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Beezlegrunk t1_ixtctr7 wrote

Reply to comment by HeadyBeersBrah in Looking for a Jewish bakery in RI with homemade bagels. Any suggestions? TYIA! by Deracinated

Depends on where else you’ve lived. Everybody here is somehow convinced the food is great, but if you’ve lived in NYC or SF (and probably LA — don’t know, never lived there), you know most food in RI is pretty second- and third-rate (at best). Sorry …

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HeadyBeersBrah t1_ixuumu2 wrote

I lived in SF for many years, we stack up nicely. As good? Probably not, but we have excellent restaurants all over. Just because NYC one of the greatest cities in the world has a better scene (how many millions of people live in each of the boroughs?) doesn't mean RI food sucks. I mean come on.

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Beezlegrunk t1_ixwbqwh wrote

“Stack up nicely”? “Excellent restaurants all over”? The Mission District alone — a neighborhood — has better Latino food than all of RI, and probably Boston too. Ditto the Richmond and Sunset for Asian food, which crushes Boston’s and wouldn’t bother dignifying RI’s smattering of mostly bland, substandard fare. RI has SF beat for seafood, and maybe Italian, but that’s about it.

I don’t know where you lived in SF or what you ate, but the two are miles apart culinarily. RI’s only real claim to fame is in comparison to other small cities, where it does punch above its weight. But it cannot go head to head with much bigger and more diverse metro areas, and having Johnson and Wales does not change that …

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drthsideous t1_ixue7bf wrote

Bingo! I grew up in and currently live in NYC. These guys trying to tell me their Asian food is amazing. Flushing Queens would like to have a word with them. I hate NYC, like fucking hate it. But the food is amazing. And I love RI, I'd kill to be able to move back, but the food is mostly bad. And I've lived way more places than most people, all over the country, so I'd like to think I've got a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about.

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