The Foodandbeermonger Ratings System - Food

: These restaurants serve predominantly exceptional cuisine and are worth a special journey at any cost. These restaurants are the equivalent of Michael Jordan, watching Star Wars, or attending UVA.

: These restaurants oftentimes serve exceptional cuisine and are the equivalent of Larry Bird or watching Bill Murray movies.

: These restaurants consistently serve high quality, occasionally exceptional cuisine and are much like Tom Brady or Britney Spears gossip.

: These restaurants consistently serve good food but food that rarely approaches exceptionality. Will Smith's movies and basketball career (He played under the pseudonym Big Shot Rob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Horry) define this category.

: These restaurants often serve food that tastes good: nothing more, nothing less. They could easily be compared to movies (especially recent movies) starring Will Ferrell.

: These restaurants serve food that is sometimes tasty but usually is merely passable. One could say they are the Kim Kardashian of eateries.

: These restaurants serve food that is edible only if you are in dire need of sustenance. They are like listening to celebrities who act important and discuss political issues that they know nothing about, i.e., the cheerleader from Heroes putting Hillary Clinton on notice that she was waiting to talk to her before endorsing anyone. I'm sure Hillary was all over that one.

: These restaurants serve food that is practically inedible. Essentially, they are the restaurant world version of the coaching abilities of Al Groh.

Zero Cutting Boards: These restaurants serve irrelevant, inedible, and disgusting food and are the equivalent of watching movies starring Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday notwithstanding) or listening to music by Heidi Montag.