I have found it preferable to visit the restaurant in question, look around, read the menu, and decide based on those cues around me whether it's worth risking

I have found it preferable to visit the restaurant in question, look around, read the menu, and decide based on those cues around me whether it's worth risking a meal there. Yelp has become useless, and TripAdvisor is as bad if not worse. The reviews on Google Maps are wholly unreliable as well.