[redwitch]

As hard as it may be to do, the trick may be to lower your expectations. If you're like me, you're used to good restaurants even in suburbia because they're competing with San Francisco restaurants. That makes a huge difference in quality.

The factors I've found that make it difficult to find a truly good meal here are (1) enough people aren't willing to pay the price for a good meal; (2) for many, their taste buds have dulled and, therefore, cooks (not many chefs here) don't have to work as hard to make a meal be good; (3) folks are willing to settle for lower quality to save money so they can eat out most nights.

I have found that food quality does seem to go up during snowbird season (wonder if it has something to do with a willingness to send back a bad meal -- something we frogs seem to be hesitant to do).