I miss eating out

 I didn't eat out a lot in Boston in the best of times. Maybe once a week, twice or thrice a month at best, with friends and acquaintances in large groups, with coworkers during lunch, perhaps couple of times a month.

Eating out, good food at good places with fun people is a joyous occasion. You get served, you are made an amazing item, something creative interesting, a work of passion that you then eat and discuss and comment and review, you remember it or a long time. You don't have to think about what you'll make or how long it'll be or what ingredients you need. Once you're at a location, there's no worrying about what kind of cuisine it'll be.

I told the idea to roommates and they said that the last year pandemic et al. have made them realize how crappy food was at various places. Which is entirely fair. Mike's bar in Davis Square for example, used to be cheap with mediocre food, now they are expensive kinda' with even more alright food. You wouldn't want to make it an occasion to go there for food. But that's the point of it, you go there for drinks, because they have large beers for cheap there, the good ones on tap as well. You go somewhere else, like Flatbread or Five horses for good food. You enjoy the occasion, appreciate the servers, the cooks, and everybody out there who's gonna make you happy. We're all going through this together. Show them all love and compassion.

I miss being served in the restaurants. I miss eating good, complex food. I miss not having to worry about food. I miss being inspired. I miss going on food-driven adventures. I miss exploring new places, new sandwiches, new desserts, new cuisines.

And I wasn't even one of them outside eaters.

Give us that old world back.

They're saying the cuisine scene, the eating world is going to be so very different once the pandemic ends and people are more comfortable eating out, they'll realize it's so much cheaper to order in or make food. It's just a whole load of lies, ordering in is as expensive if not more than eating out, and that's without the benefit of amazing ambience or great service. And the privilege to talk to great people and check out cute well-off young people, and well-dressed older folks.

Hope eating out is back to normal soon.