I Challenged #1 Rated Restaurants!

[@mariuszarszylo1476]

Haha, when Guga said "Google Reviews" I thought he said Guga Reviews! I'd trust that review over the other two!

[@jaynebyng3278]

Same!

[@aaronmastrogiacomo6078]

Wait, he didn't say guga reviews? Thought he had something like a "one bite" app going.

[@HyperionTechOfficial]

Yea

[@chade7669]

He did say guga reviews

[@MrVovansim]

When he says: "it doesn't matter what ANYONE says. **I** will tell you about the quality of the food" 🤣

[@Masterreddodx6]

About the chicharones. It could be that their serving Puertorican chicharones. Our chicharon are normally just does chopped up pieces of meat, deep friend and served. if you want the skin on version then it Chicharones de cuero

[@Matteffinawesome]

Love it! Do the worst star rated restaurants please!!

[@ryanbrown7894]

Guga just became a GIF at 1:41

[@charlesking678]

He absolutely did! 😂

[@billwendt9571]

Guga - This is YOUR BEST restaurant review to date! GREAT VIDEO! Please do more like this.

[@eateewillis644]

The best part of Gugas reviews is you can read the joy/disgust on his face. Top tier

[@RodStiffinton]

I’m the same way Guga. I’m super picky when and if I go out to eat. I’m usually disappointed, that’s why I just cook at home.

[@MrVovansim]

For me it depends on the food. For simple dishes like steak and potatoes, I would never go to a restaurant, I can make it better at home for 1/3 the price. But there are some things I don't have the time or patience to make, and those are worth going out for.

[@nanoflower1]

@@MrVovansim Agreed. I ate at a ramen place recently that served tonkatsu ramen with a great broth. Something that must have taken hours to make and certainly something I would never want to make at home. But for something simpler like steak or burgers why not just make it at home? Costs less and you can be sure it's made to your particular taste.

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

Same! Cooking is my hobby and I became super into it when I couldn't find a decent restaurant in my city (there are some good ones, but they're so overpriced they're not worth it).

[@IberianCraftsman]

9:50 cod yes we call them (croquetas de bacalao) in Spain, though the most famous are made with meat from making soup "croquetas de cocido" the veggie and meat taste is really good, you have to try them in Spain CROQUETAS.

[@stargazing-tf3fd]

the difference is that guga is painfully realistic, best source

[@PurpleBox89]

14:10 Bro in the back left is just chilling and jamming and living his best life xD

[@jessiep2471]

😂

[@QSSEditorium9981]

It was so subtle you’d miss it 😂

[@whilethevossisaway]

Yes, worst rated restaurants next! I just ate at a local restaurant that didn’t have fantastic reviews, but we actually really enjoyed our main course and dessert . The service was outstanding also . I agree there’s probably a lot of negative reviews because people are salty (and not in a good way)☺️

[@dimasdarmawan8615]

I love when you're reviewing places, guga✨ Make more of these contents 😊❤

[@thezemag]

Great series. Guga is entering his Gordon Ramsay era.

[@livingretro79]

i'm ready for a guga kitchen nightmares and turn these restaurants around

[@svera6446]

Yes Guda i believe alot of places suffer off poor reviews- go ahead n give them try- An blessings🙏🏽 i always love your content

[@BillyBaruch]

I always enjoy your videos, Guga!! After watching this, I looked up the Bocas House menu. They do a Jalea!! I live in the Pittsburgh area and the only Peruvian food you can get here is Pollo a la Brasa. Nobody makes Jalea! Now you got me wanting to go to Florida so I can try it!! 😂

[@Shaosprojects]

Daym Drops did do the best and worst series, and he found that commonly low rated locations are quite good, and some good rated locations were whack I’d love you to try it out too!

[@FossDoggg]

A few years ago, my wife and I got the travel bug. We noticed no Yelp in Europe and Asia so quickly Google became our go to. Yelp is slowly growing there but limited still. Google reviews still is better throughout those parts and I think it is more widely accessible. Yelp also gives benefits to their reviewers really quickly so, to me, it feels like there are less genuine reviews on Yelp because you become a Yelp Elite to get clout. I personally trust Google reviews more. Plus, we all use Google Maps for everything and the reviews are integrated into the map feature much better.

