Welcome!

Welcome to Horny for Food, the Bay Area (and the world!) food blog by Berkeley food personality David J.D.!

My decision to start this site came from my frustration with both internet restaurant sites like Chow Hound and CitySearch and conventional newspaper reviews. All that the internet sites usually offer are peoples' (who can't use apostrophes correctly) ill-informed opinions with little foundation, knowledge, or rationale. They'll make judgments and declarations without articulating the all-important "why" behind their complaints. Newspaper reviews often just read as a rote description of the menu interspersed with flowery adjectives and details of minor food or service hiccups blown up into disasters of epic proportions.

At Horny for Food, here's what you WON'T get:
- you'll never here me use phrases like "the Caesar salad just didn't work" or "the server was clueless" or "poor wine list."
- the words "danced across my palate"
- bitching about portion size, noise, or how cold a restaurant is
- hanging prepositions
- stars, bells, numbers, dollar signs, letter grades or any other objective rating of a restaurant
- syphilis

You WILL, however, get:
- one guy's opinion (mine) grounded in my industry experience, food and drink knowledge, personal cooking adventures, and a hefty dumpster full of love
- detailed course-by-course discussion of my meals at restaurants wherever I go (mostly in the SF Bay Aea) interspersed with rants, diatribes, and manifestos about food and dining issues in general
- an understanding of MY taste in food and dining to see if it matches your own (and whether you should give a fuck about the views on this site)
- a brief capsule description of what was eaten, how many people ate it, and how much it cost
- gonorrhea

All I can promise is that everything I write will be grounded, articulate, and (most importantly) informed. You may not agree with it, and that's alright. At least it'll be interesting.

Enjoy.