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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Food Cordon Bleughhhhhh

Posted by Matt Davis on Tue, Nov 14 at 4:23 PM

I’ve been tempted lately to try “Bleu”, the Western Culinary institute’s new restaurant. The story is, students cook the dinner, it’s cheap, but cordon bleu. Apparently not—at least, according to the Food Dude:

no one should have to sit through a restaurant experience as bad as mine at Bleu more than once…at one point as I was contemplating the effect on my stomach of biting into the barely cooked, gummy and stuck-together pappardelle, I asked myself, “Would the staff eat this?â€…On my first visit, wait staff twice dropped plates while we were having lunch, our waiter’s apparel was stained and we were kept waiting a full half hour for our entrÃ©es…At this level of performance it should close down and not re-open until it can consistently deliver even just moderately good food

Ouch. It got zero out of a possible four stars.Read FD’s scathing review here.

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Comments

Food Dude, How Rude!

Posted by Michard Reeker | November 14, 2006 4:33 PM

Take it from someone who used to date a cooking studentâ€”cooking students' cooking SUCKS! That's why they're in cooking school.

Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey | November 14, 2006 5:05 PM

Did anyone notice how delicious that empty pan looked?

Posted by Matt Davis | November 14, 2006 5:06 PM

That wasn't me.

Posted by Matt Davis | November 14, 2006 5:19 PM

I believe that review is by Ken Collura, not Food Dude.

Posted by extramsg | November 14, 2006 7:01 PM

I'm not going to argue with the review.

Posted by Alex-jon | November 14, 2006 7:56 PM

KM, whoever that is, not Collura.

Posted by extramsg | November 14, 2006 9:03 PM

What amazes me is that people keep going back there! Has ANYONE ever had a decent meal there? Has anyone ever given it a decent review? And yet, people keep going back lured by the supposed value.

Posted by Suds Sister | November 15, 2006 7:45 AM

Or the fun in slamming the little guy.

Posted by freekaleek | November 15, 2006 10:07 AM

It was one of our new writers, KM that did this review. Sadly enough, we've reviewed them twice in two years, and nothing has changed.

WCI is hardly a "little guy"

Posted by Food Dude | November 15, 2006 12:11 PM

Can you see this. Do not hesitate to choose. Look

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