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The Bore

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In 2023, Please Keep These Things Away from Me public
The Bore

In 2023, Please Keep These Things Away from Me

Due to the pandemic, I have taken the past two years off from writing snarky bores, my annual bitchfest about things I don’t want to see in restaurants in the new year. And to be completely honest, it still doesn’t feel quite right to complain about anything, knowing…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
In 2022, This One's on You public
The Bore

In 2022, This One's on You

Well, we’re pretty much in an eerily similar, exasperating pandemic position that we were in last winter. We’re seeing restaurants (and bars) making the hard decision to close their dining rooms, or temporarily close completely so their already severely short-staffed teams can stay healthy, quarantine, or recuperate from…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
In 2021, Let's See More of This, Everyone public
The Bore

In 2021, Let's See More of This, Everyone

For the past 14 years (since 2007!), I’ve been writing my annual end-of-year snarkfest, the bore, bitching about 10 overexposed/overdone things I don’t want to see in the new year, from fried chicken sandwiches to bone broth to NOmakase. This year, obviously, things are painfully different. Our…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
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