tj usiyanI am convinced that eating in New York is less expensive than the Bay but folks seem convinced that they are about the same. I have a burgeoning theory but am I just way off?
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!@griotspeak nyc isn’t necessarily cheaper, but on the whole you get better quality and variety for the money
@steve That’s kind of the crux of my theory, I think. I realized later that people were probably talking about eating out at fancier places. I was literally talking about like… lunch and dinner on workdays
@griotspeak there are a lot of good under the radar places in the bay, but most of the mainstream “restaurant scene” doesn’t talk about them at all. NYC loves them.
@griotspeak big part of it is that people still go out in nyc. Door Dash etc have absolutely destroyed the “middle class” restaurant scene in the bay. A problem everywhere but much worse in SFBA.
Pretty much every great “casual” place I used to go in South Bay is gone, and every one of them closed up because it just didn’t make any sense to run a real restaurant when every order is delivery service.
@griotspeak (how dire was it? So dire that multiple chefs texted me, an east coaster who they hadn’t seen as a customer more often than once a quarter for a decade, to give me a heads up that they were going to close.)