No “Best of” Tour expected for 2012. During several of our tour stops on the, now
famous, Tenderloin Tour of 2012, we discussed touring the category winners of
the “Best of Springfield” edition of the Illinois Times. You can find the 2011 edition at http://npaper-wehaa.com/illinoistimes/#2011/10/27/?page=1&dpg=1. Voting for the 2012 version is currently over
and winners are due to be announced on October 25, 2012.
The reason we aren’t doing a tour of the “Best of” winners
at this time is because we couldn’t decide on a format for visiting and
reviewing the category winners. When you
visit the website, you’ll see the categories are represented by one winner and
sometimes a runner up. This doesn’t
leave us much to visit. It would be too
much of an undertaking for us to go through each and every one of these
categories to sample the winner's fares and find some other restaurants to compare them against. This contest is more of a popularity contest rather than patrons actually visiting restaurants in the specific categories and
voting for the best. It’s not a true
representation of what the Culinary Delights Committee stands for so we’re
foregoing this tour for the time being. I can hear the disappointment as you read this post. Don't let that get you down.
As an alternative, we are going to hit the streets of Springfield this fall in search of the best Buffalo Wings in town. Hence, the Wing Tour of 2012 is brought to
bear. We currently have our ears to the
ground in hopes of identifying restaurants with renowned wings. We hope to find some back alley, underground
joints off the beaten path to frequent and possibly find a hidden gem so we may
bring it to light and share it with the residents of Springfield and the
surrounding area. We will also be visiting some chain restaurants for the visual consumption as much as the digestive consumption. If you know of such a
place, don’t hesitate to comment and let us know.
Our rules for critiquing are similar to that of the Tenderloin Tour. We will take the cost, atmosphere, flavor, size, and overall experience into account before posting our review to the blog. We hope you enjoy eating up our reviews as much as we enjoy eating the wingies.
