What makes a good restaurant?
There’s so much more to dining out than simply scoffing, paying the bill and heading for the door. The places in which we seek company and sustenance reflect what we value, as well as where our lives have taken us and where we’re heading. And, says Debora Robertson, if you can see and hear while you’re tucking in, even better
Restaurants have been the canvas on which I have painted the most important scenes of my life – from falling in and out of love to job interviews, forging friendships, playing over family dramas, exchanging scandals and deciding who will live and who will die (oh, sorry, that was an episode of The Sopranos).
When I was in my early 20s, consuming platters of oysters amid the clatter of Les Deux Magots in Paris, or devouring Sunday morning eggs benedict on the Upper West Side of New York, restaurants opened up the world to me.