I have a different trick, I filter out English reviews on Tripadvisor and favor heavily places with good Japanese reviews. I find that my tastes in term of foo

I have a different trick, I filter out English reviews on Tripadvisor and favor heavily places with good Japanese reviews. I find that my tastes in term of food align with Japanese (and in a smaller measure French and Italian) customers whereas British and Americans tend to have very different tastes than me. Interestingly too, Japanese customers tend to be stricter in their ratings (this can be seen in Tabelog in Japan where 3.6 is a really good score for a restaurant).