YATS: "The Worst Dining Experience Of My Career As A Food Writer"

Normally, when I write a restaurant review, I try to avoid indulging in blow-by-blow course descriptions, poor adjectives and Architectural Digest-style décor treatises, a feat I like to call the "Pat Bruno." Instead, I try to look for the story behind the restaurant, personal memoir spurred by dining at the establishment or a cultural context in which to put the food. But I was so appalled by the experience and the food at YATS Cajun-Creole Cuisine, a new Chicago location of a popular quick-service Indianapolis-based restaurant, I'm having a hard time avoiding a hyperbolic damning diatribe. Eating there last week was the worst dining experience--and that includes trips to the now-shuttered Bennigans--of my career as a food writer.

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