Keith Lee had a scrumptious 2023.
The viral TikTok meals reviewer toured eight completely different cities throughout his “Keith Lee and Household Meals Tour” and ranked every metropolis based mostly on his expertise.
Keith Lee Charges Eight Cities He Visited On His 2023 Meals Tour
Lee visited eight cities throughout the first leg of his meals tour that started on August 4. He loved 5 months of touring cities making an attempt out completely different space delicacies and serving to out small enterprise house owners within the course of.
“That is my official checklist of the locations that we went to on the Keith Lee and Household Meals Tour,” Lee stated in his recap video on TikTok. “Ranked from least favourite to most favourite, in my private opinion.”
As Lee is explaining that he ranked the cities based mostly on his personal opinion, phrases throughout the display screen clarify it additional: “My rankings are based mostly on my chance of going again to every metropolis strictly for his or her meals scene.”
He stated that making the checklist was powerful as a result of a couple of cities may have been tied for a specific rating. He then started his checklist beginning with the quantity eight spot.
“And at quantity eight, Atlanta. My largest subject with Atlanta is that it was exhausting for us to get meals,” he defined. “I’m a standard particular person however I perceive that some folks’s notion is completely different. But when different folks understand me as a standard particular person, and I went to Atlanta simply to get meals, I wouldn’t have ate nothing. I imply, nothing. And even with folks perceiving me the best way they understand me, we nonetheless barely ate, however once we did eat, it was scrumptious.”
Quantity seven on the checklist: New York Metropolis. For Lee, the problem with New York have been the spots that have been really useful for him to go to.
“I genuinely don’t suppose we obtained the New York expertise,” he continued. “However I attempted each avenue I probably may attempt to get the New York expertise.”
Detroit got here in on the quantity six spot on the checklist. Lee stated he wished Detroit to be within the high spot as a result of he’s from there, however as a workforce, they determined that the variety at different spots “outshined Detroit.”
He continued to clarify that the meals spots and customer support on the locations he visited in Detroit have been actually good, however the lack of variety is what set it decrease on the checklist.
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Los Angeles got here in at quantity 5.
“Now granted, we didn’t do a full meals tour there, however we went to L.A. like 20 occasions this 12 months,” he stated. “And originally, it was actually exhausting for us to search out actually good genuine meals spots. However in direction of the top, we actually discovered some wonderful spots that made L.A. go up on the checklist.”
Lee even defined that whereas he went on file saying he wasn’t a fan of the L.A. meals scene, he now retracts that assertion.
“After exploring and actually going to L.A. spots, and we haven’t even actually went to all of the L.A. spots, we simply went to some,” he continued. “Scrumptious.”
The quantity 4 spot goes to Lee‘s hometown of Las Vegas. Variety is one thing he stated that stands out for Vegas.
“Vegas opened the door for me in the case of completely different meals and completely different cultures, and listening to folks’s tales, and get out of my shell,” he stated. “Once I obtained off the Strip and went to the neighborhoods and I went to the communities and I went to those mom-and-pop spots, it actually opened my eyes, it opened my horizons, it opened doorways.”
Time For The High 3 Cities On Keith Lee’s Meals Tour!
After revealing who made the quantity 4 by eight spots on the checklist, it’s time for the highest three cities.
Earlier than transferring on to the quantity three spot, Lee stated Miami will get an honorable point out. Lee didn’t do a full meals tour cease there however was in Miami visiting household and felt it was price mentioning.
“Quantity three: Chicago. Nearly each time we obtained meals, completely scrumptious,” he stated. “It’s not a lot I even obtained to say about Chicago. It simply was an incredible place for me to be in. I beloved it there.”
Houston got here in on the quantity two spot on the checklist. Lee stated that almost each spot they visited was scrumptious, however one spot stands out essentially the most.
“The Puddery. I’ve at all times been very choosy on desserts trigger I’m probably not an enormous sweets particular person,” he stated. “I like sweets, however they obtained to be excellent for my part for me to essentially like them. And The Puddery, boy.”
He additionally stated he can’t consider one spot in Houston that they didn’t love.
Drum roll time! The primary spot belongs to New Orleans. Lee stated that the customer support set New Orleans aside from the opposite cities, and never by a lot, however simply sufficient to take the highest spot.
“In every single place we went, we felt like household. I’m speaking about, it felt like I used to be going to my cousin’s home. It didn’t really feel like I used to be going to a restaurant,” he stated. “It didn’t really feel like I used to be going to an institution. It felt like I used to be going to auntie, mama, papa, whoever’s home you wanna go to. That’s what it felt like.”
Lee stated he left 15 kilos heavier and he would completely do it another time.
“Once I stated New Orleans was a ‘fo present your proper on,’ completely in each sense of the phrase,” he stated.
Lee concluded his video by saying he’s simply getting began and “2024 about to be loopy.” He thanked everybody for being on this journey with him and revealed that the second leg of the tour will start on the “high of the 12 months.”
