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wikiDOMO's Tastiest Awards

It's a tough job... 

... steak and lobster... coconut shrimp... best wines of the Niagara region...  mmmmmm!

We really wanted to recognize some of the best restaurants in the region, so what better place to do this than at the Food and Drink Fest... the Festival with Taste! The event took place this past weekend (March 27th to 29th) at the Hamilton Convention Centre! Our friends at Beau Monde Productions always put on a great show, and we all thought this show pushed the bar up even higher.

We sponsored awards in 3 categories: Tastiest Dish, Best Unique Dish, and Best Customer Service. 

As with all things wikiDOMO, everyone had a chance to vote and have their voice heard. Hundreds of happy show-goers stopped by the wikiDOMO booth to cast their ballots and chat about their favourites. So, you can understand, we had to try out the common favourites... so we can talk about them of course. I told you it was a tough job!

We presented the awards on Sunday. And the winners are... (drum-roll please):

Tastiest Dish:

1st place: SB Prime

2nd place: My-Thai Restaurant

3rd place: Sizzle Steakhouse

Best Unique Dish:

1st place: SB Prime

2nd place: My-Thai Restaurant

3rd place: Kookaburra Restaurant

Best Customer Service:

1st place: La Piazza

2nd place: Sizzle Steakhouse

3rd place: SB Prime

So, what do you think? Agree? Disagree? Got your other favourites? You can find them and rate them now. 

Personally, I'm not crazy about super spicy food, but Hot Mama's Foods got it going on! That's some great hot sauce! How about you? What are your favourites?

By: Dragan Stojanovic

Rate your fiance's cooking? Has wikiDOMO gone too far?

Ok, then how about rating the marriage proposal itself? Yes, on a scale of 1 to 10 – wikiDOMO style.

That’s exactly what we did this past weekend at the Hamilton-Halton Fall Wedding Show. Our friends at Beau Monde Productions put on a great show as record numbers turned out at the Hamilton Convention Centre for all things “wedding”.

It was all in good fun, as we put eight couples in front of hundreds of "fans" and through the “wikiDOMO Rating Challenge”. They showed off how well they really know each other – or not!

A highlight for me was a great couple where a man of wisdom rated his fiancé’s cooking as “8”. When poked further by our energetic host, he admitted that “her cooking is not good, but I didn’t want to hurt her feelings” (I’m paraphrasing here). If we all could, I think he deserved a “10” for that answer! Even better was the fact that his fiancé actually rated her own cooking at a … well, it was actually off the wikiDOMO scale… a zero! It’s a good thing that the prizes for our four winning couples included dinners at some great local restaurants, including Pastacino and La Piazza Allegra.

So, where is the feature to rate your spouse’s cooking on wikiDOMO? If you want to score brownie-points, or just make a point… we are going to stay out of that one for now! But, if your spouse is a chef or cooks as a business, then we’ll have some good news for both of you soon.

Congratulations and a lifetime of happiness to all our winning couples!

By: Dragan Stojanovic