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Seasoned restaurant reviewers know to wait until a place is actually open before recommending it
By adamg on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 1:44pm
Boston Thrillist today crowns Suya Joint as Roslindale's newest must-try restaurant:
For Nigerian food that actually is too good to be true, hit Suya Joint. ... Starters include thinly sliced beef/ chicken kebabs (Suya!) dry-rubbed in a blend of Nigerian tankora spices (like groundnuts, cayenne pepper, paprika), baked ground beef pies, a spicy signature stew of slowly simmered oxtail (say that 10 times fast!), and crispy deep-fried fritters made from peppers, onions, and black-eyed peas -- order these early as they tend to sell out quickly.
Only problem is the joint isn't actually open yet - unless the newspapers still covering the windows when I walked by about 10 minutes ago are some mysterious Nigerian decorating style (I'm writing this over a tuna melt on a bagel at Select Cafe).
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Comments
Thrillist
Regularly recommends places that aren't open yet. They're basically a press release distribution service.
I also could give it a pass for being a press release....until..
...until I read the blurb about how their fritters "tend to sell out fast." Which has got to be difficult when they haven't been open to sell anything yet.
I think the owner has run a catering service.
Maybe the fritters always run out first at events they catered.
;~}
Wow, nice racism there
"though hopefully not the kind that starts with, "This extremely genial prince stole $22,000 from my checking account!"
Charming.
Not racism
419 scams are named 419 scams because that's the section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that deals with fraud.
This isn't about race. It's about Nigeria...which is home to the most advance-fee fraud cases in the world.
Curious about Thrillist
I wonder if Thrillist is owned by the parent company that also pinches out articles for "The Next Great Generation," one of the most blatantly-corporate "news" blogs on the internet.
Select Cafe
You eat at that place? their coffee is ok and if your in the mood for week old bagels than maybe this is the place for you.
To each his own
I've never had a problem with the bagels (no, they are not NY or Kupel's), they have WiFi and I like the atmosphere.