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Beyond Dining in the Dark: What It’s Actually Like to Eat Out When You’re Blind

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Listen to this article In 1999, the first “dining in the dark” restaurant opened in Zurich, Switzerland. Blindekuh was founded by a blind pastor to generate empathy for blind people, and dining in the dark restaurants have provided reliable jobs for the chronically underemployed blind workforce. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

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Dash From the Past: A Decade Delivered In 2013, things started off small, with a simple idea. Today, we’re looking back on the decade to see how much our tastes have changed since 2013 and what’s stayed consistent — our passion for chicken sandwiches, for one. Since 2013, more than 600 million (!)

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. In November 2013, a 22-year-old cook named John Schaible arrived in Pocantico Hills, New York, to work at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

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Three Heavenly Food-Filled Day Trips From Paris

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You’d miss out on some truly compelling food experiences only a short drive or train ride away. Even before construction was completed, the chefs were supplying fruits and vegetables to some of Paris’s top restaurants, such as Mokonuts and Septime. Marine Billet The gardens at Le Doyenné. Le Doyenné A room at Le Doyenné.

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

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Today, Pilsen is one of the hippest areas in Chicago, with a thriving arts scene, fine dining options, and quaint cafes that continue to entice wealthier transplants to the area as working-class Mexicans who have lived there for years are displaced. On one hand, he misses the neighborhood he grew up in. In the video , S.K.Y.’s

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A Series of Extremely Scientific Theories on Why Fun Is Fun

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The ostentatious, performative elements popping up at restaurants nationwide certainly are a lot of fun. But, of course, we might also ask ourselves: Why have restaurants become venues for these kinds of theatrics? In fact, might all this fun be undergirded by a theoretical framework tied to, say, our existential ennui? Or cultural decline!

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Top 40 Restaurants in Portland

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Whether you’re looking for American, Mexican, Chinese, or anything in between, restaurants in Portland deliver authentic and innovative dining experiences and, of course, delicious food. Le Pigeon is a fine-dining French Restaurant in East Portland between the Kerns and Buckman neighborhoods. Best Restaurants in Portland.