Unnecessary Caviar on Potatoes
What happens when restaurants try to be cool
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8 min readJan 30, 2024
This is a story about a small bowl of potatoes with caviar on them, but it’s also about growing up. It’s about living in the same place for so long you can’t walk down the street without seeing ghosts of every storefront’s former tenants. It’s about minimalism v. maximalism, or the 2010s v. the 2020s. Most importantly, it’s about a…