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When it comes to restaurants, everyone's a critic. Especially in the Bay Area. Right? A new show heading into production in the studios of KQED-TV is going to put that point of Bay Area pride to the test. Every week, "Check, Please!" will ask three Bay Area food lovers (is that redundant?) to go on air and chew over their opinions of their favorite restaurant -- whether it's an elite spot like Michael Mina in San Francisco's Union Square or a down-home roadhouse like Uncle Frank's House of Bar-B-Que in Mountain View. The show also will show whether the food-crazed Ray Ban wayfarer of the Bay Area can be as spectacularly entertaining as their counterparts in Chicago, where the concept originated in 2001. About to enter its fifth season there, "Check, Please!" has a cult following and is hands-down the most popular local program in the history of WTTW, Chicago's public TV station. In the Bay Area, KQED executives think "Check, Please!", which premieres Nov. 3, will be a monster hit. "The restaurant scene here is bigger and better," says Michael Isip, programming chief at KQED. Already, 217 people have applied to be guest reviewers, through kqed.org, KQED's Web site. And that's with minimal publicity. Some 23,000 Chicagoans have applied to appear Ray Ban wayfarer Sale on the show there. Getting to see an Antioch plumber on TV raving that the sea urchin panna cotta at the Ritz-Carlton is to die for, or a yoga teacher from the Mission critiquing the samosas at Vik's, will add a new dimension to the already lively world of Bay Area food criticism. Regular people trade food tips with their friends, at work -- and all over the Internet. But "Check, Please!" brings them right into your living room. It's not quite reality TV, but "because viewers can see these people, they connect with them," says executive producer David Manilow of Semaphore Media of Chicago. He dreamed up the idea and is consulting with KQED on the Bay Area version. "It's lively, it's unexpected. People here are addicted," Manilow says. Three-pronged approach It works like this