I'm so glad you wrote about the biggest scam of them all, the fake restaurant The Shed at Dulwich, and how it rose to # 1 out of I think 12,000 or so restaurants in London - despite never existing!I trust OpenTable (a little) because a) you can only write a review if you've booked thru OpenTable and actually dine at the restaurant and b) because the reviews roll off after 6 months, so you're constantly getting relatively fresh reviews.But the sites that let anyone write a review, forget it.  I've seen glowing reviews of a local restaurant's lunch menu (even though they aren't open for lunch, for example), or a review knocking a favorite restaurant in Crested Butte that was three owners (8 years) old. I'll pass on Yelp and TA

I'm so glad you wrote about the biggest scam of them all, the fake restaurant The Shed at Dulwich, and how it rose to # 1 out of I think 12,000 or so restaurants in London - despite never existing!I trust OpenTable (a little) because a) you can only write a review if you've booked thru OpenTable and actually dine at the restaurant and b) because the reviews roll off after 6 months, so you're constantly getting relatively fresh reviews.But the sites that let anyone write a review, forget it.  I've seen glowing reviews of a local restaurant's lunch menu (even though they aren't open for lunch, for example), or a review knocking a favorite restaurant in Crested Butte that was three owners (8 years) old. I'll pass on Yelp and TA

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