I encourage you to read their funny, thoughtful year-end responses in the "Year in Eater" story stream here, too. Thanks as always to Eater Boston for including me in this feature every year, and to my fellow Boston food-geek writers for their ongoing insightful, valuable and entertaining work. So here is my 2016 year in review with some thoughts on what's ahead in 2017.
and look ahead to trends in the New Year. But I can offer up an easy one: reprinting my contribution to Eater Boston's annual survey of local food writers, where we recount our past year of dining and drinking all over Greater Boston - our favorite new places, reliable old standbys, saddest closings, etc. Researching and writing my biweekly reviews for The Improper Bostonian (on top of a day job in an unrelated field) doesn't leave me much spare time to write here. I don't pen many original essays for this blog: it mainly exists as a place for people to find links to my professionally-published restaurant reviews, food/drink features, and occasional interviews by other outlets.
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