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1 Zin Rating

DEFINED

I haven’t given this rating to more than a few restaurants of the 160 or so restaurants Lauren & I have visited. If a restaurant does get a rating of 1 Zin, my recommendation would be to not bother to get out of your car.

Reviews with 1 Zin

The restaurants listed below achieved the 1 Zin Rating at the time of my visit. 

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Ralph Pancetta

Food Critic

In my career are twenty-five-plus years learning the restaurant business – from top to bottom – and six years in a Midwest university learning and polishing my writing skills. I have spent a good number of those years (just how many yet to be determined) on the road and authored well over 150 reviews & articles – and still counting.

I’ve traveled from Maine to Florida, from Boston to San Francisco,  from Seattle to San Diego, and from Dallas to way north of Duluth, sampling and writing about food. And Yes, I love restaurants, I love preparing, writing about, and eating, food. I hope you enjoy reading what I have written!

Ralph Pancetta

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Norske Nook

The situation required that we partake of some breakfast first

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Il Fornaio

Carmel-by-the-Sea must have at least as many restaurants as I

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