[@vivakatrob13]

While I totally agree as far as travel goes, I was given the Yelp Elite badge and it doesn’t give you anything, just boosts your reviews to the top and gives you a little bit of pride lol. You don’t get paid for more reviews or anything. And mine are equally praising restaurants and the opposite. Yelp also will turn off reviews if there’s a flood of reviews (like after someone posts a horrid review on Facebook and has their friends flood the reviews with negativity)…where Google doesn’t do that. So sometimes you’ll see tons of negative reviews on Google and they don’t flag them.

[@ZeldrisCdsNo1]

Need more restaurant reviewing by guga!!!!

[@bhoustonjr]

FYI: In Panama, where we live, they call the fried plantains Patacones

[@eddyl.salgado1163]

If you ever do central american some day. Try the Vigoron from Nicaragua. It's a combination of yuca, chicharron and fresh Cabbage salad. That's how my mom made it in the past. Enjoy!

[@osopapi6061]

@Guga I have a great idea that I'm sure you've already considered. Restaurants on cruise ships! Come on bro, if you can afford to take $25K 1st class flights; then you can do cruise ship restaurant reviews as well. You can also afford to take me and a guest with you too.

[@dirtrider3526]

Yesss! Please do the worst rated. Seeing a pro cook eating at the worst rated places and giving honest reviews would be great. I believe you are a fair guy and would give a fair review! Plus your knowledge of food and cooking. Would be a great watch!

[@justaguy105]

At least I know one thing from this video... Guga's being honest with us because he told us at least 50 times

[@PalmelaHanderson]

The problem with reviews is that hardly anyone ever feels the need to review something if it was just "okay." You only review things if you loved or hated it so much you have to tell everybody. Probably 90% of people go somewhere, think "well, that's about what I expected" and never think about it again.

[@JairoHernandez]

The chicharron is made the same way we do it in Costa Rica, the skin and meat separate. If you want the skin you ask for it specifically

[@jacijoyce2685]

LOVE this new mode of content!!!! PLEASE PLEASE do the worst

[@surfingninjaassasin]

Guga out there throwing down now days. Making enemies left and right.

[@dontkilImejay]

Love these videos Guga, keep it up man!

[@jordanragin1615]

I think Guga is going to all these restaurants so he can see the competition to open his own....which i am absolutely here for and would gladly travel to Florida to try

[@guyknightley3499]

Opening a restaurant takes a lot more than just being a good cook. But if anyone on youtube could MAYBE do it its Guga. lol

[@bellybutthole69]

@@guyknightley3499 if Uncle Roger is able to , I think Guga would be as well :)

[@luckrzz]

He's going to all these restaurants because he's out of ideas for original videos

[@jperin001]

He should just be an occasional guest meat chef for select restauraunts. Less stress and gets to do only what he loves doing.

[@MrVovansim]

He's filming himself going to these restaurants, because then he can record it as a business expense. 🤣

[@paulmelcher9215]

You could never call this channel "small bites" Guga! Thank you!

[@meat_loves_wasabi]

In Tabelog reviews when it scores 3.5/5 and above it’s a great restaurant … Japanese culture like to moderate things

[@Tobywan83]

Guga I must say. You look buff man! Your time in the gym is really showing!

[@shanidar]

Colombian empanadas do not have to be greasy... they depend on the cooking volume and temperature. Source - I used to live there... The dish of patacones? The dish is not cast iron, it is ceramic and reputed to make dishes taste more delicious. Crunchy/toothbreaker tostones are one thing... I like them soft and tender, with a generous toss of salt...

[@MrVovansim]

8:44 Guga / editors, when Guga tries a dish, could y'all please put a quick little title on the bottom of what it's called? I think that's a causa, but it would be way easier for us who are not in the know to identify the dish and be able to order it on our own at other similar restaurants.

[@trevinated]

Absolutely Guga. Lets see those worst reviewed restaurants!

[@fitnessfoodchronic6618]

Just got my BMS 8-9 Australian Wagyu Picanha today, shipped from Meat n Bone in Miami. My Xmas dinner and I am so stoked!

