I’m glad my article was useful for you. I hope you come back and enjoy more of the site and tell your friends and family. I don’t suggest randomly submitting your work since most publications will not even read it. If you’re happy with the local paper, then stick with that. It’s always a joy for any writer to be published somewhere. If, however, you’re looking for paid work or perhaps a column, then I suggest looking for regional magazines/webzines that are hiring writers. You’ll probably have more luck with webzines, because print is pretty comatose right now and most small publishers can’t afford to cover tabs. If you end up getting published elsewhere, then please be sure to come back and tell us of your success.

Thank you for reading!

Even though the food was great and the chef knows how to cook beautiful food, we felt uncomfortable the entire time we were there and unfortunately would never return.

It is extremely obvious the owner does not know how to run a restaurant. Being an open kitchen we were forced to listen to the immature banter and “toilet humor” between the chef/owner and a young female kitchen employee. We were not the only diners that had to experience this.

The Table Restaurant seems to be owned by a man who just wants to continue joking around in the kitchen instead of behaving in a responsible, professional manner towards his customers. We felt there was a vast difference between the quality of food and the way the restaurant was managed. These two aspects simply didn’t compliment each other.

The saving grace of the night, along with the standard of food, was our waitress who was the only individual behaving in a professional manner.
In summary, the food was great but the lack of professionalism from the kitchen and the owner is the reason we will not return to the Table restaurant.

Thanks for reading and I’m glad I could help. Restaurants don’t typically pay diners to write reviews about them since that would be an unethical practice. You will have better chances of getting paid for your reviews by getting hired by your local paper or online magazine. Since paid journalism is somewhat comatose right now — especially with so many writers willing to write for experience — it may be very difficult to find what you’re looking for.

I hope this helps!

Also.. this is one of the most detailed how-to restaurant review articles I’ve ever come across!Thank you Mr. Garcia.

Thanks for the great restaurant review article!
-Adam

Thanks for reading. It was great conversing with you over email. I hope you’ll come back and let us know how your review turned out.

Thanks for dropping by my site and for reading. I’m glad my article could help.

First, let me just say that I don’t think reviewers should have to pay for their own meals. Either the publication should foot the bill or the restaurant should eat the tab. Furthermore, I don’t think that the fact that the reviewer is getting compensated necessarily discredits the review. There is a certain amount of doubt we give journalists, because it is (or should be) considered a sacred position. Journalists wield a lot of power, like doctors and mechanics. Until a journalist proves his or her bias, there’s no reason to assume their review is skewed just because they were paid to write something.

Secondly, you should always tip according to the bill amount regardless of if you have to pay for the bill. Keep in mind that the US government automatically assumes the server is getting tipped a minimum of 8% on every bill and taxes the server accordingly. So when you “stiff” a server, you’re actually making them pay for 8% of your meal. If you’re eating at a 5-star restaurant and don’t want to drop a 20-dollar tip or whatever it is, just make sure to charge your publication for it.

In any event, I hope you’ll come back to Working Author and post a link to your review when it goes up.

Thanks for visiting.