640028 Tue Jul 28 08:11:06 -0700 2009 4 10 Florida 0 4896747 I know I'm a tad late on this but what do you think of the Orlando weekly's Best of edition Food and Drink Category? If you didnt get the paper here is the link on their website. http://www.orlandoweekly.com/features/story.asp?id=13299 My problem really isn't with the Weekly's picks it's the readers poll that drives me nuts. I wish the Orlando weekly would just omit all national chains from the poll. The best of Orlando should be specfic to Orlando and should be places that you can't go to anywhere else, or at the very list be florida specific. Tue Jul 28 08:11:06 -0700 2009 235812 Sandwich_Sister 1 4897127 That list is horrible. Not much I agree with. I'm shocked the readers didn't pick Olive Garden or something as the best Italian, lol. Tue Jul 28 09:53:27 -0700 2009 4896747 202452 Corporate_40 1 4897770 Agreed. No national chains anyway. I think local chains should be allowed, because sometimes they reason they become chains is because they are tremendously good. Tue Jul 28 13:13:01 -0700 2009 4896747 81820 starbucksbrew 1 4898560 Agree completely but you know the national chains have advertising budgets. Figure newspapers are hurting pretty bad these days! Tue Jul 28 17:42:23 -0700 2009 4896747 97248 meginAB 2 5090111 FWIW, those reader's ballots are actual tabulated reader votes. No money is changing hands. (At least, not into the Weekly's hands.) And omitting the national chains wouldn't really be fair — if that's what people vote for, that's what wins. Thu Oct 08 21:06:04 -0700 2009 4898560 71006 waffle789