restaurants

Last year, we introduced our annual restaurant awards with guarded optimism that the dining scene was (finally!) back to normal — or, at least, had found a new, possibly better-in-some-ways normal. And here we are. A year later, it still seems appropriate to note that, yep, the world has changed, food has changed, the way we live our lives, including eating out, has changed. So, this feature has, too.

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The restaurant business isn’t what it used to be, and the last two years of the pandemic took a slice out of already low profit margins. That’s led many…

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