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10 Restaurant Pet Peeves & Ideas for Better Dining

Not everything can be “tapas," using review sites as rage therapy, and overstimulation at experience restaurants—plus more food and drink grievances
Restaurant pet peeves including calling everything tapas

In this episode of Happy Half Hour, hosts Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant air their pet peeves, small and large and farcical. There’s some real info here (the cost of eggs is insane), they suggest a policy for “no interruption dining,” and Troy lays out the plans for his ultimate kid-friendly restaurants, which involves stadium seating at abandoned ice rinks across the city. Very specific hopes and dreams for a utopian food and drink culture in 2025. Check out the episode above.

By Jackie Bryant

Jackie is San Diego Magazine's and Studios' content strategist. Prior to that, she was its managing editor. Before her SDM career, she was a long-time freelance journalist covering cannabis, food/restaurants, travel, labor, wine, spirits, arts & culture, design, and other topics. Her work has been selected twice for Best American Travel Writing, and she has won a variety of national and local awards for her writing and reporting.

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