waltertore
2976 posts
Jan 17, 2017
4:28 PM
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We are rated #46 out of the tens of thousands of restaurants nationwide on Yelp. It has been a wonderful 1st year serving real deal NY pizza and employing people with disabilities. Walter
https://www.yelpblog.com/2017/01/yelps-top-100-places-eat-2017
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" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
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JInx
1291 posts
Jan 17, 2017
7:16 PM
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Bless your heart
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Bass410man
110 posts
Jan 17, 2017
7:50 PM
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Congratulations Walter! That's a great thing there.
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kudzurunner
6156 posts
Jan 17, 2017
7:53 PM
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Walter:
Try as I might, I was unable to pull up the Yelp website nationally. It would only come up for Oxford, MS. It's very weird. I can't just go to Yelp and search for the top 100 restaurants nationally.
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kudzurunner
6157 posts
Jan 17, 2017
7:56 PM
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But yes: the link you gave us does indeed work, and there are indeed 100 restaurants. It's an interesting list. Definitely not the Michelin Guide! They mostly seem to be eateries, not "fine dining." Normal, everyday places that most folks would feel quite comfortable in.
"They serve the most insanely delicious and perfectly cooked pizza with fair prices!' Can't argue with that!
You guys should feel great about this.
Smiling With Hope Pizza
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Jan 17, 2017 7:58 PM
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waltertore
2977 posts
Jan 17, 2017
8:15 PM
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Thanks everyone. We are also the top rated pizzeria and restaurant in Reno. Pizza is food of the people and yelp brings in a lot of out of town/state/country customers. Most are very serious foodies and it is fun to serve them some good pies. Our main goal is to hire people with disabilities and raise awareness in hope others will hire them also. Walter
A number cruncher friend sent me this tonight. "Yelp has 624,301 food places at last count putting you in the top 0.007%" We also are on an app in the new Mini Coopers called destinations America or something like that. I have collaborated with a Michelin 2 star chef - legendary French chef - Laurent Manrique. I can hang with the big boys but prefer to make pizza :)
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
Smiling With Hope Pizza-pizza with a social cause
my videos
Last Edited by waltertore on Jan 17, 2017 11:15 PM
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kudzurunner
6160 posts
Jan 18, 2017
4:41 PM
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I didn't realize you had that pedigree. But it helps explain why you're banging out such good pizza. No, I was just pleasantly surprised by the Top 100 list. I'm not really a fan of the high-end white-tablecloth places. (Although I'm a huge fan of Joe Bastianich's RESTAURANT MAN: one of the funniest and best books, of any sort, that I've ever read. I laughed out loud once a page for 200 pages, seriously.) My mother took my wife and me to Blue Hill. Are you familiar with it? Our dinner had 18 courses. I mean literally 18 courses. Most of them consisted of five or six green beans, or half a dozen charred savory-oiled carrots, suspended from intricate machinery. I almost starved by the time we arrived at the seventh course. The words "precious" and "locavore foodie wet dream" certainly applied, as well as the words "extremely expensive," and therefore "trendy as hell" and "impossible to get a reservation at." My mom knows everybody in the kitchen. She's a legend among locavore foodies--and justly so. (Google "Joan Gussow"). For her, it's the ultimate place to eat. For me, though, it was just too much--or too little. I like plates of food, with sauce. But that's just me.
I've never been to Reno, but when I get there, I'll stop by and we'll jam. :)
Here's Blue Hill at Stone Barns, the place I'm talking about:
Blue Hill @ Stone Barns
Y'all think I'm exaggerating. $238 per person for a "grazing, pecking, rooting" menu. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page:
Grazing, pecking, rooting menu
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Jan 18, 2017 4:47 PM
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waltertore
2978 posts
Jan 18, 2017
8:44 PM
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Adam: My work with Laurent was smoking duck breasts for duck burgers and sandwiches in his French cafe on the square in Sonoma CA. It came about from my playing private parties for the winery owners of Sonoma/Napa. The guy that makes all the barrels for wine from Cognac France put them on at his mansion in Sonoma County and he loved my music. We smoked meats and salmon together and he gave me 50lb bags of tan oak chips they use to flavor the wines. They added a great smoked flavor. My friend in Bodega was a commercial salmon fisherman and would drop off fish on his way to the Berkley Farmers Market in trade for my brisket. I brought a smoked brisket to one of the parties. They would bring in chefs from France and Italy for these get togethers. Laurent and his partners loved my brisket and deemed me their smoke master. I learned Texas BBQ down in Austin. Here is the story. It got scary. http://www.sfgate.com/restaurants/article/Plagued-by-activists-foie-gras-chef-changes-tune-2555486.php
Blue Hill is on Yelp so they were in the 624k food places that are part of the top 100. Just read up on your mother and the restaurant. Man, that is way top shelf stuff and you should be proud to have such a mother. I learned cooking and music from the old masters. No culinary school in my background. I worked my way up from dishwasher so it is kind of fun for a no frills concept to edge out the big guns once in a while :-) .
https://www.yelp.com/biz/blue-hill-at-stone-barns-pocantico-hills
Please do stop in when in Reno. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
Smiling With Hope Pizza-pizza with a social cause
my videos
Last Edited by waltertore on Jan 18, 2017 11:42 PM
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