While I sort through whatever is happening with GPT-4, today's scheduled post is two recent short stories about restaurant selection.

Ye Olde Restaurante

Tyler Cowen says that restaurants saying ‘since year 19xx’ are on net a bad sign, because they are frozen in time, focusing on being reliable.

For the best meals, he says look elsewhere, to places that shine brightly and then move on.

I was highly suspicious. So I ran a test.

I checked the oldest places in Manhattan. The list had 15 restaurants. A bunch are taverns, which are not relevant to my interests. The rest include the legendary Katz's Delicatessen, which is still on the short list of very best available experiences (yes, of course you order the Pastrami), and the famous Keen's Steakhouse. I don’t care for mutton, but their regular steaks are quite good. There's also Peter Lugar's [...]

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(00:12) Ye Olde Restaurante

(04:41) Ye Newfangled Restaurante

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