Reviews & Transparency

From time to time I may get invited to launch events for new restaurants or other interest groups. Such events include my experiences at Joey Don Mills, The Aquaculture Alliance's Seafood Extravaganaza or The Roosevelt Room. Charlie's Burgers or the Victoria Gin launch party are also examples. In these cases, my blog posts are typically event reviews and not restaurant reviews.

In an effort to establish consistency on Sift, Dust & Toss, I won't give a formal restaurant review unless it is indicated in the title of the post & assigned a star anise ranking such as the following:

Rating: 5/5
Exceptional
Sock-knocking flavours & ideas

Rating: 4/5

Good
Better than I would have made

Rating: 3/5

Noted

Good effort made

Rating: 2/5

Vanilla
Disapointing or basic

Rating: 1/5

Heartbreaking
Not good

I've only done a couple of formal reviews for restaurants like Osteria, Ciceri e Tria and The Black Hoof because I wanted to devote more attention to them and maintain an exacting standard. Now that I've articulated and posted these ratings publicly, I hope to do more reviews in the future.

For other policies about transparency on Sift, Dust & Toss, please refer to the blogging code.