Finding Good Food at the Expense of Everything Else Pleasant About Eating

If something on the menu sounds bad, it might well be especially good. Order the ugly and the unknown.

Avoid restaurants with beautiful women, hipsters and smiling and laughing people.

Look for the most Islamic of Pakistani restaurants. No alcohol means they have to emphasize the quality of the food to win customers.

Economist and accidental restaurant expert Tyler Cowen also “reserves his harshest comments for the damage children have done to American food.”

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