Case: While the chimichanga tasted great, i had diarrhea for atleast a week. Place did not look clean. I lived in guatemala for a while, and i like street food, but this just looked dirty.  Their sanitation standards looked sketchy
Classification: ide


Case: Don't let the unassuming facade fool you - this is a good time bar.  Nestled behind various car maintenance facilities (a brake shop or somesuch), Noreen's doesn't look like much, but if you inject it with some friends and a few drinks you can change that in a jiffy.  (Did you know a jiffy is actually 1/100th of a second?  It's true!  Look it up!)\n\nIt's your typical neighborhood bar with typical neighborhood bar prices.  (A couple of bucks for a beer, a buck or two more for well drinks.)  They've got ye olde internet jukebox so you can confuse the regulars with a rock block of New Kids on the Block or get them all a-boogieing' in their acid wash to some Journey.  They've got a few fairly well maintained pool tables.  But, most importantly and uniquely, they have air hockey.  Yes, you read right - air hockey.  Anyone who's anyone knows there's nothing like having a couple of beers and then risking your slightly numbed fingers to the fury of the thin flying disk that is the air hockey puck, propelled forward by another's slightly inebriated arm.  It's fun, it's competitive, it's slightly dangerous.  \n\nIf a bar fight almost breaks out, the bartender is kind enough to get the offending party to take off and leave you and your non-trouble-making, kind-hearted friends to continue with your good-natured play.  (Your friends ARE kind hearted, non-trouble-makers, right?)  Basically, if you're down for something other than the typical billiards and shuffleboard, but you still just want a cozy place and a cheap beverage, Noreen's got your number.
Classification: twoness


Case: I have participated in plenty of Sunday Fundays in my lifetime but this trumps all. A definite top 10 best party experience ever, right up there with St Pattys in Savannah, Cabo Wabo, Bourbon Street and the good ol college days of burning couches in Boulder. Don't even think of going with anyone who might have a problem getting mostly naked in front of beautiful people. Of course, I'd only go to Vegas with my top notch party crew, and this was our mecca... Especially after a lame evening of finding nothing but mostly short, ugly men at XS on Sat night (hey, we're all tall chicks). We stayed at the Encore and with a quick call over to Rehab by the nice woman at the front desk we were VIP and got to the front of the line. At $20 a pop, that wasn't such a bad deal at all to gawk at hot men and women all afternoon and dance our asses off in questionable-colored water. I gotta say we saw it all: boy on boy, girl on girl, boy on girl on boy. Whatever your thing is, you'll get plenty of it. If I ever get the chance to go again, I'll bring 40 friends instead of just 3 and get there at 9am.
Classification: twoness


Case: Guy Savoy, despite its accolades, did not do it for me. With the exception of the tomato salad dish over dry ice, nothing stuck out to me as impressive. The colors of caviar was just not something I enjoyed. The desserts are pretty damn good.\n\nIt was an OK meal for the price of a car payment or two more round trip flights to Vegas.
Classification: ide


Case: I remember when they first opened years ago and I liked this place. They've expanded and remodeled the place. Along with that was a decline in the quality of their food. My friend and I shared a medium half everything, half pepperoni pizza and rainbow cookies. \n\nPizza:\nWhat the heck happened to their crust? It was like eating a cracker - pale and flavorless. What the heck happened to the pizza? It's just not as good as the last time I've been here. I had to fix it by dousing it with hot sauce. 2/5\n\nRainbow Cookies:\nWhen I think of rainbows, I think happy thoughts. I tried their rainbow cookies and I was hoping my trip to New York was soon enough so I can get the real deal. This brought me great disappointment. It was dry and tasted so artificial. Never again will I try rainbow cookies from this town if it's not from Bagel Cafe. 1/5
Classification: ide


Case: I ordered the Chinese orange chicken lunch special with fried rice and house dressing on my salad. The dressing was really good!! Taste like coconut! The orange sauce for the chicken was very orange tasting. The fried rice was flavorful.
Classification: twoness
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There seems to be a cycle in new Madison restaurants lately: \n\n1. Open your doors,\n2. Bring in guests on the novelty factor,\n3. Fail to offer a clean vision of what you're trying to do, \n4. Stay afloat for a year or so, perhaps on strength outside your food,\n5. Bring in a new executive chef,\n6. Success in all things!\n\nGates & Brovi seems to be around steps 2 or 3 in the cycle. Given that they're run by the same folks who bring us such delight at Sardine, I'm confused at what they're trying to accomplish out Nakoma way.\n\nIs the \""date night\"" full lobster dinner also going to come in a red plastic basket? Does my melted butter come in a small paper cup?\n\nFor a restaurant with all the trappings of a barbecue joint (the baskets, the low end paper napkins which might as well be wrapping plasticware, the poor selection of non-beer drinks) there's only a faint nod towards BBQ in the form of a roasted pork sandwich. \n\nI'm not really sure what G&B is trying for. Perhaps they want to be a simple neighborhood joint, and I just don't live in the neighborhood. Maybe it didn't help that my first attempt to go was at the end of a lovely stroll on a Monday evening only to be unpleasantly surprised that they were closed. [Which is a thing that restaurants can do, food service can have their own weekend, but there's either a certain level of cuisine or a Mom and Pop behind the counter. G&B meets neither of these.]\n\nNeither my sandwich nor my friend's was memorable. The waitress seemed easily confused by our requests, and pretty much vanished at several points. I might be convinced to try out the bar if I happen to be in the neighborhood, but otherwise I'll be giving G&B a rest for a few months to see if they make it to steps 5 and 6 in the cycle.