I find yelp to be helpful, but a lot of the times, the reviews are a bit too snarky and unreliable. For the most part, I find that people are a lot more willing to complain about bad experiences than share good ones, so the ratings tend to make the places seem a little worse than they actually are. But that's just my opinion.

Yelp's okay in finding restaurants I haven't tried. Word of mouth rules, whether it be from people I know, people I know on the internet, or strangers on the internet.

Since it's all a matter of taste anyway, and obviously my taste is more important to me than your experience, I'll give a restaurant at least one try.

I dropped my account with YELP. I had written some reviews of a place (something helpful,) and since I said in it that I hadn't been inside that my experience didn't count and that they were going to delete it. When I wrote back and gave them the reason why I wrote it, and even though my experience was only from outside that it should count, they then said that I had no experience with the place, so I told them to simply delete me account since they don't want truth and all information about places. they said that they loved my other reviews and that I should stay, I informed them that I would no longer use their site again and would recommend to others that they don't either. I will never use that site again even to just read reviews.