UPDATE - May 18, 2008
Some changes are coming to The Little Piggy - Reviews. While remaining critical in style, I will be focusing on restaurant recommendations. Reader feedback indicates that this is the most valued aspect of the reviews. As my time decreases I want to make sure I'm serving the most important goal. Similarly, with less time, I am far less interested in eating crappy food and struggling through awkward service. Seeking out notoriously bad restaurants to review has become undesirable. That said, as my family and friends would surely suggest, my compliments can sometimes be interpreted as aggressive - so to clarify: new reviews are intended in some way as recommendations. I hope what makes those recommendation plausible, is their critical style.
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My name is Christabel Padmore and after years of deconstructing restaurants, sometimes to my dinner-mates' dismay, I decided to create a venue to express my thoughts. Our goal is to enhance communications between restaurants and their clients, encourage an active dining scene on the Island, and generally make a positive contribution to our industry.
We say what we think, complete with colourful adjectives and humiliating photographs. I often encounter conflicts of interest as a reviewer, it's inevitable. I take my journalistic integrity seriously, but don't hold myself to impossible standards -- I'm only human, but my motivations are sincere: I want people to eat out more and I want restaurants to give their clients a reason to come back. The review process is a subjective one, I write from my perspective, which I hope is thoughtful enough to be balanced. When I hit an obvious problem, my approach is to be as transparent as possible -- if I get a free drink, you'll know it.
We don't accept advertising from restaurants on the site, but we will promote our own projects. Some people send me grumbly notes about that practice, but in order to justify the time and money I put into the site, there needs to be some business-positive outcomes (and Revenue Canada is quite fussy on this point as well).
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