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
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.
@@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.
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).
We had a great restaurant around the corner. The dad of the woman is a hunter. So they had even deer. They never dissapointed. But it now has new owners. One (beef) steak on thge menue. 200g filet for 39€. Sorry: I just bought 1kg ribeye at Aldi: 14€/kg. Cut it into 4 of 250g each. Plus I prefer ribeye over filet. I maybe german, but my family in the US always liked the steaks I cooked. These new owners won't see us, ever.
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)☺️
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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!! 😂
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!
@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.
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.
Yelp is what I usually rely on when looking for a restaurant or business. I’ve given 5 stars, I’ve given 1 star. Some of those lower rated places I would try again. However as a Yelper, I just hope me experience can help others make a decision and not wait time or money.
I had picanha for the first time it was amazing I followed your video how to cut it cook it medium rare even my husband who does not like medium rare loved it my daughter even said it was better than a tomahawk thank you so much for recommending it
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!!!
i'm a yelper mainly, and i am very critical; but i am also very true in my assessment!! i don't write a review, unless they deserve it for awesome service; or they deserve it for how bad they really are!!! speaking of, if any of you are in honolulu hawaii... i recommend Camado Ramen Tavern!!! worth it!!!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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...
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!
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
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...
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
4:20 Guga my friend, that looks like a Venezuelan empanada, not a Colombian one. They are quite different from one another, I know you are Brazilian but if you live in Miami, you have to be able to tell them apart. Clearly this is a Venezuelan restaurant judging by the cachapas and some of the other items on the menu.
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.
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Haha, when Guga said "Google Reviews" I thought he said Guga Reviews! I'd trust that review over the other two!
Same!
Wait, he didn't say guga reviews? Thought he had something like a "one bite" app going.
Yea
He did say guga reviews
When he says: "it doesn't matter what ANYONE says. **I** will tell you about the quality of the food" 🤣
Love it! Do the worst star rated restaurants please!!
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
That's true, but we still season it lmao
The best part of Gugas reviews is you can read the joy/disgust on his face. Top tier
the difference is that guga is painfully realistic, best source
Guga just became a GIF at 1:41
He absolutely did! 😂
This comment gets an A+
Guga - This is YOUR BEST restaurant review to date! GREAT VIDEO! Please do more like this.
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.
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.
@@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.
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).
We had a great restaurant around the corner. The dad of the woman is a hunter. So they had even deer. They never dissapointed. But it now has new owners. One (beef) steak on thge menue. 200g filet for 39€. Sorry: I just bought 1kg ribeye at Aldi: 14€/kg. Cut it into 4 of 250g each. Plus I prefer ribeye over filet. I maybe german, but my family in the US always liked the steaks I cooked. These new owners won't see us, ever.
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)☺️
To keep in shape Guga actually runs between the restaurants.
14:10 Bro in the back left is just chilling and jamming and living his best life xD
😂
It was so subtle you’d miss it 😂
The fact that we get free food review videos on RUclips by Guga is truly a gift; keeping education and knowledge alive.
👏🙏🏾🤷
Yes Guda i believe alot of places suffer off poor reviews- go ahead n give them try- An blessings🙏🏽 i always love your content
Great series. Guga is entering his Gordon Ramsay era.
i'm ready for a guga kitchen nightmares and turn these restaurants around
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.
I love when you're reviewing places, guga✨
Make more of these contents 😊❤
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
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
@@guyknightley3499 if Uncle Roger is able to , I think Guga would be as well :)
He's going to all these restaurants because he's out of ideas for original videos
He should just be an occasional guest meat chef for select restauraunts. Less stress and gets to do only what he loves doing.
He's filming himself going to these restaurants, because then he can record it as a business expense. 🤣
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!
Best way to check reviews is get a friend and make them go first.
LOVE this new mode of content!!!! PLEASE PLEASE do the worst
Need more restaurant reviewing by guga!!!!
8:39 Guga be like: yes I'd like half a cow, medium rare, fries with a gallon of garlic butter sauce, and a diet coke please
Guga I must say. You look buff man! Your time in the gym is really showing!
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.
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.
i love the way you show and tell about these dishes... I'm unknown with al these south-American dishes, so I realy learn a lot...😃
Absolutely Guga. Lets see those worst reviewed restaurants!
