Why is it so hard to find restaurants that serve good food?

Question

I grew up eating Japanese food, prepared by my family members who were born and grew up in Tokyo. We have a rule in our house...if you walk into a Japanese restaurant, specially a sushi bar, and it smells like they are cooking or serving fish, just walk away quietly. There are too many storefront restaurants serving junk, and what's even scarier is that people actually think they are eating good food. It's not just Japanese food, try looking for a good Mexican restaurant (the only one's you'll find that are well worth your money are the ones packed with local hispanics), or authentic Indian food (everyone serves murgh makhani and tandoori chicken for the American crowd). I am not prissy at all, much of the time, I eat in what you might call "hole in the wall" kinda places, because they are packed, cheap, and usually serve good food. But it is so hard to find restaurants that are worth your time!!!

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my point was that the only restaurants that you'll find worth your time are packed full with locals. what I'm asking about is, why is it so hard to find those specific ones...

Answer 1

Here's a suggestion: STOP BEING SO PICKY! Even if a restaurant is filled with locals, go to it anyway if there's nothing else around. I go to restaurants filled with many different ethnic groups, and I'm not the one complaining about it. Just DEAL WITH IT!

Answer 2

Why do you want to go to a restaurant?
My experiences with restaurants are mostly bad especially in the UK and in the Netherlands.
The salads have little taste, vegetable are cooked in water and so without any taste.
The meat is not tender or meager when it might be savoury, so with little taste.
Chicken are dry and not eatable.
Fish prepared without butter and so with little taste.
In Spain fish is often grilled without any protection, called by me the stone age kitchen.
Very often the pastes are not prepared "al dente", the northern countries way, I call it fodder for pork.
But why the cooks should they try to prepare tender, savoury and harmoniously spiced meals with herbs and spices for clients who had never in their lives experienced those meals because they have eaten at home out of the fridge and at school and at the office in cantines?
Eating is a matter of taste. Of course "of taste" and not "of without taste".
People who declare that they can eat all can't have very sensible gustatory papillas. They may be very nice people but don't trust their opinion if they judge about the preparation of a dish.
It is as if you would ask a blind or half blind person to judge about the colours of a paint.

Answer 3

Your right i tend to think they get used to the clientale they r sure pple will always go to their restaurant and have acquiered taste for their food then they start getting sloppy its human nature familiarity breeds contempt of sorts also in business

Answer 4

It is not difficult to find good food , tastes and good service . It depends on where in the world you are