I will never understand why we have an Epicurean Thread with restaurant info and a Travel thread with Restaurant info? I think it creates a lot of confusion. Epicurean by definition involves eating and drinking!
There are two kinds of foodies. Those who know how to cook the most delicious smoked brisket and those who know which restaurant has the most delicious smoked brisket. That’s the split.
Thread titles like this serve no benefit, of course, but perhaps that’s Jay’s mindset in posting it, who knows.
When traveling, one typically eats at restaurants, so it’s hard to differentiate them properly - we didn’t move ANY threads over to the renamed forum, fyi. I could combine all of them in one but that makes no sense: Travel, Wine Tourism, Restaurants, Recipes?? The ‘old’ style was all food related threads in one forum - recipes and restaurants, but most often people were talking about restaurants while traveling, so if they were traveling somewhere, and had info about restaurants, where would they post? Travel and Tourism or Food? Most often those restaurant threads within the context of a trip somewhere had a combination of information on the trip itself (often including winery visits, etc) as well as mentioning the restaurant.
Todd,
Everyone eats but not everyone cooks.
Everyone eats, but not everyone travels.
Those that travel don’t necessarily post on restaurants, travel experiences etc. as that may not be the focus.
I post more frequently in this forum, primarily because we eat out a little less, Mobile has become somewhat BYOB unfriendly, I can’t drink as much wine as I used to so put more effort into the food.
All that to say, it would be nice to see more food posts here. I tend to not post recipes for the food I cook unless asked.
I therefore have no solution, but would definitely like to see more traffic.
Just out of curiosity, how do the page views for this thread stack up?
Todd - Thank you for asking. As a frequent contributor to the restaurant city threads I would first prefer them all in one place. For example you have NYC in the travel section and most others in epicurean. I would vote for Epicurean. I tend to think of travel as airlines, hotels, points, questions around itineraries etc. My interest in food whether its in a restaurant in LA, NY, Paris etc. or cooking at home is the same. Hope that helps.