Search for Mediocrity

Welcome...

...to "Search for Mediorcity"... a blog about really crap restaurant / cafe / food / drink experiences in Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Restaurants in Canberra are usually just striving for mediocrity - but a lot fail miserably. Whether it be through the lack of competition, the really bad uni-student service, the Canberra people that keep going back to the same dive restaurants, or the occasional weevils in your chicken focaccias (hello - "My Cafe" at Manuka - big shout out to you!) - Canberra has more crappy restaurants, cafes and fast food joints than any other Australian city per capita or square meter.

I am going to blatently "steal" the rating system from the excellent website - www.mrcranky.com - but for food and wine:

1 Bomb:

Almost Tolerable

2 Bombs:

Consistently painful

3 Bombs:

Will require medical attention after dining

4 Bombs:

As good as a poke in the eye with a sharp fork

Dynamite:

So gawd-awful that it ruptured the very fabric of space and time with the sheer overpowering force of its mediocrity

Nuke:

Proof that Jesus died in vain

Feel free to post comments, etc to this site. And enjoy our first review - Montezuma's....