Don’t Go There!

Peter’s new book, Don’t Go There: The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World, goes on sale in stores on Nov. 11, 2008.

To promote his latest book, Peter is heading out on a book tour around the country. Find out if he’ll be speaking and signing copies in your city …

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Peter Greenberg talking about his upcoming book tour.  Find out if he’ll be speaking and signing copies in your city.

Now I am a vegetarian and before you give me any crap for it let me say that I don’t make fun of you for eating meat. Anyways I ordered myself a yummy bean burrito and I get it to my table and I look at it, which is a habit you get into when you don’t eat something. Well I look at it and I am like whoa I almost ate that. So I go up to the lady at the counter and tell her bean burrito has meat in it. She says and I kid you not “enjoy it” I guess it is more expensive with meat in it. So I tell her that I got a bean burrito not because I was to frugal to spend an extra 10 cents on meat but because I did not want meat. She rolls her eyes and takes my burrito. They make me a new one and the same thing I check and there is meat so I do something I probably should not have I went up to the lady plopped the open burrito on the counter and said hey there is meat here and she looked at me and I said “enjoy it” and stormed out. I left the place hungry. Vegetarians or anybody who is picky about their food don’t go there.

Written by: Hungry Vegetarian

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Dined at Galatoire’s back in 2000 and loved it. Went with my wife for anniversary on June 20, 08. Wait staff reminded me of a lower quality restaraunt (not charming). We started with a lack of bread plates which meant our “crusty french bread” crumbs went EVERYWHERE. That’s not too big a deal though. We had our salads and they were mediocre. Had better, had worse. Then the real magic or lack therof started. I ordered a stuffed eggplant only to learn that this was not stuffed eggplant at all, but rather a mushy ball of eggplant, and seafood that tasted litterally like watered down mushy, cold grits. Very little taste. This item was on the “specialties list” arg. My wife, a vegetarian, ordered the vegetable grill, which she has enjoyed from places in town like Commanders Palace and the Court of 2 sisters. However this gril was awful. They just sliced up a few veggies layin’ around and stuck them over the coals a few minutes. No taste, no creativity by the kitchen staff. I figure that if a restaurant cannot cook vegetables well, it is very indicative of the remainder of thier menu. I will not return to Galatoire’s again.

Written by: Anonymous

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