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At 8pm the restaurant is empty. That is not the restaurant's fault.
Lunch
13:00 – 16:00
Dinner
20:00 – 23:30
What the numbers don't tell you
Locals mostly sit down between 9 and 10pm. Eating at 7:30pm means an empty room and a kitchen that has only just started: you leave thinking the place was no good, when the only thing wrong was the hour. Waiting sixty minutes changes the restaurant completely.
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Five hours apart, same continent
When people sit down to dinner, from the country that eats earliest to the one that eats latest.
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