Cobbs, Carpaccios and Crawfish: Guy Choateâs Top 10 Meals of 2020 December 31, 202011:04 am When I started reviewing meals in 2017, a significant portion of my acquaintancesâ Instagram feeds featured photos of the food they consumed, posted with a hyperbolic caption about the meal being âthe best,â which irritated me to no end. Not so much because those kinds of food posts are obnoxious, but because not every meal can be âthe best.â Thatâs when I decided to start ranking my own meals. Thatâs what I do â rank food, rather than review it. At the end of every month, I publish how my meals that month ranked against each other. I keep a running list on a Tumblr account that only a few close friends and my mother follow. (My wife Liz checks it occasionally so she can get mad at me if I go somewhere good without her.) My âreviewsâ are merely notes to myself so that I can remember what I ate and thus rank it accordingly. I donât take into account anything but taste, even though itâs hard sometimes to ignore plate presentation and restaurant ambiance, and even harder to ignore terrible (or extraordinary) service.