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The Best Restaurant
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Published 2013
The word ‘restaurant’ used to mean a place where you did, literally, go to restore yourself (The Oxford Dictionary of Etymology definition includes ‘establishment for the provision of refreshments or meals. 1765; earlier in the sense “restorative”’), and I don’t think that element should escape the proprietor if he or she takes his or her business seriously.
A restaurant is never only about the food, it is, at best, a place that makes you feel at home; the question is, what makes you feel at home? And the answer is, it’s different for all of us.