This week on WMFE-FM, I chat with 90.7's Nicole Creston about online restaurant review resources. Listen in at 5:45 p.m. Friday or 9:35 Saturday morning. Or, click this link to hear this segment and past podcasts.

It used to be that the only regular source for restaurant reviews was the local newspaper and maybe a magazine or two. I was just fine with that because for 20 years I was the restaurant critic for a newspaper. Around 2007-2008, I started to notice that online resources were beginning to become more prominent. And I was just fine with that because in 2008 I left the Sentinel to start ScottJosephOrlando.com. (Actually, one of the deciding factors in my choosing to leave was the growing popularity of Yelp, which collected reviews of restaurants and other businesses from their customers. I figured it was only a matter of time before my employer saw that people were writing reviews of restaurants for free -- why would they continue to pay me?)

Now there are myriad resources for restaurant reviews, including the aforementioned Yelp, and others, such as Zagat and Urbanspoon, that aggregate multiple reviews. So instead of having just one opinion -- say, a professional restaurant critic -- you have the collective thoughts of several people, sometimes dozens or hundreds depending on the business.

Read more: Restaurant Reviews: They're Not Just in Print Any More

Paxia, the modernistic Mexican restaurant in College Park, started offering a brunch menu a while back, and I finally had a chance to experience it recently.  It’s called Pajama Brunch, and is available on both Saturday and Sunday. Not to worry, it’s OK if you don’t wear your pajamas; everyone there was fully dressed when I visited. I, on the other hand, had trouble keeping my robe cinched.

It’s an a la carte brunch menu, which I prefer. I don’t care for the all-you-can-gorge buffet brunches. I consider myself fairly disciplined, but even I end up eating way too much at one of those glutfests.

Read more: Pajama Brunch at Paxia

Enzian and Wine on the Way are presenting a special showing of El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, a documentary about Ferran Adria and the Spanish restaurant he recently closed. The screening will be Saturday, January 28, 2012, at 1 p.m. Following the movie, the Enzian chefs will offer some El Bulli-like samples at Eden Bar, the drinking and eating space outside the theater.

Some of the items planned are: Seared Scallops- with lemon air and red pepper coulis; Soft boiled Quail Egg- served on bacon noodles and parmesan crisp; Caprese Salad- Roma tomato slices topped with fresh mozzarella, balsamic pearls and basil dust; Strawberry Romanoff- Grand Marnier White Chocolate Mousse, strawberry foam and orange candy dust; S’more Truffle- Marshmallow dipped in chocolate and graham cracker dust.

Tickets are $10 plus $1.50 “ticketing operations fee,” whatever that is, and can be purchased through the Enzian website.

I suppose I caught Kingfish Bistro on a bad night, which is to say a good night for the restaurant. It was quite full, although it doesn’t take many people to fill up the small space on College Park’s Edgewater Drive. Only two tables were empty, but they had signs that said they were reserved. So my guest and I accepted the offer to sit at the bar overlooking the kitchen.

I wouldn’t exactly call it a show kitchen because that suggests a facility designed to be part cooking arena and part stage. Kingfish’s is a working kitchen, and a hard-working one at that. Probably harder than it needs to work, but more about that in a moment.

Read more: Kingfish Bistro