So, The Phantom Gourmet is a local restaurant “review” show on one of the local regular-type-broadcast channels. It’s kind of horrible in that every episode seems to be about where you can go to get the giantest, most fried food in the greatest quantities for the lowest price and the lowest common denominator. To be fair, I’ve discovered some okay restaurants because of them, as they actually pay attention to the suburbs (including the less affluent ones, i.e. where I live) and because of them I know where to get pretty decent Chinese within minutes of home. They have also covered some places that I like a lot, so I can’t knock all of their choices. It would be real nice, though, if they could do a show on places to go eat that aren’t disgustingly excessive fall-of-civilization-type places to eat. Read the rest of this entry »