talk up

The restaurant had been talked up way too much, that it left me somewhat disappointed.

“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”

And it’s said very well, and I like to hear a chap talk up that way; you are just the man for him—the likes of ye.