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Yenching Restaurant
📍 Address: 1326 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐ (2.5)
I once would have given Yenching a solid 3, but now I say: people who don't like Yenching have never tried the house special fried rice or the Shanghai stir-fried rice cakes. The latter is to die for.
WUBurger
📍 Address: 880 Main St, Woburn
⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4)
WuBurger is such a great addition to Woburn. The burgers are delicious as are the fries. The roast beef sandwich is excellent as well. I think the prices are very reasonable (on par with Five Guys). We order all the time from my office, it is so hard to resist. My co-workers rave about the shakes but I haven't tried one yet mainly because I am afraid I might want one every day.
Salsa's
📍 Address: 118 Dorchester St, Boston
⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐ (3)
You know, I really wanted to like this place. I did. Maybe more so because I was close to eating my hand status on Friday night due to extreme hunger. But, no, I am a Mexican food aficionado and this just didn't do it for me. And, plus, I've been to the Hingham location and had a nice experience there a couple of years ago. For starters, there's barely any room to breathe in this place. The space is a little too teeny tiny. I was with a party of 5 gals and we were told that a wait for a table would be about 20-25 minutes. Fine, we were ready to get our marg on anyway. We mosey'ed over to the bar, where I ordered a Patron margarita on the rocks/salt (It was pay day. Don't hate.) I might as well have just ordered a glass of the lime mix instead... since that's all I could taste... probably would have saved me 9 bucks. There seemed to have been a battle royale between the two servers on where my party was going to be seated. We lost a table due to a phantom party of 6 that never arrived while we were dining. So, that tacked on an additional 25 minutes to our wait. We ordered some guacamole and chips at the bar, because it was close to cannibal time at that point if we didn't get something to eat. Alas, we were seated. We ordered another round of beverages. My 2nd Patron margarita was a better than the first... thankfully. I ordered the steak tacos for my meal and they were just... okay. The flavor was there, but some of the meat was a little on the tough side. One of the other girls in my party got the chicken flautas for her meal. They were so overdone in the fryer... your mouth was smacked with the taste of grease... practically unedible. Since we were kind of in a rush to get to a birthday party Downtown, she just let it go and had one of my tacos to hold her over. The reason why I didn't give this place a 1 was because the waitress we ultimately had was really great and super friendly. An expansion is definitely needed for this Salsa's location and they could use a little quality control in the kitchen.
Vinito Ristorante
📍 Address: 4971 International Dr, Orlando
⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐ (3)
Food was great. Prices are responsible. I would've given a higher rating but my son ordered the lasagna and there was a hair in it! We notified the waiter, he offered to make my son another but it took 20 mins. So he just sat there while my husband and I ate... Just a bit inconvenient and gross. Maybe the kitchen should wear hair nets? Maybe a manager could've offered something for the inconvenience? Anyways food is good minus the hair :)
Shut Up and Eat
📍 Address: 3848 SE Gladstone St, Portland
⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4)
This restaurant was amazing. We chose it because it showed on "you gotta eat hear." The portions were huge. The 6" was plenty for myself. The kids food was also tasty and the staff were friendly.
Rustic Kitchen
📍 Address: 210 Stuart St, Boston
⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3.5)
Watch your plate at the RK! The waiter tried to take my salad away before it was done and the wait staff actually removed my dinner and threw it away before I was done. I turned my back to talk to a friend and my plate was whisked away in a second! This is not the place to linger for a relaxed dinner as they don't want you to stay - and the place was more than 1/2 empty on a theater night. Now we know why. My complaints received little symphathy from the manager. Won't be back anytime soon.