[@flamesofhellstudio]

South American cheeses, where they LOOK and FEEL like a lot of Italian cheeses, but the TASTE is different, and I agree, unless you have had it it is hard to describe.

[@houstonyeti4496]

Yes, please do the worst restaurant ratings.

[@PickanPop]

Tostones are great with Siracha! A healthy snack (yes, fried foods are healthy, complex carbs, sugar and corn are not). Much better than a potato chip or something else with starch or corn.

[@Brutus0357]

Yelp is usually old people reviewing. The second restaurants appetizer dish looked like all frozen box stuff from a supplier which might explain why it was better than the food they prepared in house.

[@akiblue]

Just like all the butchers rebranded their top sirloin cap as picanha, and tripled the price, all the pubs will now rebrand their mozzarella sticks as tequeños and triple the price!!!

[@ricatiman]

It looks like there are some over-rated restaurants there in Miami. Up here in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, we have more top rated restaurants and Michelin starred restaurants per person than any other city in North America. If you want a really great foodie vacation, Vancouver, B.C. Canada is worthy of your attention. As we have the widest ethnic mix of population in North America, the food choices here are truly fantastic! I cannot think of another city anywhere in the world where there is so much choice of menu items. And, of course, it's in a friendly country where most everyone speaks English and is of exceedingly high moral character! And we don't allow guns...

[@elchanclascocina]

When I went to Montreal I ran into people who weren't too friendly nor spoke English, or didn't want to speak English with me, but, there were some great people too, and city is very nice. Looking forward to visiting BC!

[@orlandoalessandrini2505]

Miami is overrated, period.

[@thorjustin95]

Best way to check reviews is get a friend and make them go first.

[@tonyrodriguez2543]

I would recommend Prospect Pizza in Oakland Park, Florida. The Cheese Steak Sandwich is amazing. The Pizza is very good too.

[@jxlee91]

Guga you should do a series where you have Chefs try your steak so they know how to improve.

[@youngkingyoungking1481]

Day 36 of asking guga to dry age steaks in rendang paste

[@hunterfabio]

I'm glad you loved our Portuguese chicken so much ❤

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

As someone who's worked in restaurants, don't go to the worst restaurants. Even if you have a wonderful experience, it's what's festering in the kitchen you'll want to avoid. In fact.... I wouldn't suggest going to a restaurant at all.

[@kolla-ii6bm]

8:32 guga got excited when the waitress come🫠🫠🫠

[@FoxNimbus]

Reviews guide me, but I'll still try a place if it looks good to me even with low reviews! Sometimes someone's bad day ruins potential gems. And yeah, you should do lowest reviewed places!

[@FleetinDream]

I love videos like this so much

[@pa7235]

I love how this channel is about eating truckloads of amazing food, and the hook is always to say "it's for science!"

[@jurekrasovec]

To be honest I am not suprised, quite a long ago I decided to cook my own food as restaurants generaly sucks, there are a few exceptions but since (at least in Slovenia, Europe) they are below 80:20 rule I am not taking any risks anymore. Get good ingrediants and cook them yourself to your own likings is the way to go

[@lhb8452]

Guga Is Back!!!!!

[@JosephKocourek]

I think I saw you make the first appetizer, yours looked way more delicious.

[@RyB180-y4y]

@1:41 don't ever do that again Guga 🤣

[@DarkEnv2]

Here’s how I view it all. It’s about not only the reviews but the sample size. When I order items from Amazon I like to look at the reviews and actually read them and also see how many reviews an item gets. Don’t just look and see a 4.6 rating but only 8 reviews and also don’t see a high rating with 3,000 reviews and say it must be good, read the actual reviews and make sure they look real and that a bot didn’t write them. Same with food reviews. Read them and see how many reviews are provided. Because Google gets a much larger sample size I like to stick with looking at them over Yelp. That’s just me though.

[@bswd]

Yup, review brigading is a real thing, and you'll see it both positively (if the restaurant owner is pumping up their own place) as well as negatively (owner buys negative reviews to kill their competition). Gotta be careful with blindly trusting the review scores, but it's also a lot of work to find the true actual good places to go.

