples of places they would rather try, or places they think I should try.

• Anne Marie was pretty explicit in her reasoning for Medieval Times—the discount. Hate it as we may, I would agree it's a part of Orange County all of us should visit at least once, if only to witness the madness of it all.

• Gus: I did apologize (twice) for being so harsh! I think what really set me off was seeing Medieval Times on the list. It probably brought on the same feelings you have when readers tried to defend Javier’s as the best Mexican restaurant because of the ambience, location and people watching. Though I agree that ambience and service is part of the restaurant experience, I believe most readers are reading your articles because we want to eat the best FOOD. I have enjoyed eaten at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant you’ve raved about knowing that the food makes up for the service and ambience. Listing Medieval Times on a Top 5 restaurant list is simply a disgrace. Let me also point out that it is also taking a giant step back to the countless articles you, Dave and Edwin have been writing throughout the years to try and banish the stigma that OC is nothing but chain restaurants and whitewashed cuisine (both things Medieval Times clearly falls into...if you consider it a "restaurant"). There are SO MANY other restaurants on the OC Restaurant list that are much more worthy to mention than (insert obscene word here) Medieval Times. Now do you understand what I’m feeling?

• Oh, be nice!

• I am regretfully very disappointed with this post. You are supposed to be a food critic/blogger (aren't you?), so you should be promoting restaurants you have TRIED. The purpose of restaurant week is to discover restaurants you have always wanted to try or considered trying. Readers (such as myself) read your reviews/posts/blogs because we want to hear what you have to say about the restaurants you have eaten and decide for ourselves if the restaurant(s) you recommend would be worth to try. If you're just going to give us a list of places you have not yet tried, I don't understand the point of this article. In addition, I can't believe out of the hundreds of restaurants listed, you selected Medieval Times as a "restaurant" (I use that term loosely) on your list...further adding that you wouldn't go there for the food. Again, you are a FOOD blogger. Any credibility you are trying to establish to your readers about your taste in food just flew out the door by suggesting Medieval Times as a Top 5 restaurant. Finally, if you're trying to encourage our readers to eat at one of your Top 5 restaurants, perhaps select a more appetizing picture for The Next Door in San Clemente. The picture is so horrible looking, I don't even want to try the place because of it. I feel very sorry for the owners who might be excited to see their restaurant on this list only to discover a picture that looked like it was taken from inside of a trash can. If you couldn't find a decent picture, then at least apologize for the look (as Edwin has done tastefully in the past when his camera couldn't focus) I normally let a lot of blogs slide, but this one (I'm sorry) contained too many "errors" and really crossed the line for me. I'll be sticking to reading Gus, Edwin and Dave's reviews (who are consistently on point with what I am looking for when I read OC Weekly Restaurant articles) if you continue on this path.

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