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Zagat Europe: not for budget travelers

by jul on May 21st, 2008

zagatThumbing through Zagat 2008 Europe’s Top Restaurants, I became nostalgic for the Zagat books I know from the US - guides which include great recommendations for restaurants at a whole range of price points. Not so for the European guide, in which the prices seem to range from expensive to very very expensive.

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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  • Richard Callaby
    Jun 30, 2008 at 10:04 am

    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.

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