[@Whoisthisguyandwhydoeshetalk]

You always seem to do great look at the best way to season, marinade and cook a steak. However, have you ever tried a vide of extended resting between cooking for reverse seared steak? I know 10 mins is ideal but curious if up to 24 hrs would make a difference. Looked for videos on the subject and don’t seem to see anything on the subject.

[@chriskaspereen4150]

I was told by a Yelp employee I know to never trust their reviews. Google isn't perfect, but that's what he uses to find food. You just have to watch out for brigades.

[@kassx1]

Speaking about yelp I only check there to get an overview of a restaurant. My experience with yelper reviews only around southern California is people here don't really know what good food is or are overly picky about a small issue. I've tried several places that get amazing reviews only to find the food is only edible sometimes barely edible but certainly not even close to amazing. And I believe this is because the last generation or two have been raised on McDonald's and other fast food establishments and do not know what good food is.

[@Duderocksdj101]

I went to Bocas House for my birthday last year. One of the best experiences I ever had.

[@4thGen4runner__]

Ole Ole Steakhouse in South Beach, go review it! Get the beef rib, it melts in your mouth!

[@cyborgofdeath]

hmmm one thing i see wrong with that rotating chicken is that they have it spinning far too quick, charcoal chicken here in Australia turns slower and tastes awesome

[@someoneelse2262]

yup. This has pretty much been my experience. You have to read the individual reviews to figure out whether it sounds like someone who actually knows anything about food. Both Google and Yelp are pretty unreliable sources of information on the high end. Really bad overall reviews tend to be more accurate--though even there it's often people with some weird axe to grind. The real problem is that most restaurants are run by people who don't know enough about the kind of food they are making and/or don't have the passion necessary to sacrifice their lives to putting the best product out. Running a great restaurant at any price-point is a labor of love that requires a significant degree of insanity.

[@DeathstrokeIncGaming]

I have heard of steak being described in many ways but bitter isn't one of them, Guga said suffering because of reviews but single handedly made thousands of people not want to try either restaurant. People don't go to restaurants for the sides.

[@diegoarmandolupicascarano7003]

Guga if you are in south Florida you should go to one of the best Italian restaurants in margate and you can rate them to see if they are like your last travel to Italy the name is “Pasta And….. Ristorante” and Gian Marco is the owner I can introduce you and try one of the best Italian restaurants of south Florida

[@Abdi-r2g]

Guga was shy with the waitress😂

[@hunterivey]

I recommend you try Mug Shots, it's one of my favorite restaurants to go to, try their Peanut Butter Burger, it is so good.

[@oscargonzalez8532]

Every time I visit orlando I have to stop at Charley's Steak House❤❤❤

[@shawnfallahi5616]

he kind of looks like the singer from Staind. great vid.

[@captainkaleb]

The reason the chicken in Portugal was so good is because the actual chicken itself is good. American chicken is flavourless and boring so it doesn't matter how you cook it.

[@kryptokrypto702]

Huh? Makes no sense. I've been to many countries. Chicken taste like chicken unless you spice it different.

[@JoelGGomes]

​O capitão está certo. Não discutas com o capitão. ​@@kryptokrypto702

[@RudiBoy5]

These are Venezuelan restaurants 🇻🇪 🇻🇪

[@RudiBoy5]

Bocas I never liked it, expensive and no bueno

[@IamGoen]

Knowing what it costs to make some of this food at home, I thought the menu prices at Francisca were ridiculously over priced!

[@altsigma0]

Dry age steak with durian!

[@AnubisRLDD]

YES. You must do the worst AND compare them to the best rated.

[@anthonyaiello4343]

Portugal is my favorite country of all I've visited and I've been there several times but not since 2021. Piri piri is goddamn awesome and food there generally is so so so great.

[@franklake8931]

excellent idea and looking forward to worst reviews trial

[@JaykeBlayde]

I honestly feel that reviews should expire, be gone/deleted after 1 year.

[@78alJ0vle]

Disagree. It should have a mechanism that allows you to search the reviews by date if you want, but never delete the past. Then, if you want to see the overall quality you can, if you want to see if they are improving recently you can. And that also allows you to see if in holydays they performe worse (because they are busy and cant handle everything perfectly) and you should avoid them at that time. Give more functionality, but never remove data.

