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It's Too Hot to Cook!

It's Too Hot to Cook!

Featuring Meals at Via Carota, Runner and Stone, and Pastis.

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Jul 11, 2025
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Hey everyone,

Just like asparagus has a season, so does eating out at restaurants and that season is now.

Sure, it’s lovely to walk into a little French bistro on a snowy day in the dead of winter, but it’s also lovely to cook soup at home in the dead of winter. Not so in the summer. In the summer, turning on the stove seems like an act of self-harm. Which is why we’ve been eating out at restaurants a lot this past week.

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