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Never ask the front desk at your hotel for a dinner recommendation. If possible, ask anyone else to weigh in. The bellhop, your taxi driver, the barista at Starbucks, Yelp, Chowhound, etc. The best recommendations come from people who are actually living and working in the area. The concierge at the hotel will always orient toward broad, tourist-pacifying tastes. The food will be edible, but forgettable. They'll never tell you about the super tasty hole-in-the-wall joint three blocks away. | Never ask the front desk at your hotel for a dinner recommendation. If possible, ask anyone else to weigh in. The bellhop, your taxi driver, the barista at Starbucks, Yelp, Chowhound, etc. The best recommendations come from people who are actually living and working in the area. (TripAdvisor tells you what people who ''don't'' live there think.) The concierge at the hotel will always orient toward broad, tourist-pacifying tastes. The food will be edible, but forgettable. They'll never tell you about the super tasty hole-in-the-wall joint three blocks away. | ||
= Staying healthy = | = Staying healthy = | ||