The Deleted Scenes - Are Steakhouses Restaurants?
This is, as I like /to call it, a “mostly-urbanism” newsletter. One of the topics that makes up the rest of that “mostly” is restaurants, which I write about occasionally. This is one of those pieces, with an element of the “evolutionary” thinking I like to apply to human ideas. Like I did here, for example, on the history of the “supercenter” as a retail concept:
What I’m asking today is, “Is a steakhouse a restaurant?” Of course it is, right? But the steakhouse has an interesting and unique history that distinguishes it from almost all other restaurants... Subscribe to The Deleted Scenes to read the rest.Become a paying subscriber of The Deleted Scenes to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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