Lately I have found myself growing tired of overly florid and verbose restaurant reviews- while at times I love to languish in the grandiloquently detail-oriented, spot-on reviews of folks like the Tablehopper, sometimes I just want a reviewer's opinion in a nutshell- a distillation of the true essence of the experience.

So, I thought, how can I effectively and dramatically combat this trend? At first I thought of doing 1 sentence reviews, but with clauses and prepositions and conjunctions and whatnot I could cheat and do really long and technically grammatically correct sentences. So I'm going to start reviewing restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area (and sometimes other cities, if I'm traveling) using only 1 haiku per review- challenging myself to express only the most salient points of the place in exactly 17 syllables. Feel free to add your own haiku reviews in the comments section when you're inspired- and we can have a reader contest, with prizes, once we collect a bunch!

Remember the structure of a haiku is:
the 1st line has 5 syllables
the 2nd line has 7 syllables
the 3rd line has 5 syllables

and that's it.

I'll tackle spots in a small neighborhood or sub-neighborhood, or maybe a genre, or whatever I feel like, each every other Thursday. Stay tuned!