Le Peep

07/14/06

Not Open for Dinner, Shouldn't Be Open for Lunch or Breakfast Either

by wfgiuliano at Citysearch

I decided to give Le Peep a try because of its sky-high rating on Citysearch. I tried the banana nut pancakes and they were just like yo mamma used to make--if she was a lousy cook who used a cheap supermarket pancake mix and not quite ripe bananas. I also ordered eggs that somehow were both cold and overcooked, sausage (with a little piece of bone in it) and a glass of (warmish) OJ. The "more than fair" bill came to $17, not including gratuity, just for me! What made up for the food, however, was the wonderful ambience, which was straight out of a 1980s sitcom with *very* low production values. Gosh, wasn't "Charles in Charge" great?

But how to account for that astronomically high rating? Perhaps fraud, you know, the owner slyly logging in under multiple screen names to give their shoddy (that sounds close to the adjective I really want to use) eatery rave reviews. I suspect, though, that the good people who run Le Peep lack enough initiative to do that. Therefore, I attribute the positive reviews to one thing: pity. This is such a pathetic little joint that one must harden his heart before writing a truthful critique.

I was taught that if you don't have anything nice to say, it's better to say nothing at all, but in this case I had to make an exception, because it seems to me that this 9.8 rating is like a life-support machine for a patient that should have long ago gone to his reward. It's time to pull the plug!

• Pros: You'll Feel Like an Actor in a Mediocre 80s Sitcom
• Cons: Everything else!