Word: diner
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Amongst foodies, restaurants tips are traded like currency, valued according to a complex, and highly secret, algorithm. An ostentatious French restaurant with imported china, excessive drapery and a wine list longer than the OED is worth pennies–any unwitting diner can find it simply by opening their latest copy of Zagat’s to “Most Popular.” In this world, points are subtracted for celebrity chefs, and service and decor are only a detraction from delicious food, not a means to an end. The Holy Grail, the establishment that serves...
While they decided not to revive the old practice of ringing their bronze gong every time an unwanted diner enters, Adams residents have volunteered to help the dining hall staff police the flow of diners at the checker desk...
Alas, dessert. Once again, an honest waitstaff came to the rescue of the indecisive diner faced with very standard dessert choices—sorbet, crème brulée, apple gallette, bread pudding, something chocolate. In their opinion, the sorbet was really good, and while the traditional crème brulée was really great and made with excellent vanilla, a chocolate lover simply had to try the chocolate pudding cake. The sorbet trio was a duo at Metropolis ($7) and once again, this gold standard of the remaining desserts had just a little something extra that made...
...Tasty, a 24-hour diner that occupied that same corner of Harvard Square for 81 years, closed its doors in 1997 because Cambridge Savings Bank, the owner of the building, chose to renovate. The Tasty never reopened. In the face of rising rental costs for the premium real estate, The Tasty submitted to chain stores like Pacific Sunwear, Abercrombie and Fitch and Finagle a Bagel...
Today, the absence of The Tasty, the diner that Matt Damon took Minnie Driver to in the movie Good Will Hunting, is still conspicuous. No 24-hour restaurant has replaced it. There is an IHOP just down Soldiers Field Road, but due to the scarcity of cars among students, few experience the joys of pancakes...