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011. on restaurants, social capital, and crypto

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Part I: how restaurants became entertainment platforms & got rugged in the process

Last table left in Carbone, callin' plays on the rotary phone, I take a glass of Domina to go with me home —Drake, “Do Not Disturb” In 1782, La Grande Taverne de Londres, a restaurant in the Rue de Richelieu, opened up its doors to the public in Paris. The man behind the restaurant, Antoine Beauvilliers, a 28 year old restaurateur, would go on to become one of the world’s first, leading culinary writers. But more importantly, his restaurant would mark an important shift in humanity’s relationship with food. For tens of thousands of years until the opening of La Grande Taverne de Londres,…

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