Tallulah Savage wrote:
.... isn't it owned by a relative of yours?.
I don't think there is a wrong way to take what you have written and its a fair point. Yes, a cousin of my wife is down there but i sleep easy knowing that i created the criteria then ran the data, not the other way around so with regards to categories ...
- the 'best for ...' ('fine dining', 'good food' and 'budget') each had their own award which i think is reasonable;
- the 'Key Qualities' (ie food/service/atmos/value) each had their own award which i think is reasonable ;
- the Cypriot taverna is the most popular search on the site which is why there are three prizes for that food genre, which i think is reasonable ;
Now i can only run the data from the site and i would be ecstatic if i could get 19 or even 90 reviews per restaurant to use in the awards but its just NOT as easy as a simple popularity vote contest. You know i`m asking people to commit a few minutes to make a review, and often longer if they want to say something interesting so only the really committed have put reviews in! anyway averaged out the Ayioli ratings gave them a good score and this is how it panned out. Fettas and Viklari also both won two awards but i have never eaten in them myself or met them, and for the record, all other winners have no link to me, either distant family or business, even if they did i would be 100% comfortable with the results as they stand. I cannot think of a clearer way to provide a summary of other peoples opinions of a extended period.
Andy wrote:
The top 10 restaurants needs to be updated ..... how does that happen?
Top 10 is always using reviews placed over last 365 days - its always uptodate as it is created when you load the page from the database so that already removes 36 days of 2009 and adds 36 days of 2010. The '2009 awards' are using 1/1/9 to 31/12/9 so without looking in detail i know that the two will be different, and if you consider the Top 10 is a 'best overall' score without any further categorisation whilst the 'awards' are drilled down to 'best score' with certain criteria applied. The Top10 will be phased out during the year and replaced with something similar like the 'best for ... ' part of the awards so a bar serving pub grub is not competing head to head with a fine dining house.