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Welcome to my food review page. This is a no frills, half assed review page! I’m not a writer or a food connoisseur but I love eating. Don’t expect anything too elaborate. I’m not trying to sell anything here or get followers so even the photos will be average.

I feel like food, similar to music, is subjective and everyone has their own preferences, so please read the following so you can get an idea of what foods I like and how I rate them. 

The reason I made this is because friends are always asking me where to eat and it’s easier to share a blog than to share the note file in my phone of 300 restaurants. Another reason is there is no review page that only focuses on the food (hence the name of the website), google is flooded with 1-star reviews because the waitress wasn’t friendly or 5-star reviews because there was a nice view out the window. On top of that, I can never tell if influencers have been paid to give good reviews in their videos. I don’t care if I have to wait 1 hour for my food or if the waiter treats me poorly. The price, service and presentation do not affect the ratings here, a worker could tell me to piss off while handing me the food and I would still give them 5 stars! Keep in mind I may comment on such things, but it will have no impact on the rating.

Why did I make my own website and not an Instagram page? Mainly because I don’t like social media or the idea of making videos BUT ALSO so I can index the posts, add tags and make them all searchable so you can specifically look up a cuisine or location. Social media videos are near impossible to search. I’m hoping this gets adopted by other foodies as well! The number of videos influencers like Issac have made and the one time I’m in Woolongong, I can never find his damn Woolongong videos!

How my rating system works

5-Stars – This is reserved for the best. It will mostly be unique items that aren’t offered elsewhere. Worth making the trip out to try! 

Note: This doesn’t mean the whole menu is amazing, there may only be 1 thing they sell that justified the 5-star rating. I will give these per cuisine so don’t compare 5-star ratings against each other.

4-Stars – Above average, top of the range, you will definitely enjoy it, but it may compare to other good food you’ve tried before. These are my go-to places.

3-Stars – I know 3-stars seems like a poor rating. If you saw 3 stars on a google review, you would definitely avoid the place but for me this is the rating for good/standard food. It’s the base where anything below this would be considered bad. 

1&2-Stars – I’m still not sure how to separate these so at the moment anything with this rating is in the bad range. There won’t be a lot of them as I tend to not save them on my personal food list (I originally made it to recommend restaurants, not rate them all). I will start adding them from now on though.
UPDATE: Due to the impact bad ratings have on small businesses, I’ll only be adding 1-2 Stars if it feels warranted. There are some genuine people trying to make a living and there are some just buying a restaurant/franchise to make profit with no care for the food.

Half Stars – When I can’t choose between 2 stars then I’ll add a .5

To give you an idea of the food I like… 

– I’m a fan of Gumshara ramen, a lot of people can’t stand it because it’s too rich, fatty or salty. You can check their google reviews and they are on both ends of the spectrum. I’d give this place 5 stars without hesitation. 

– I can’t stand al dente pasta… I always joke that al dente pasta is just undercooked pasta, but the Italians were too stubborn to admit they cooked it wrong, so they made it a thing. They will cook 2-minute noodles for 1 minute and call it al dente

I may post updates on different cuisines so you can understand my thought process.

I’m currently submitting reviews for places I’ve been to years ago (some over 7 years). The publish date does not reflect the time I ate there.

I will update this when I am up to date and am submitting current reviews.