Genre Conventions

I am thinking of writing a restaurant review, which will allow me to write about my experience at a restaurant and share my thoughts on it with my readers so they can decide whether or not they should try out this restaurant. I read a few different kinds of restaurant reviews, which all gave me more information about the restaurant that the author reviewed and what he or she thought about it. At first I was going to write a more formal restaurant review, but then I decided writing a blog style review listing out short reviews from different places would be more interesting.

The purpose of these blog style reviews is to review many food places that serve the same kind of food and compare them, so readers will have a chance to consider different places to try out. Most of the reviews I picked out were for restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I’m from, and I will be writing about places there since I have been able to try a lot of different restaurants back home. I noticed that in all of these reviews, the author would list out the name of the restaurant, the location, and what kind of food was served at the restaurant. For example, in the “Bay Area Boba” blog, the author included a list of top boba shops and under each one, she would write a short review of the shop. In all of my sources, there was a picture for each restaurant review, which would show either a picture of the restaurant or of the food that the author ordered. In some of the reviews, there would also be an exact address of the place; for example, in the Eater SF Coffee Shops blog, the address of each shop is included along with a map showing where exactly the location is. Each author reviewed a different number of places; for example, in the Bay Area Boba blog, the author did a review of the top 5 boba shops in the South Bay, while in the Top NY Restaurants, the author did a review of the top ten restaurants.

Here are the texts that I will be writing about:

Top NY Restaurants

Bay Area Boba

Coffee Around the SF Bay Area

Healthy Fast Food Around the Bay Area

 

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