FINAL LBCS 2010 RANKINGS ANNOUNCED BY US TODAY and LUNCH IN THE GUMP

Ed. Note: Yesterday, our Cornbread Carp was declared eligible to post on luncheon blogs by the FBI (Food Bloggers Institute) despite the finding that his father, Cecil Carp, engaged in efforts to shop his son's reviews to the Rock Bottom Cafe. Cecil Carp is no longer associated with LITG and has no authority to contact restaurants on behalf of LITG. The controversy concerning Cornbread's temporary ineligibility delayed his ability to post this article.

Montgomery, AL--The world's most interesting blog (concerning eating lunch in Montgomery, AL) and US Today have announced the final Lunch Bowl Championship Series standings for 2010. The final cook off will feature an epic "backyard brawl between the wedges" pitting No-Clo's landmark, the No. 1 Derk's Filet & Vine "Ducks," against the War Bagels of Shashy's Bakery and Fine Foods  ranked No. 2. The championship will be determined by a visit to Derks on Monday December 6th followed by a visit to Shashy's on December 7th. Game times are noon Central. Both will be televised on the ESPN Food Network. The winner will receive the silver lunch bowl trophy from LITG. It promises to be a real flan burner.

With the final computer, human and health department polls tallied, Derk's finished in first with a rating of .9207 and 3,202 first place votes far surpassing Shashy's .8575 combined rating and 2,827 first place votes. Both had health ratings above 95. The final top ten in the LBCS poll were:

1. Derk's Filet and Vine
2. Shashy's Fine Foods
3. Michael's Table
4. Village Kitchen
5. Lek's Railroad Thai
6. Nancy Patersons (Itinerant) Bistro
7. Cafe Louisa
8. Zoe's
9. La Zona Rosa
10. Tomatino's

"These rankings reflect the strength of the Z-RED and Cloverdale conferences as the dominant Gump lunch forces," said Chase N. Allpots, one of the founders of Lunch in the Gump--which is currently rated the world's number 1 blog relating to eating lunch in Montgomery, AL, affectionately known as "the Gump." The Most Interesting Man in the World, when asked for a quote while swimming with arctic monkeys, replied: "Never trust a restaurant not ranked by Lunch in the Gump. Stay hungry my friends!"


There were some surprises noted in the rankings. Three of the top ten restaurants had not yet been rated by the LITG reviewers: Cafe Louisa, Tomatino's and Zoe's. Tojo Yamamoto, while applying a choke hold, was asked for a comment on how three restaurants could not have been publicly rated by the worlds most popular blog and yet make the top ten, said, "Tojo eat at Zoe's."


Rounding out the rest of the top 25, in order, were:



11 Hamburger King
12 India Palace
13 Shogun
14 Lunde's
15 Ala Thai
16 Isaiah's
17 Sa-Zas
18 Street Café
19 Cool Beans
20 Chris's
21 Green Papaya
22 Five Brother's B-B-Q
23 Destin Connection
24 Capitol Oyster Bar
25 Saigon Deli


The "favorites" page of the LITG Blog now reflects the Top 10 rankings because some folks just skip the quips and go there first anyway. All in all, over 9,574 votes were cast this year by blog readers, the most in LITG blog history.


The rules for the LBCS were explained in a prior post.

US-TODAY 2010 LUNCH BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP OPEN FOR VOTING....

Best lunch in a bowl series.

Montgomery--The editors of LITG announced today that voting for the 2010 Best Lunch in the Gump poll is now underway.  Posters and fans of the World's No. 1 Blog on lunching within the confines of downtown Montgomery, Alabama, a/k/a "The Gump," are invited to submit their rankings of the top-ten places they have lunched in the Gump during 2010.  The votes will be tallied and published December 1, 2010, with much fanfare, pomp and circumstance.

Rules: (1) The nominee must serve lunch; (2) It must still be open; (3) It must be physically located within the Gump (see Glossary for definition); (4) The voter must have personally eaten there in 2010 and (5) the nominee must either have been reviewed at some point on the LITG blog and/or must not be a national chain restaurant (we do not like them).

How to vote: Please list as many as ten of your favorite places to have lunch in the Gump in order of preference. (For those of you from P-Vegas, this means your favorite should be listed as number 1 and you do not have to list 10 but you can't list more than 10).  Unlike in Perry County, you can vote only once. Also unlike Perry County, your votes will remain anonymous.

E-mail your list to Shadowpup@lunchinthegump.com on or before November 30, 2010.

Note: Do NOT send a list for best schnitzel or best Indian restaurant or best lunch under the Tojo line.  This is "Best Lunch in the Gump" regardless of cuisine, price or presence or absence of table cloths or metal cutlery. In other words, for you Stateys in the audience, the place you would go if you were on an unlimited expense account and had two hours for lunch.

The highest ranked eatery will receive the much coveted "Best Lunch of the Year" award from LITG and perhaps a visit by the entire LITG entourage if you are lucky (or you buy off the Carp---just kidding.  Do you read me FBI? SERIOUSLY, just kidding!).