A Rochester restaurant review collective. RRR restaurant reviews are about .5 stars less than you'd see in Google reviews.
Roulette FAQs
Dish names as written on the restaurant’s menu and/or website appear in pink. .
We link to the restaurant in the first paragraph of each post. .
We note how many Rouletters were at dinner, how many are reviewing based on a separate experience at the restaurant, and how many we have reviewing total at the beginning of each blog post. If the numbers don’t add up it means one or more of the Rouletters at dinner didn’t fill out the review form. .
To calculate the star ratings, we ask each Rouletter to review every dish they tried on a scale from 1-5 and to leave comments if they choose. Then we add them all up and divide by the number of reviewers. Comments are used to create the descriptions you see here. We do the same with drinks, service, and scoring the restaurant overall. If we change any raw number, we indicate that and explain the reason for the deviation (SUPER rare). .
It is highly unlikely that the exact same set of Rouletters will review two restaurants. This is a true reflection of folks who frequent a restaurant on any given day: some will be tough customers and some will be easy ones, but they will never be exactly the same. .
The Parisian Paradox, named after the most polarizing dish at the most polarizing Roulette in history, the Roux review, is a designation for dish of each Roulette that is the most polarizing. We use this particular green for the designation as it is a rather polarizing shade. .
The 🏆 Shrimp Toast Award 🏆, named after the earth-shatteringly amazing Shrimp Toast from our Nosh review, goes to any dish that is a superiorly scrumptious sleeper. If you run a pizza place, your signature pizza isn’t going to get this even if it is 5 stars and everyone’s favorite dish of the night. It has to be something unexpected – a true underdog of a dish with low expectations that becomes the talk of the Roulette table. .
The Bibimbust designation, named after the vegetarian bibimbap from our Public Provisions review, goes to any unfortunate dish that a) scores under 1.8 overall, and b) is talked about in revulsion for the rest of the night and beyond. The Bibimbust designation is the exact opposite of the Shrimp Toast Award.