Restaurant/ Café Scales

I always find food review being the hardest to write because everyone has a different palate: a plus for me does not necessarily be the same for you. And flavour itself is also too abstract to be described; I can describe the texture, the ingredients and the presentation but not until the food is actually in your mouth, you will never know the taste of it. So the idea of reviewing a restaurant/ café on a more objective scale came to my mind. I guess a food outlet can both be good or bad, depending on what one is after. I hope that this scale review method will give a better sense of what a particular restaurant/ café provides, so you can choose the right place for your next event!

我一直認為食評是世界上最難寫得好的，因為口味是因人而異的嘛：對我來說的好味並不代表你也一定喜歡。加上味道本身也是很抽象的；我可以形容食物的質地，陳述食材和擺盆，但在食物真正在你的嘴裏之前，你是不會知道它的味道的。所以我想用一個比較客觀的方法來介紹一間餐廳/咖啡店。我認為每一間食肆既可以是好也可能會有不足，視乎你期望的是什麼。我希望這種「尺評」方式能令大家更容易按自己的需要來選擇到合適的食肆！

I have thought about what we as the customer would care the most and created separate scales for restaurants and cafés. So the scale works like this: each category has a bar with different criteria on the 2 ends; for each restaurant/ café reviewed, I will place a red dot to indicate if it lies more to one than the other; it can also be well-balanced and I will place the dot in the middle. Of course this is all based on my personal experience and therefore not 100% objective; but hopefully these scales can provide you with a clearer idea of what to expect there.

我想了想大家到餐廳或咖啡店時最注重的會是什麼，繼而為餐廳和咖啡店分別設計了6個獨立的「尺評」。「尺評」的運作如下：每把尺的兩端各代表不同標準；我會用一個紅點來表示該餐廳/咖啡店的定位，可以是較偏重於其中一邊或者兩者平衡的話，紅點會被放置在中間。當然，這些都是基於我個人的經驗，因此不會是100％的客觀，但希望「尺評」能令你對這些餐廳/咖啡店有更清晰的了解。

Restaurant Scales 餐廳尺評

Café Scales 咖啡店尺評