We Want You!
I was going to write this blog on Friday, the first day of Miami Spice Month (really Miami Spice Two Months), to tell all of you to get out there and start stuffing your faces. But I was too busy stuffing my own face. Ok, not really. I actually just grabbed pizza at Spris before heading over to Miami.com's fabo party at Set, a place I normally avoid like the plague (along with any other establishment that opens its doors at my bedtime and makes me bust out my "ho clothes").
At 11 p.m., however, Set is actually quite pleasant (the free drinks probably helped), and my favorite part of the evening was walking outside around midnight and seeing all the eager, hopeful faces lined up behind the velvet rope. Nothing is sadder... and funnier. Like little orphaned children hoping the nice young couple will pick them out of the dirty cheeked bunch, the club folk watched us as we exited, their faces seeming to say, "Is it as wonderful as it is in my dreams? Is Dwyane Wade inside? The bouncer won't give me and my new boobs a second look because I brought five dudes with me -- can you get me in???" So adorable.
But this was so not the point of this blog entry. The point was Miami Spice, and you, my faithful readers, and how you're going to do my job for me. It's pretty simple: you treat yourself to a cheap meal at a fancy restaurant - one that's participating in Miami Spice - and write a review of your experience for Miami.com. Each week (barring you people actually get off your keisters and participate) I'll pick the best review - not necessarily positive, just thorough and interesting - and post it for the world to see. The Miami.com reader world, that is.
Make it entertaining, make us feel like we were there, make us want to skip our "usual" restaurant and try something new for a change. At the very least, make us read past the first paragraph (technology, i.e. the Internet, has depleted our attention spans, remember?). And if you send us pics (of the dinner, not the ones from your trip to Niagra Falls - though I'm sure it was quite nice), even better. No need to make it a novel, and try to refrain from writing things like, "this place sux" and "my steak tasted like butt." You don't work at Hot Topic, okay?
So, start eating, register on Miami.com (if you haven't already) and leave a review here. Email a copy of your review as well to editor@miami.com. Who knows - the Food & Wine mag editor could read it and be so impressed she must call you right away and offer you a job as their senior food writer, and then when you go to restaurants, the staff will look at you in awe, wondering what it's like to be so cool - just like walking out of Set. Oh, what a feeling.
-- miaeditor
| Average rating based on 2 reviews. |
|
- Current 86 °F
- It's an indoor fun day
- Head to Bird Bowl
I hate when my steak tastes like butt.
Posted by: areyes on Mon, 2008-08-04 13:59