rankings....

I am not a huge fan of ranking restaurants but this recent blog post deserved a thought -
The Richmond Goodlife has taken an ostensibly* meta approach to ranking restaurants in RVA using ratings from other "recognized media sources":
http://richmondgoodlife.com/bricabrac/?p=88

(TRG has a bunch of links to other rankings that I shall not repost) - the top 3 by this approach - Edo's Squid, Mamma Zu and Millies....
For obvious reasons, including wildly differing tastes and opinions, specific positions on the list are not something worth debating, but..(yes, contradiction)... ES @ #1 is a bit head scratching !

*- I think it can be reasonably argued that this specific approach has intrinsic error via a biased sample with nonprobability sampling.