Guga out there throwing down now days. Making enemies left and right.
At least I know one thing from this video...
Guga's being honest with us because he told us at least 50 times
Google reviews vs Yelp reviews and now vs Guga reviews 😂
I liked this video 👏 - would love to see one on worst rated restaurants 👍
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!! 😂
Day 36 of asking guga to dry age steaks in rendang paste
Kepp going
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!
Yes, please do the worst restaurant ratings.
@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.
Love these videos Guga, keep it up man!
I remember when this guy was in his home dining table, with his fam, tasting and reviewing foods 😊
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!
You could never call this channel "small bites" Guga! Thank you!
Amazing video. Hope to see the low rated one as well. Some of my go to places have quite low reviews and arent too bad.
Guga you should do a series where you have Chefs try your steak so they know how to improve.
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.
FYI: In Panama, where we live, they call the fried plantains Patacones
Yelp is what I usually rely on when looking for a restaurant or business. I’ve given 5 stars, I’ve given 1 star. Some of those lower rated places I would try again. However as a Yelper, I just hope me experience can help others make a decision and not wait time or money.
I had picanha for the first time it was amazing I followed your video how to cut it cook it medium rare even my husband who does not like medium rare loved it my daughter even said it was better than a tomahawk thank you so much for recommending it
I'm glad you loved our Portuguese chicken so much ❤
I love how this channel is about eating truckloads of amazing food, and the hook is always to say "it's for science!"
8:32 guga got excited when the waitress come🫠🫠🫠
Yes, I would love to see you try some badly rated places!!
In Tabelog reviews when it scores 3.5/5 and above it’s a great restaurant … Japanese culture like to moderate things
Guga Is Back!!!!!
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!!!
i'm a yelper mainly, and i am very critical; but i am also very true in my assessment!! i don't write a review, unless they deserve it for awesome service; or they deserve it for how bad they really are!!! speaking of, if any of you are in honolulu hawaii... i recommend Camado Ramen Tavern!!! worth it!!!
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.
guga then: let's make some steaks....
guga now: hello food bloging
I love videos like this so much
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.
True that.
Yes, please review the lowest rated restaurants. Reviewing cheap eats restaurants would be great as well.
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
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!
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.
I would recommend Prospect Pizza in Oakland Park, Florida. The Cheese Steak Sandwich is amazing. The Pizza is very good too.
I went to Bocas House for my birthday last year. One of the best experiences I ever had.
Hugs knows food, go with guga
1:41 can you demonstrate that again please?
Guga was shy with the waitress😂
I think I saw you make the first appetizer, yours looked way more delicious.
Ole Ole Steakhouse in South Beach, go review it! Get the beef rib, it melts in your mouth!
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.
I tend to lean toward Google reviews because Yelp reviews seem to rate the food based on the bathrooms air freshener
Hi guga.
Please teach us about "old meat"?
And refreezing steak?
Thank you. 😊
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
he kind of looks like the singer from Staind. great vid.
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...
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!
Miami is overrated, period.
Every time I visit orlando I have to stop at Charley's Steak House❤❤❤
@1:41 don't ever do that again Guga 🤣
Go get those 1-star dinners, Guga!
excellent idea and looking forward to worst reviews trial
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.
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
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...
I've found when traveling Google was a more reliable rating system than Yelp
YES. You must do the worst AND compare them to the best rated.
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?
Dry age steak with durian!
Guga you need to try Peri-peri chicken in South Africa. It is amazing
In Europe, if you see a menu this big, you run.
Putting sauce on my steak is a red flag already
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.
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.
Definitely do the worst rated. I'd be interested to see how accurate they are
Gotta do the worst reviewed places!
I’m still trying Bocas when I visit MeYami next week
I can’t stand when a plantain/plátano is called a banana.
Knowing what it costs to make some of this food at home, I thought the menu prices at Francisca were ridiculously over priced!
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.
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.
Lesson of the day. Just order appetiser. 😅😅😅
4:20 Guga my friend, that looks like a Venezuelan empanada, not a Colombian one. They are quite different from one another, I know you are Brazilian but if you live in Miami, you have to be able to tell them apart. Clearly this is a Venezuelan restaurant judging by the cachapas and some of the other items on the menu.
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.
Fuiyoh!!!!
Uncle Guga
How was that corn hand blended again?