Camillus, N.Y. — Indulge me for a moment as I pull back the curtain and explain my approach to writing restaurant reviews.
My visits are unannounced, and I write about what I experience in an effort to provide an unbiased account of the food, service and atmosphere of the establishment. And even if the restaurant is terrible – and there have been a few in my 10 years of writing these – I try to find at least one positive thing to say. Sometimes a restaurant has an off night, but I’ve come to learn that two visits to the same restaurant often end in the same result.
So, with all of that said, my recent visit to the Bulfinch Taphouse and Bistro in Camillus was not bad, but it wasn’t particularly good either. If you and I were talking to one another and you asked me what I thought, I would shrug, tilt my head to one side and say, “Ehhhhhh.”…