Keith Lee had a scrumptious 2023.
The viral TikTok meals reviewer toured eight totally 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 attempting out totally different space delicacies and serving to out small enterprise homeowners 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 clarify it additional: “My rankings are based mostly on my likelihood of going again to every metropolis strictly for his or her meals scene.”
He stated that making the checklist was robust as a result of just a few 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 greatest subject with Atlanta is that it was exhausting for us to get meals,” he defined. “I’m a traditional individual however I perceive that some individuals’s notion is totally different. But when different individuals understand me as a traditional individual, and I went to Atlanta simply to get meals, I wouldn’t have ate nothing. I imply, nothing. And even with individuals perceiving me the way in which 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 helpful for him to go to.
“I genuinely don’t suppose we received 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 needed Detroit to be within the prime spot as a result of he’s from there, however as a staff, 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 range 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 initially, 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 document 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 totally different meals and totally different cultures, and listening to individuals’s tales, and get out of my shell,” he stated. “After I received 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 means of 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. Virtually each time we received meals, completely scrumptious,” he stated. “It’s not a lot I even received 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 just about 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 individual,” he stated. “I like sweets, however they received to be excellent in my view for me to actually 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 other than 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 over again.
“After 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 “prime of the 12 months.”
