Show Format
In addition to reviews, the show features interviews with restaurant owners and chefs, a segment on determining the best grocery item of a chosen category(Top of the Food Chain), and a segment on recipes. The show also gives a Great 8 selection of restaurants that are the best in their category, and a Hidden Jewel that features a unique restaurant that people may not have heard of. At the end of each show, a Dish Worth Driving To award is awarded, which is a restaurant in the outlying areas of the Metro Boston area (though sometimes as far away as Rhode Island or New Hampshire).
Though not all ten criteria are necessarily used for every restaurant, the reviews rate the atmosphere, menu, appetizers, entrees, desserts, portion sizes, service, cleanliness, value, and location. Each element is rated is out of ten points, leading to final, though sometimes overlapping rankings of:
- Phan-tastic Dining (~90-100)
- Gourmet Greatness (~80-90)
- Phantom Approved (~75-80)
- Phantom Mezza Mezza (~65-75)
- Phantom Flawed (~65 and below)
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