this might be your first negative review since becoming food editor. thank god. now if you'd just get the balls to shit talk a restaurant that wasn't McMenamins.

Ha Ha! And who right now isn't thinking of that Simpson's when Homer was the restaurant critic?

I liked "there was a violence to it," as a descriptor. You know, I often wonder if McMenamins has any idea that the consensus on all their joints runs along the lines of "expensive, mediocre beer, useless house liquor and wines, service staff that runs the gamut from uninterested to aggressively incompetent, but hey...nice buildings."

They probably don't care; they still make money. And hell, where else are you going to go in -say- Roseburg or Centralia?

"expensive, mediocre beer, useless house liquor and wines, service staff that runs the gamut from uninterested to aggressively incompetent, but hey...nice buildings."

There is nothing to add, this is totally accurate.

"There is nothing to add, this is totally accurate. "

Except for the part where they keep getting lots of customers and make profits. Year over year. Must be doing something right ya'll are missing.