Comments on: Restaurant review! – Tapas barinn’s fast food debacle

By: D H

D H — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:30:32 +0000

Apologies for my outburst, it was somewhat inappropriate to bring these issues up out of context but definitely inappropriate to demonize Alda like that. I had had a heavy morning of reading about the worlds ills and the review came at a bad time, goodness knows i have caught myself complaining over similar issues in the past.
However, the idea that we are completely spoilt as a culture stands on its own to be agreed or disagreed with regardless of who i am. I actually don’t care ‘who’ any of you are beyond the ideas/thoughts you present here and don’t think using your real name is anything to get sanctimonious about.

By: hildigunnur

hildigunnur — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:58:37 +0000

Luna_Sea – well if you blog and comment doesn’t contain anything you can be ashamed of, well your name shouldn’t be sullied…

Then again, of course some web writers’ criticisms of dangerous things may put them in danger. Whistle-blowers for example. A comment like DH’s shouldn’t bring up any such danger; neither should providing a real email address where it isn’t shown anywhere. It’s also really easy to put up a real address that can’t easily be traced.

By: Wally

Wally — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:51:58 +0000

I have had a very similiar experience to what you described at Tapas. The food really does come to quick and you end up just eating and eating and eating and feeling kind of bloated and full really fast.
I never had the forsight to ask them to bring it slowly but after reading your review I realise that it probably wouldnt have helped. The excuse they offer is truly very very poor.
However the food is very very nice.

By: Stephen Cowdery

Stephen Cowdery — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:39:53 +0000

@Alda – You’re more than welcome. When I think of the dearth of real information about Iceland on the internet in 1999, when I started to plan my first trip to Iceland, I am completely in awe of your achievement with IWR. Restaurant reviews are important, especially in an economy with a large tourist industry. Your review of Tapas barinn should give its operators plenty of ideas for improvement, I hope they will be receptive to your criticisms. There have been a lot of good changes happening in Iceland in tourism (as your recent series of posts shows), what used to be a somewhat difficult trip to plan is getting better all the time, thanks to outward looking Icelanders like you.

Everyone benefits when an open discourse of ideas flourishes.

By: alda

alda — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:28:44 +0000

@Stephen and Kevin — Thank you.

By: alda

alda — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:28:16 +0000

@Luna_Sea — well, certainly, and by the same logic every potential employer or anyone else for that matter can google me and find this blog. I choose to blog under my own name, however, and I don’t have much time for those who choose to launch harsh criticisms from behind pseudonyms or false email addresses. To me that represents cowardice.

By: kevin oconnor,waterford,ireland

kevin oconnor,waterford,ireland — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:24:31 +0000

@DH well lets just close down every restaurant in the world, I don’t think Alda comprising 1 7 billionth of the worlds pop. has much sway over geo problems, nuclear bombs,Afghanistan,the Amazon rain forests etc etc, last I heard I don’t think she actually rules any country not even a mini one like Iceland.All she does is this blog to keep us happy out here in cyberspace, count your blessings if it was my blog there would only be one post a month, not blogging at the furious pace that Alda manages.

By: Luna_Sea

Luna_Sea — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:02:43 +0000

@Alda – I think there are good reasons for some of us not to post under our real names. Here in the U.S. almost every potential employer will google you and I wouldn’t necessarily want to make him/her aware of my politics, opinions and the particular circumstances of my life that I have at times posted.

@Stephen Cowdery – well put!

By: Stephen Cowdery

Stephen Cowdery — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:37:07 +0000

Regarding “D H” and his comments:
It always amazes me when a commenter completely hijacks a thread to promote a holier-than-thou opinion. No, it is not “right” to bring up world poverty in the context of a restaurant review, just as it would be wrong to bring up a restaurant review in a discussion of world poverty. Not only is it not right, it is downright rude, disrespectful and socially retarded.

By: alda

alda — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:08:28 +0000

DH – I’m sure I’d have a lot more regard for your opinion if you had the courage to post it under your own name. Not to mention provide a real email address, and not a fake one.