I Made My Shed the Top-Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor

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I think this is a complete riot. But I also feel tremendous empathy. I get maybe one nice night a year with my wife. I know nothing about fine dining. But maybe I find this place and I take her. I'm almost in tears right now feeling the hypothetical gut wrenching realization that I completely ruined the evening.

I'm so afraid, to a fault, that I'll mess up the perfect days she deserves, so maybe I'm alone in how awful I feel that they actually fooled with real people by the end. A bit too far.

Is it really so bad that they fooled real people at the end? The people thought they were getting a world class meal. Their enjoyment of the experience is real.

And even if you did end up going to this "restaurant" and later found out that it was a fake restaurant that somehow made it to the top of TripAdvisor, then you end up with a story about being one of a dozen or so couples that got to have this experience.

It seems like a win either way.

The shed isn't actually serving world-class meals or anything that appears as such.

My wife and I totally have this sense of humor... On any other day than the one day where we get a babysitter and dress up and really try. :)

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