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Authors: Robin Goldstein, Rebecca Markovits, Monika Powe Nelson
Publisher: Off the Map Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

10 reviews
Sales Rank: 505751

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5 x 1.1

ISBN: 0974014338
Dewey Decimal Number: 647.950976431
EAN: 9780974014333
ASIN: 0974014338

Publication Date: May 1, 2006
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Brutally honest, cheeky, and fiercely independent, the Fearless Critic is the definitive restaurant guide to the Austin area. Acclaimed critic Robin Goldstein has teamed with a secret panel of local critics to create a 416-page blockbuster of a book. The critics dine incognito, accepting no free meals and no ads from restaurants. Prepare to be shocked by the results: this is a new breed of food writing.

The book includes more than 400 brutally honest reviews, rigorous grades (with no grade inflation), and helpful cross-referenced lists that cover every corner of Austin's eclectic dining scene, from the power steakhouses to Hill Country BBQ shrines, wine bars to breakfast taco stands. It's an essential reference for anyone who eats out in the Austin area, including Bee Cave, Cedar Park, Dripping Springs, LakeTravis area, Lockhart, Marble Falls, Oak Hill, Pflugerville, Round Rock, and the Hill County.

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1 out of 5 stars

Useless June 10, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

What could be a great resource for local restaurants is not very helpful. My experiences differ greatly from most of their reviews. This is clearly subjective reporting hyping the restaurants of friends and knocking the restaurants that are only guilty of being popular eateries and therefore subject to the scorn of the authors to sell books. The literary equivalent of Jerry Springer; appealing the our lowest voyeuristic vices. Try Zagat for objectivity.

5 out of 5 stars

Tells It like it is! April 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a great book with honest (not always nice) reviews of so many Austin restaurants.

5 out of 5 stars

I wouldn't go to Austin without it December 6, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I find myself in Austin on business trips quite often and my experience would be quite different if I didn't have my Fearless Critic Guide with me. The reviews are not only accurate and thorough but they are really funny. The owners of some of the bad restaurants they pan must be very unhappy but I am extremely happy to be able to avoid those places. And who knows, maybe those owners will take the accurate and insightful opinions of these writers to heart and make some changes - in time for the next edition of this great book.

5 out of 5 stars

thank you for writing this book January 11, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

Have lived in Austin almost 20 years - picked this book up to keep for out-of-town guests to use, ended up reading it like a novel and tabbing many, many pages of new places I want to eat. Better than a Zagat's-style guide, it's witty, intelligent, and dead-on accurate (so far). Have now given it as a gift to numerous people - here's a great gift idea: buy this book and insert a gift card to a highly-rated restaurant on the page where it's reviewed.

5 out of 5 stars

great book for austinites December 28, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

this is a great book for all austinites - the reviews are really funny, and there are also a lot of really helpful lists of restaurants by cuisine and by neighborhood. they also have a really cool section where they pick the best of austin. i totally agree about trudy's having some of the best migas in the city!

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