Just review the food, not the city
IT’S hard to fathom what belittling a city brings to a restaurant review [“Energy Enough to Shout About,” Dec. 7]. At the very least, the attitude should be somewhat subtle and not blatant ridicule. If this sounds like petulance, well, maybe it is.
What does, [S. Irene Virbila’s comment] “Long Beach? That’s right: It’s not a town that’s particularly known for its dining scene” add to determining the merits of a restaurant?
And toward the end of the review, [she says] “Biggs is so foreign to the Long Beach scene it might as well have dropped down from the moon.” There are a couple of others, but you get the point.
Sure, I understand we are poor benighted folks way down here in Long Beach and could use some of the only-in-the-Westside culinary experience.
But cut a little slack and just tell people what you think of Biggs -- which is a really good place -- and leave the condescension out.
JOHN RICHARDS
Long Beach
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