Keith Lee is arguably some of the viral names in TikTok meals protection. Over the previous seven months, he’s been on a “meals tour” across the nation, most just lately hitting the San Francisco Bay Space and leaving early after a dangerous expertise with some seafood. He’s been to a number of cities, together with Houston, New Orleans, and Atlanta — the final of which was stuffed with dramatic reveals about dangerous experiences that Eater Atlanta known as a “takedown” of town’s service trade.
To again it up, for those who’re not already conscious of the Keith Lee TikTok phenomenon, he’s a former MMA fighter turned meals influencer with simply shy of 16 million followers. He goes to domestically owned companies, primarily mother and pop spots, to attempt the meals, with some guidelines. He at all times buys his personal meals, tries to not be acknowledged (often by sending a member of the family in for him), and shoots his evaluations in his automotive whereas consuming. And whereas his data of meals isn’t precisely deep (he ceaselessly flails for phrases to explain what he’s consuming), it’s enthusiastic. He’s recognized for freeze-framing or slow-mo photographs of his face in an ungainly second of pure enjoyment.
Lee is making some modifications to his meals tour in Dallas on TikTok, together with including classes of eating places — one is the “audience” of spots with good meals and repair however need assistance advertising and marketing themselves to an even bigger viewers. Principally, giving like to floundering family-owned eating places. The second might be “native favorites” which might be picked by voting in a ballot on his Instagram tales (it was not reside at press time). And the third is variety, selecting from varied cuisines and eating places owned by of us of various ethnicities.
Lee accepts nominations through feedback and DMs for family-owned eating places to go to and introduced in his TikTok that the identical goes for eating places of various backgrounds.
Feedback thus far on his Dallas submit are suggesting Terry Black’s Barbecue from a number of of us who don’t understand it’s an Austin joint that got here to Dallas, Cris and John’s, Mike’s Rooster, Val’s Cheesecakes, Pangea in Garland, Aunt Irene’s Kitchen, Hurtado Barbecue in Arlington, and particularly for him to attempt the Texas Twinkie at Hutchins BBQ. There are additionally a number of requires him to go to Carrollton’s Korea City. I can’t wait to listen to about driving everywhere in the Metroplex and see how Dallas and this new judging technique stack up.