Fix Foobooz!

If you don’t live in Philly or care about food, restaurants, and people writing about those things, you probably won’t care about this post. 

Foobooz is a blog about food and booze (get it?) in Philly. Or at least, it used to be. Now, its a blog about insider restaurant gossip. It’s the water-cooler talk of your servers. Or, as Ashley Primis put it in this interesting bit of self reflection, it  “cover[s] the city’s food scene like ESPN covers sports”.

When I first moved to Philly, Foobooz was a great blog. It kept me up to date on what bar had what awesome specials, which restaurants were serving interesting or innovative new dishes, what was worth the price, and what wasn’t. It was like having that friend thats lived here forever and knows all the best places and what to avoid. It was a great way to learn about interesting new restaurants that were off the beaten path, great little neighborhood places that inevitably had the best food.

But not any more. Now the majority of their content is about staffers getting into fights with each other, people quitting to open their own places and getting sabotaged, etc. It’s all inside baseball, all industry gossip.

All this goes by way of saying that the food editor of Philly Magazine, ie the person in charge of Foobooz, wrote an interesting piece lamenting this change. It’s a problem I’ve written about before, in fact. Here’s hoping she intends to fix things.

Also, I figured something not involving guns or the fiscal cliff was in order.

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