Chowhound.com, friend of the traveling food lover, always had a slightly weak spot: the overly general "South" board.
As a catchall for non-Atlanta, non-New Orleans restaurants, it worked pretty well in the early days. As the boards got busier, the topics piled up fast. Because the South, from Virginia to Louisiana, is a pretty big chunk of real estate.
Recently, Chowhound divided the South into thinner slices of territory. (See the new zones listed below:)
The divisions make it a little easier to find the answer to your question, or answer questions, without wading through dozens of posts on the Carolinas.
With Chowhound, my involvement waxes and wanes. When I use the boards to get advice, I try to spend time answering others' questions to "pay back" to the community. It's been a long time since my last reply, but today there was a question on Monteagle eateries — a pretty unusual query, as it's not exactly a stop on everyone's itinerary.
Do Bites readers use chowhound.com, and if so, do you reply as well as ask? Has Yelp superceded Chowhound as the go-to site for advice, or does it strike anyone else as more thickly populated by inexperienced diners than chowhound? Where else do you turn for food recommendations on the road?
