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:
- Derk's Filet and Vine
- Shashy's Fine Foods
- Michael's Table
- Village Kitchen
- Lek's Railroad Thai
- Nancy Patersons (Itinerant) Bistro
- Cafe Louisa
- Zoe's
- La Zona Rosa
- Tomatino's
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.
Thanks, Carp. I'm glad you were able to overcome your secret, one-day, no-cost disqualification. According to the press, you didn't know what was going on anyway. I understand, and all is forgiven.
ReplyDeleteNow, thanks to the cosmic benevolent powers of LITG, I can commence to eatin' lunch again!
Dirk's! Dirk's! Dirk's! Dirk's!
(The shouts continue as the rolls of toilet paper fill the air at the corner of Graham Street and Cloverdale Road).
Please note that Sazas was ineligle for consideration. The secret committee of LITG found overwhelming evidence to disqualify them for consideration whereby executing the death by lack of patrons penalty on their management and expecting closure by 4/15/11.
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