We're going to talk about, despite all the great food that New York City has to offer,

there's really bad food and some really bad restaurants out there too.

We have a guest on this, but listeners you're invited in too.

What are some of your red flags for bad restaurants?

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What automatically turns you off at a place, or maybe even ruins your appetite?

We're not just talking about health code violations here.

Are there any styles of decor or menu items that signal poor food quality?

And conversely, are there signs that tell you the food served will be great?

2-1-2-4-3-3-WNYC, call or text, 2-1-2-4-3-3-9-6-9-2, and with us for this is our inspiration

for this segment, Tammy Teclamarium, underground gourmet columnist at Grub Street from New York

Magazine.

Tammy, welcome back to WNYC.

Hi, Brian.

Thanks for having me.

So you wrote up a red flag list.

What inspired you to do this?

So somebody was actually interviewing me, and they asked me how I know what restaurants

I want to go to.

And I kept saying it's an intuition, it's just something that I've built up over time.

But then they asked me, can you just give us one red flag?

So I said, crispy rice.

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