Zagat Europe: not for budget travelers
Thumbing through Zagat 2008 Europe’s Top Restaurants
Not only that, but the recommended restaurants seem mostly tired and predictable – locales you can find in any upscale guidebook. There’s no insider’s feel to it (despite the fact that I myself have submitted a couple recommendations from the various European cities I’ve lived in 
. You’d probably be better off leaving this extra volume at home.
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I think they might be going for a different audience now. Sad to say but budget travelers do not necessarily buy travel books. It is the luxury travelers who can afford to buy the best “guides” on the bookshelf. I would much rather ask a local for a good place to eat then eat in some pretentious expensive joint that will only empty my wallet.