The talk around here comes to the state of restaurants in the bay area a lot, and whether they are good enough, in general, and why can't they be better. Blah, blah, blah. Well, apparently, we aren't the only place having that conversation. After John Kessler, the dining critic at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, wrote a open-letter blog post challenging area chefs to up their game, one of Atlanta's chefs, Nick Oltarsh of two Atlanta restaurants, responded with an open letter to diners, challenging diners to reward chefs for upping their game. I thought both letters brought up a lot of good points and were applicable far outside the 404 area code.