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From Milk Street Radio: Dining Dos, Dining Don’ts

Bon Appétit

Bon Appétit

Food, Arts

4.22.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This episode is from our friends at Milk Street Radio. Bon Appétit columnist Maggie Hennessy helps us navigate the new rules of dining out. Is it ever OK to take out your phone? What’s the best way to grab your server’s attention? And how fussy is too fussy? 

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0:00.0

Hi, bake glovers, it's Jesse. We wanted to share a bonus episode from our friends at Milk Street Radio.

0:07.0

Milk Street Radio goes anywhere and everywhere to ask questions and get answers about cooking, food, and culture.

0:14.2

On recent episodes, you'll hear why the best steak in the world comes from a 25-year-old cow,

0:19.8

which vegetables might be secretly intelligent,

0:23.3

and what Samin Nosrat considers her latest culinary obsession. You can find Milk Street Radio

0:28.5

wherever you get your podcasts, but today we wanted to share their interview with journalist

0:33.7

Maggie Hennessy, who has a new column at Bon Appetit called Code of Conduct,

0:38.4

and it's all about restaurant etiquette.

0:40.6

In this conversation, Christopher Kimball asked Maggie about the new rules of dining out.

0:45.3

Like, is it ever okay to take your phone out?

0:47.9

What's the best way to grab your server's attention?

0:50.3

And how fussy is too fussy.

0:52.9

Enjoy.

0:55.2

This is Most Your Radio. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. You know, going out to eat is supposed

1:00.6

to be fun, but with restaurants getting more and more expensive, our expectations are now

1:06.0

higher than ever. And the rules for dining out are complicated. For example, how should we handle ourselves

1:12.8

when we don't get our way? Here's a scene from a show that talked a lot about restaurant etiquette,

1:18.2

HBO's curb your enthusiasm. I really like it. Hello everybody. I will be your server for today.

1:24.6

What can I get started for you guys? Thicken scrambled eggs. Yes, me too.

1:28.3

Yeah, we have pancakes.

1:29.3

We are actually already onto the lunch menu.

1:32.3

What?

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