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Piquant Restaurant Moments to Look Forward to As Indoor Dining Returns

Indoor dining returns to New York City this week, kinda, sorta, maybe, and for who knows how long? But as the warmth of dining rooms — albeit at a quarter occupancy — beckons, we can’t but help grow excited thinking about all those little moments of eating out that were buried in the COVID-19 tundra, those trifling restaurant pleasures that, like much of the pleasure of dining out, have little to do with the food itself.

Illustration: Julia Rothman
Illustration: Julia Rothman
Illustration: Julia Rothman
Illustration: Julia Rothman
Illustration: Julia Rothman
Illustration: Julia Rothman
Piquant Moments to Look Forward to As Indoor Dining Returns