[@airiannawilliams3181]

I wouldn't say removed, but archived instead, and an overall graph since the place opened, complete with who's working the kitchen and when it changed, and importantly the past month in the immediate view, because each chef cooks things a little differently, which can change the taste slightly to significantly. So you are following the chef more than the restaurant at meal time.

[@JaykeBlayde]

no, one year would have enough history/data to track any improvements or regression. since not all reviews are honest and accurate, it's not fair to establishment owner for others to point out bs that happened 5 years ago, or prices, etc.

[@airiannawilliams3181]

@@JaykeBlayde Truthfully, I don't read any of the reviews, if I like the food and service, I go back, if I don't, I won't. And feel that everyone should be that way, rather than trying to judge food by others reviews, cause the opposite could be true as well, raving reviews, but the food tastes like old TV dinners.

[@truncatela]

I've found when traveling Google was a more reliable rating system than Yelp

[@abdulmuin3459]

Lesson of the day. Just order appetiser. 😅😅😅

[@RoboGetter2Official]

Fuiyoh!!!! Uncle Guga

[@richardrh333]

Americans don't review based on the food. They review based on the service and ambiance. I just care about the food.

[@CerealKillahh]

Guga Reviews versus Yelp Reviews! ❤

[@dav1dgear]

Plantain is just a type of banana. Just as there's different type of mango and oranges there's also different type of banana. So all plantain is banana but not all banana is plaintain

[@dwoodstwin]

I’m still trying Bocas when I visit MeYami next week

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

DO IT!!! Do the worst rated ones for sure, you know we love putting you through unpleasant experiences for the funny of it, and you may find a diamond in the rough that deserves better reviews than they've thus far been given, maybe a place that was bad previously but has turned their act around?

[@GhoshDang]

I like to judge for myself. People get picky about things other than the actual food. I can deal with slow service but the food has to be good

[@Tenchi1016]

100% do the worst rated restaurants!! and not only that, you can even do worst rated franchise chain restaurant and mom / pop restaurant , and do the follow up to this video, the #1 rated restaurant that isn't a chain ( i.e. mom/pop shops ) . you are also correct in that, both Yelp and Google Reviews, have a lot of pay to get 5 star reviews and pay to remove 1 star reviews!! stuff like that, hurts family owned places, where corporation can just pay to bully family owned places out of business

[@EmoEmu]

Go get those 1-star dinners, Guga!

[@MaryJane-kj7qk]

Definitely do the worst rated. I'd be interested to see how accurate they are

[@oriolesfan2463]

Gotta do the worst reviewed places!

[@michaelb1761]

I just can't buy steak in a restaurant because I know Ican cook a better steak at home for 1/4 the price or less. I grilled some Wagyu Picanha just two nights ago, and it was delicious. Unfortunately my local butcher only has it very infrequently, so I can't count on getting it whenever I want.

[@kjworrell2952]

Try the worst with 'pile on' bad reviews (lots a similar or generic one star reviews at about the same time) I've seen people go on social media after one bad experience and request that others who haven't even eaten at the restaurant pile on bad reviews to support them. Sometimes the actual customer had a bad experience and wasn't responded to by the restaurant but other times they were offered compensation and still wanted people to pile on. It's these reviews that I ignore the most when looking at a review site

[@BenGrimm977]

yeah try all the bad ones

[@Dangic23]

I used to be yelp elite in 2008-2010. What a waste of life. 😂 I’m surprised the site still exists.

[@francisp6723]

In Europe, if you see a menu this big, you run.

[@delphinelavendermorgan4627]

Google Reviews? Yelp Reviews? Never heard of those. I know Guga Review. As of the worst reviewed restaurants, please do so because those can sometimes be hidden gems

[@Miphawellspring]

I believe you should do a food review for low star restaurants sometimes people give them the worst rating for random reasoning lol But sometimes you have to agree the food is either awful or the service is.

[@SoonMrWick]

When Yelp first hit the scene, you could find perfect options... now, it's almost useless.

[@marcomcdowell8861]

I don't follow internet reviews or reviews from influencers. I don't know any party involved and I have no idea about their motivations about it.